Partner: National Wildlife Research Center
Project Principal Investigator: Dr. Sarah Payne
Researcher: Emily O’Brien Ainsworth
Timeline: 2015-2016
This project facilitates the preservation, compilation, digitization and access to the Wildlife Services and National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC) image collection using ContentDM software. The project includes organizing the current image database, creating public collections, organizing and uploading historic research images/slides with metadata, and preserving and processing digital images and slide collections.

"Confinement in the Land of Enchantment”—Historic Markers, Publication, and Website

Partner: Japanese-American Confinement Sites Grant Program, National Park Service
Additional Partners: New Mexico Japanese American Citizens League, private donors
Project Principal Investigators: Dr. Sarah Payne, Dr. Andrew Russell (Central New Mexico Community College)
Researchers: Tessa Moening (project lead; 2014-), Kellie Nicholas (2015-), Yancy Bush (2015)
Timeline: 2014-
This Phase II implementation project is an interpretation and education project to increase public education and outreach about Japanese-American confinement sites in New Mexico. An earlier Phase I planning grant received by the New Mexico chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League (NMJACL) resulted in primary research, oral history interviews, and design plans. Phase II builds upon the research conducted in Phase I in order to place historical markers, compile an outreach publication, and design website pages and an Esri Story Map. This Phase II interpretation and education project focuses on the World War II Japanese American confinement sites located in New Mexico, including at Santa Fe, Fort Stanton, Old Raton Ranch (Baca Ranch), and Camp Lordsburg. The goal of the project is to educate a wide and diverse audience of New Mexicans about the experiences of detainees, and to inspire thought and conversation about the projects core theme of identity.
Press Documents:
-- “Project explores New Mexico prison camps for Japanese-Americans during WWII” by Elaine D. Briseno, Albuquerque Journal, December 20, 2015.
-- “CSU historians examine Japanese-American confinement camps in New Mexico” by Jeff Dodge, Source, Colorado State University, December 15, 2015.
-- “Japanese-Americans want remembrance of internment camps” by Robert Richardson, KOAT News, Albuquerque, December 10, 2015.
-- “National Park Service Grant Project: Confinement in the Land of Enchantment (CLOE) Updates” Sagebrush Shinbun, New Mexico Japanese American Citizens League Newsletter, September 2015.
-- “National Park Service Grant Project: Confinement in the Land of Enchantment” Sagebrush Shinbun, New Mexico Japanese American Citizens League Newsletter, June 2015.
-- “Past by” by Sarah Payne, TEDxCSU, November 7, 2014.
-- “CSU Assistant Professor Sarah Payne talks about Confinement in the Land of Enchantment” by Katie Schmidt, The Rocky Mountain Collegian, July 28, 2014.
-- National Park Service Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program, JACS Grant Program FY2014 Awards - pages 5-6.