Building Community
The HistoryMakers seeks to foster an engaged learning community of educators, and encourages the submission of examples of the uses of The HistoryMakers Digital Archive and curriculum materials in the classroom. Over time, it is our hope that this learning community will grow organically to help The HistoryMakers in:
- • Fostering a social network comprised of users of the Digital Archive and encouraging the sharing of resources and helpful information.
- • Modeling and piloting modes of interaction with teachers and faculty, in order to foster broader engagement with The HistoryMakers content.
Submit your examples of integrating The HistoryMakers Digital Archive.
Higher Education Advisory Board
Created under the auspices of a 2016 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The HistoryMakers Higher Education Advisory Board consists of academic administrators, scholars, faculty, librarians, archivists, and digital humanities experts. The goal of this Advisory Board is to forge a relationship between The HistoryMakers and the higher education community, as well as to increase awareness and usage of The HistoryMakers archive and The HistoryMakers Digital Archive in academia. This includes uses both inside and outside the classroom, distance learning and online education, public programming, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course), course management systems, digital humanities projects, exhibitions, research projects and other scholarly pursuits.
The work of this advisory board focuses building a sustainable presence for The HistoryMakers in college and university research and teaching, and will develop a community of engaged academic users. Representatives from each of The HistoryMakers more than fifty college and university partners make up the advisory board, and to date, three in-person meetings have been held – April 2016, February 2017, and February 2018 – with a fourth meeting upcoming. The HistoryMakers Higher Education Advisory Board is organized into three subcommittees:
Members of The HistoryMakers Teaching & Learning Committee represent faculty and administrators from a broad range of subject areas and disciplines. Ranging from academic deans to professional organization administrators and doctoral fellows, the Teaching & Learning Committee seeks to frame The HistoryMakers interaction with scholars and its engagement with trends and concerns in the scholarly arena.
Projects of the Teaching & Learning Committee have included the integration of The HistoryMakers Digital Archive into courses at Harvard University, Brandeis University, and the University of Richmond on African American experiences with the law, Sociology, and classical theatre, respectively. Examples can be browsed, by subject discipline, under TEACHING & LEARNING.
American Historical Association
James Grossman; Executive Director
American University
Mary Ellen Curtin; Associate Professor; Critical Race, Gender and Culture Studies Collaborative
Arkansas State University
Cherisse Jones-Branch; James and Wanda Lee Vaughn Endowed Professor of History, Director, A-STATE Digital Press
Boston University
Walter Fluker; Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Ethical Leadership
Saida Grundy; Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies
Susan Mizruchi; Professor of the Humanities; Director, Boston University Center for Humanities
Brandeis University
Joel Christensen; Professor of Classics
Karen Hansen; Director, Women's Studies Research Center, Professor of Sociology & Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Anita Hill; University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Wangui Mugai; Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Race, Science and Society
Carleton College
Charisse Burden-Stelly; Assistant Professor; Africana Studies and Political Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Shawn Alfonso-Wells; Adjunct Professor of History
M. Stephanie Murray; Director & Academic Advisor, Assistant Teaching Professor, BXA Intercollege Degree Programs
Avigail Oren; Adjunct Professor, History
Richard Scheines; Dean, Professor of Philosophy
Steven Schlossman; Professor of History; Director of Undergraduate Studies
Case Western Reserve University
Joy R. Bostic; Associate Professor; Founding Director, African and African American Studies Program
Chicago State University
Lionel Kimble; Associate Professor of History
College of William & Mary
Jody Allen; Assistant Professor; History
Adrienne Petty; Associate Professor; History
Steve Prince; Director of Engagement, Distinguished Artist In Residence; Muscarelle Museum of Art
Cornell University
Lynn Perry Wooten; David J. Nolan Dean, Dyson School; Professor, Management and Organizations
Dominican University
Douglas Keberlein-Gutierrez; Associate Professor; History
Chavella Pittman; Associate Professor of Sociology
Duke University
Mark Anthony Neal; James B. Duke Professor of African and African American Studies; Chair
Emory University
Michelle Gordon; Senior Lecturer in the Department of African American Studies
Dwight McBride; Provost
Harvard University
Jarvis Givens; Assistant Professor, Education; Suzanne Young Murray Assistant Professor
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham; Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies; Chair
Khalil Muhammad; Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy, HKS; Suzanne Young Murray Professor, Radcliffe
Howard University
Greg Carr; Associate Professor and Chair | Department of Afro-American Studies
Roger Caruth; Lecturer, School of Communications
Lorenzo Morris; Professor, Department of Political Science
Catherine Quinlan; Assistant Professor, Science Education
Johns Hopkins University
Kali-Ahset Amen; Associate Director; Assistant Research Professor
Johnson C. Smith University
Marsha Rhee; Associate Professor; English
Lesley University
Tatiana Cruz; Assistant Professor; American History
Kazuyo Kubo; Associate Professor; Sociology
Morgan State University
Denise Davison; Assistant Professor; Social Work
Melissa Littlefield; Associate Professor, Social Work; Chair
New York University
Pamela Newkirk; Professor, Journalism
David Levering Lewis; Professor Emeritus
Northeastern University
Victoria Cain; Assistant Professor; History
Northwestern University
Ava Thompson Greenwell; Professor, Journalism
Jonathan Holloway; Provost
Ohio State University
Jackie Blount; Professor; Educational Studies
Linda James Myers; Professor, African American and African Studies
R. Joseph Parrott; Assistant Professor, History
Princeton University
Kinohi Nishikawa; Assistant Professor; English
Rice University
Marcia Walker-McWilliams; Associate Director, Programs for the Center for Civic Leadership
Rutgers University
Tim Eatman; Associate Professor, Urban Education; Dean, Honors Living-Learning Community
Savannah State University
Kisha Cunningham; Assistant Professor, School Of Teacher Education
Anthony Di Lorenzo; Assistant Professor; History
Simmons University
Brian Norman; Professor, English; Dean, Gwen Ifill College of Media, Arts, and Humanities
Jessica Parr; Adjunct Professor of History
Janie Ward; Professor and Department Chair, Africana Studies
Smith College
Paula Giddings; Elizabeth A. Woodson Professor Emerita of Africana Studies
Southeast Missouri State University
Joel P. Rhodes; Professor; History
Stanford University
Shelley Fisher Fishkin; Joseph S. Atha Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English
Texas Southern University
Tomiko Meeks; Professor; History
Brittany Slatton; Professor of Sociology
United States Air Force Academy
Lt. Col. John Roche; Director of Academics, History
University of Alaska-Anchorage
Ian Hartman; Associate Professor; History
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
Kevin Butler; Associate Professor of History
John D. Foster; Associate Professor; Sociology
University of Illinois, Chicago
Jane Rhodes; Department Head, Professor of African American Studies
University of Iowa
Sarah Bond; Assistant Professor of Classics
University of Massachusetts Boston
Layla Brown-Vincent; Assistant Professor; Africana Studies
Tony Van Der Meer; Senior Lecturer; Africana Studies
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Traci Parker; Assistant Professor; Afro-American Studies
University of Michigan
Joel Howell; Victor C. Vaughan Professor of the History of Medicine
Earl Lewis; Professor, Director, Center for Social Solutions
University of Pennsylvania
Marybeth Gasman; Judy & Howard Berkowitz Professor of Education
University of Richmond
Patrice Rankine; Professor, Classics; Dean, School of Arts & Sciences
University of Virginia
Theresa Davis; Associate Professor; Cross Cultural Performance
Michael Gerard Mason; Assistant Dean, African American Affairs; Director, Luther Porter Jackson Black Cultural Center
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Nan Kim; Associate Professor, Director of Public History
Valdosta State University
Tameka Hobbs; Coordinator of African American Studies & Associate Professor of History
Virginia Commonwealth University
Brian Daugherity; Associate Professor; History
Nicole Turner; Assistant Professor, Department of History
Washington University in St. Louis
Jack Kirkland; Associate Professor, Social Work
Members of The HistoryMakers Digital Humanities Committee are made up of librarians, faculty, and researchers, focused solely on exploring methods to provide more context for The HistoryMakers collection, and to provide further entry points for students and researchers, using cutting edge digital techniques and data analytics. Led initially by work produced out of the Yale University Digital Humanities Lab, this committee works collaboratively across institutions to conceive and implement projects that offer new ways of understanding and engaging with The HistoryMakers content, and that will surface latent themes and characteristics of the Collection.
Examples of the Digital Humanities Committee’s work include a text-modeling experiment using transcripts from The HistoryMakers Collection (http://dh.library.yale.edu/projects/hm/) generated by Yale University’s Digital Humanites Lab. The 25-topic model used machine algorithms to explore themes based on word frequency and co-occurrence. Further examples can be found under TEACHING & LEARNING.
Boston University
Vika Zafrin; Digital Scholarship Librarian
Carnegie Mellon University
Mike Christel; Teaching Professor; Entertainment Technology Center
Howard University
Lopez Matthews; Digital Preservation Librarian
Michigan State University
Julian Carlos Chambliss; Professor; English, History
Rutgers University
Krista White; Digital Humanities Librarian and Head, Media Services
Stanford University
Hannah Frost; Manager, Digital Library Product & Service Management
Glen Worthey; Digital Humanities Librarian Co-Lead of The Center For Interdisciplinary Digital Research
University of Iowa
Thomas Keegan; Head, Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio
University of Richmond
Lauren Tilton; Visiting Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities
University of Virginia
John Unsworth; Dean of Libraries, University Librarian, Professor of English
Yale University
Catherine DeRose; Digital Humanities Lab Manager
Peter Leonard; Director, Digital Humanities Lab
Members of The HistoryMakers Library & Archives Committee are made up of librarians, archivists, and library administrators at each of The HistoryMakers partner institutions. Rather than serving solely as a database for partner institutions, The HistoryMakers also seeks to facilitate connections that will enrich the physical collections of partner libraries, as well as exploring mechanisms for connecting The HistoryMakers oral history interviews with other oral history collections or supporting contextual materials.
Projects of the Library & Archives Committee have included working with The HistoryMakers on the re-institution of a training program for minority archivists at Yale University, Harvard University, and Emory University; facilitating the donation of the personal papers of HistoryMakers like Angela Davis (Schlesinger Library), Daphne Maxwell Reid (Northwestern University), and Senator Emil Jones (University of Illinois, Chicago) to institutional repositories for preservation.
Boston University
Vita Paladino; Director, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center
Brandeis University
Matthew Sheehy; University Librarian
Carnegie Mellon University
Erica Linke; Associate Dean & Director of Collections and Information Access
Columbia University
John Tofanelli; Research Collections and Services Librarian, Humanities/History
Cornell University
Eric Acree; Director, John Henrik Clarke Africana Library
Emory University
Yolanda Cooper; University Librarian
Harvard University
Marilyn Dunn; Executive Director of the Schlesinger Library and Librarian of the Radcliffe Institute
Johnson C. Smith University
Monika Rhue; Director of Library Services and Curation
Northwestern University
Kathleen Bethel; African American Studies Librarian
Charla Wilson; Archivist for the Black Experience
Princeton University
Steven Knowlton; Librarian for History and African American Studies
Rutgers University
Consuella Askew; Director, Dana Library
University of Arkansas
Carolyn H. Allen; Dean of Libraries
University of Chicago
Brenda Johnson; University Librarian
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Harriett Green; Head of Scholarly Communication and Publishing; Scholarly Communication and Publishing Librarian, Associate Professor
University of Iowa
Dan Johnson; Consulting Archivist
University of Pennsylvania
Nicholas Okrent; Coordinating Bibliographer and Librarian for the Humanities, Bibliographer and Liaison for World History and Humanities
University of Virginia
Sony Prosper; Resident Librarian; Special Collections
Virginia Commonwealth University
John Ulmschneider; University Librarian
HIGHER EDUCATION ADVISORY BOARD MEETING MATERIALS
The HistoryMakers 3rd Annual Higher Education Advisory Board Meeting – Reaching Faculty & Students
February 11-12, 2018; New York City
48 Attendees from 30 of 35 subscribing institutions.
Prompts:
- SHARE ways that they have already used The HistoryMakers Digital Archive in the classroom;
- ENGAGE in brainstorming around increasing penetration within the classroom and in academic research;
- CONCEIVE of a use for The HistoryMakers Digital Archive in classroom instruction or digital humanities research; and
- COMMIT to incorporating The HistoryMakers Digital Archive into their classroom instruction or research.
The HistoryMakers 2nd Annual Higher Education Advisory Board Meeting – Reaching Institutions & Libraries
February 5-6, 2017; New York City
40 Attendees from 19 of 19 subscribing institutions.
Focus Questions:
- How can The HistoryMakers Digital Archive be integrated into research, teaching and learning across academic disciplines?
- How can The HistoryMakers continue to secure further subscriptions to The HistoryMakers Digital Archive sustainably?
The HistoryMakers 1st Annual Higher Education Advisory Board Meeting – Reaching Higher Ed
April 25-26, 2016; New York City
23 Attendees from 9 of 10 subscribing institutions.
Focus Questions:
- Who should The HistoryMakers target in the following communities at your institution or others?
- Faculty
- Students
- Administration
- Alumni
- Lifelong Learners
- Library/Archives
- What organizations/conferences should The HistoryMakers engage with?
Past Initiatives
In addition to its curriculum materials and The HistoryMakers Digital Archive, The HistoryMakers has also held several programs training educators and archivists on the use of The HistoryMakers Collection and to work in African American archives. These programs included a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for Teachers, the Institute of Museum and Library Services funded Increasing African American Diversity in Archives: The HistoryMakers Fellowship, Mentoring, Training and Placement Institute, and The HistoryMakers Education Institute, in partnership with the DePaul Center for Urban Education.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for Teachers
From Sunday, July 8, 2012 to Friday, August 3, 2012, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The HistoryMakers held its 2nd NEH Summer Institute on the subject of African American Political History: From Reconstruction to the Present. Designed as a rigorous, month long immersion program, The Institute was developed to examine the political development of African Americans from the period of antebellum America through the presidency of Barack Obama defined by four major eras: 1) African-American Politics from Reconstruction to the First World War (1865-1917); 2) African-American Politics through Two World Wars and Its Aftermath (1917-1954); 3) Black Freedom Movement (1954-1975); and 4) Post-Civil Rights and the New Generation of Black Politics (1970 to present). In a competitive process, teachers from across the country applied for 25 openings as NEH Summer Scholars. These Summer Scholars spent the month studying about African American history under the instruction of nationally recognized scholars including: Bruce Laurie, Charles Payne, Christopher Reed, Eric Arnesen, Rhonda Williams, Cheryl Greenberg, Michael Dawson, and Adolph Reed.
Read the 2012 Final ReportInstitute of Museum and Library Services funded Increasing African American Diversity in Archives: The HistoryMakers Fellowship, Mentoring, Training and Placement Institute
Increasing African American Diversity in Archives: The HistoryMakers Fellowship, Mentoring, Training and Placement Institute was conceived as a program to increase the number of African American archivists and archivists qualified to work with African American collections by a total of 12 archival professionals. The purpose of the grant is to increase the diversity of the archival profession, and to work towards increasing the total number of African American archivists’ and those interested in working with African American archives and collections.
The institute’s goals include: 1) increasing the number of highly-skilled African American archivists working in African American archives; 2) increasing the accessibility of African American historical materials; 3) increasing the visibility of the archival profession and African American historical collections; 4) creating a network of professionals with in-depth knowledge of the nation’s African American historical collections; and 5) enabling partner institutions to effectively recruit and train African American archivists.
This program was later continued in partnership with Yale University, Emory University, and Harvard University.
Read the Reports HereThe HistoryMakers Education Institute, in partnership with the DePaul Center for Urban Education
The HistoryMakers Institute was a program designed to increase students’ knowledge and appreciation of the role of African Americans in history. Designed during spring 2003, it was implemented during summer 2003 and the subsequent academic year. Forty teachers were recruited to participate representing 20 Chicago public elementary and high schools.
The program included five components: development of a curriculum guide and resources to integrate The HistoryMakers in the core curriculum at upper elementary and high school in language arts and social studies; a week-long teacher workshop during summer to educate teachers about the importance of developing students’ understanding and appreciation of that history; implementation of instructional activities by teachers; classroom visits by individual HistoryMakers to provide opportunities for students to learn first-hand about their experiences; quarterly workshops to reinforce teacher involvement and provide opportunities for teachers to collaborate on implementation strategies.
Read the 2004 Final ReportSubscribing Institutions
