Plateau Peoples’ Web Portal, Co-Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation Associate Dean for Digital Initiatives and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries Speaker, Panel 3, Why Partner?
Trevor James Bond is the Co-Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation (CDSC) and the Associate Dean for Digital Initiatives and Special...
Charlayne Hunter-Gault Professor of Journalism and Director of MFA Program in Narrative Nonfiction, University of Georgia Author of Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston Speaker, Panel 1, Scholars Report on Research Experience
Valerie Boyd is author of the critically acclaimed biography Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston, winner of the Southern Book Award...
Author, Journalist, Chairman of the Board, National Archives Foundation Radcliffe Workshop Advisory Board Member Moderator, Panel 1, Scholars Report on Research Experience
Author and journalist A’Lelia Bundles is at work on her fifth book, The Joy Goddess of Harlem: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance, a...
Curator of African American Collections, Rose Library, Emory University Speaker, Panel 2, Black Research Collections: Successes and Challenges
In 1997 Randall K. Burkett was hired as the first curator for African American collections at Emory University, and for the past twenty years he has been...
Chief, Office of Partnerships and Philanthropy, National Park Service Radcliffe Workshop Advisory Board Member Moderator, Panel 3, Why Partner?
Reginald Chapple is the Division Chief of the Office of Partnerships and Philanthropic Stewardship for the National Park Service. He is responsible for...
Associate Professor and Director, African American & Africana Studies, University of Kentucky Speaker, Panel 1, Scholars Report on Research Experience
Anastasia Curwood is an Associate Professor of History and Director of African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. A native of...
Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi Visiting Scholar in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University Speaker, Panel 1, Scholars Report on Research Experience
Garrett Felber is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi and a Visiting Scholar in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in...
Chair of Women's Research & Resource Center/Comparative Women's Studies, Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies, Spelman College Radcliffe Workshop Advisory Board Member Keynote speaker, The Past is Present
Beverly Guy-Sheftall is founding director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center (since 1981) and Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies at...
Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair and Head of Special Collections, Penn State University Radcliffe Workshop Advisory Board Member
Since March 2016, Athena Jackson has been the Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair and Head of the Eberly Family Special Collections Library at The Pennsylvania State...
Founder of the Internet Archive Keynote Speaker, The Past and Present in the Future
Brewster Kahle, Digital Librarian and Founder of the Internet Archive, has been working to provide universal access to all knowledge for more than twenty-...
Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Professor of History, Harvard University Speaker, Opening Remarks
Jane Kamensky is professor of history at Harvard University and the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger...
Principal Investigator of Umbra Search Givens Collection of African American Literature Curator, University of Minnesota Libraries Speaker, Panel 3, Why Partner?
Cecily Marcus is the curator of the Givens Collection of African-American Literature at the University of Minnesota, and Director of the new...
Digital Production Librarian, Howard University Libraries and The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center Speaker, Panel 2, Black Research Collections: Successes and Challenges
Lopez Matthews is an Adjunct Professor at Coppin State University where he teaches courses covering United States, African American, African and World...