The HistoryMakers Awards 2023-2024 Innovation in Pedagogy and
Teaching Fellowships to Twelve
Outstanding Teacher-Scholars
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Now in its fourth year, The HistoryMakers Innovations in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellowship is designed to foster classroom innovation and teaching and to diversify curricula while furthering student learning and research skills during the upcoming academic year. Award recipients will receive a $7,500 award and the opportunity to demonstrate how faculty can creatively incorporate The HistoryMakers Digital Archive into a fall 2023 semester course and syllabus.
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Lisa Bratton
Associate Professor, Department of History
and Political Science
Tuskegee University
Project Description: Bratton's course, “Women in the History of the United States,” will use The HistoryMakers Digital Archive to help students focus on the diverse roles, challenges, and achievements of women in the United States. The history of women will be studied in the context of their interactions with the political, social, familial, religious and aesthetic institutions of American society and how they affected and were affected by these institutions.
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George Daniels
Associate Professor, Department of
Journalism and Creative Media
University of Alabama
Project Description: Daniels's course, “Race, Gender and Media,” will use The HistoryMakers Digital Archive to help students tackle issues at the intersection of race and gender in the U.S. mass media and understand how media industries are responding to pressures to diversify their workforces and their media images while linking the experiences and accomplishments of African Americans to the larger study of mass media.
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Jana Duckett
Assistant Professor, Department of
Strategic Communication
Morgan State University
Project Description: Duckett's course, “Media Literacy in a Diverse World,” will use The HistoryMakers Digital Archive to help students explore and organize the effects of media into different information revolutions or historical shifts in society, while examining the intersection of media, culture, and technology and the diverse impact they have in different societies with a special interpretive emphasis placed on understanding how media shape perceptions about race, religion, gender, ability, sexual orientation, etc.
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Deborwah Faulk
Assistant Professor, Sociology and
Anthropology
James Madison University
Project Description: Faulk's course, “Sociology of Black Families,” will use The HistoryMakers Digital Archive to help students explore and critique foundational and contemporary theories about and analyses of Black families with a particular emphasis on Black American families. Drawing on sociology, Black/Africana studies, psychology, criminology, and African American history and literature, this course approaches the study of Black families through an interdisciplinary lens.
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Robert Hanserd
Associate Professor, Humanities, History,
and Social Sciences
Columbia College Chicago
Project Description: Hanserd's course, “The Black Arts Movement,” will use The HistoryMakers Digital Archive to help students investigate filmmakers, dramatists, writers, critics, and others' engagement with the role of the artist in the making of cultural revolution and authenticity and axiology relative to a black aesthetic while examining local, national, and international features of the Black Arts Movement and related historical actors and events.
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Alexa Harris
Assistant Professor, History and
Interdisciplinary Studies
Norfolk State University
Project Description: Harris's course, “Professional Development,” will use The HistoryMakers Digital Archive to help students explore an array of career disciplines through the lens of Sankofa; looking to African American leaders of the past to serve as a roadmap to guide students towards successful futures while they engage in exercises focused on transferrable skills in the arenas of leadership, organization communication, and intra/interpersonal communication.
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Anna Kaplan
Professorial Lecturer, Department of
History
American University
Project Description: Kaplan's course, “Women's Voices Through Time,” will use The HistoryMakers Digital Archive to help students focus on distinctive contributions of women, particularly African American women, to Western artistic and intellectual traditions; significant articulations of human experience; how such traditions became established; and how women, despite obstacles, have produced lasting works of ideas and imagination.
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Nafeesa Muhammad
Assistant Professor, History Department
Spelman College
Project Description: Muhammad’s course, “Islam in United States History,” will use The HistoryMakers Digital Archive to help students examine the development of Islam in the seventh century and its early influence in ancient Africa, South America, and North America. Special emphasis will be given to the dynamism of Islam, its transformation in the United States, its adaptation to the African American experience and its development among immigrant communities.
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Ezelle Sanford III
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Carnegie Mellon University
Project Description: Sanford's course, “Introduction to African American History: Black Americans and the World,” will use The HistoryMakers Digital Archive to help students survey the history of Black Americans from a global perspective, beginning with early modern African civilizations, the transatlantic slave trade, the global age of revolutions, the implementation of transnational regimes of racial segregation, to the growth of transnational movements for civil and human rights.
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Yehuda Silverman
Instructor, Civic Education Project
School of Education and Social Policy Northwestern University
Project Description: Silverman's course, “Leadership for Today,” will use The HistoryMakers Digital Archive to help students explore how peace is conceptualized locally, globally, and digitally and to examine a deeper understanding of the challenging dynamics surrounding historical and current events with a focus on discovering diverse leaders beyond the mainstream media and their contributions towards peace.
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Shively Smith
Assistant Professor of New Testament
Boston University School of Theology
Project Description: Smith's course, “Howard Thurman: Biblical Interpreter for the Public Square,” will use The HistoryMakers Digital Archive to help students explore the life and vision of Howard Thurman from the perspective of “Thurman as an interpreter" to examine his interpretive actions as a religious leader and reflect on our interpretation practices and to expand understanding about the historical moments, people, and institutions Thurman engages and influences.
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Hassan Zamir
Associate Professor, School of Information
Studies
Dominican University
Project Description: Zamir's course, “Foundations of Information Technology,” will use The HistoryMakers Digital Archive to help students explore the principles and application of information technologies and learn about the history and contributions of African Americans in the field of information technology. Additionally, students will critically examine the ethical and societal implications of information technology, with a focus on issues of access and inclusion.
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