Meet the Fellows 2018
During the Woodson Institute's annual event "Meet the Fellows," we welcome new pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellows to the institute
Susan Burton: Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women
Bio:
Susan Burton is a widely recognized leader in the national criminal justice reform movement.
Ms. Burton will be discussing her book and work as an activist and advocate for incarcerated women.
She is author of the NAACP Image Award-winning book, Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women, and founder of A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project.
Meet the Fellows 2018
Reception to follow!
New York Times: "Hurricane Florence and the Displacement of African-Americans along the Carolina Coast"
Andrew Karhl publishes article in the NYT: "Hurricane Florence and the Displacement of African-Americans along the Carolina Coast"
UVA Today: 'Trailblazer' Deborah McDowell Chosen for Zintl Leadership Award
McDowell’s colleagues at the University of Virginia call her a “trailblazer,” note her collaborative activities and point to her commitment to diversify not only the faculty on Grounds, but throughout the nation.
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education: "University of Virginia to Launch a Crowdsourced Transcription Effort of Julian Bond’s Papers"
Julian Bond, the civil rights icon who taught at the University of Virginia for two decades, died in 2015. Now the university has mounted an effort to make his collection of papers, speeches, and other documents available to the world through a crowdsourced transcription effort, which will be the first step in the creation of an online digital archive.
Inside A&S: "Volunteers Gather in Classrooms and Coffeeshops to Transcribe Julian Bond’s Work"
Inside A&S: This week’s effort – dubbed “#TranscribeBond” by its organizers from UVA’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies and its partners, the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, the Center for Digital Editing, the Scholars’ Lab and Virginia Humanities – launched with Stewart and other volunteers assembling at locations on and off Grounds for a one-day, crowdsourced push to begin transcribing Bond’s work for a new public, digital archive.
UVA Today: You Can Help Put Julian Bond's Papers in an Online Archive
Civil rights icon Julian Bond fought for social justice and equality from the time he co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1960 until his death in 2015. In between those years he served in the Georgia legislature, co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center, served as chairman of the NAACP, engaged in political activism on various fronts – and taught more than 5,000 students as a University of Virginia professor.
Fall Convocation
#TRANSCRIBEBOND Crowdsourcing Event
#TRANSCRIBEBOND Crowdsourcing Event Information
Date: Wednesday, August 15, 2018 10 AM to 4:00 PM
On Wednesday, August 15, your help is needed to record the writings of civil rights leader Julian Bond in an online archive. By participating, you will ensure that future generations can engage with the writings of one of the foremost leaders of the civil rights movement.
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