Billie Jean King, Cornell West, Elizabeth Pryor, and Bob Woodward. The words interdisciplinary, collaborative, inclusive, global, and public are superimposed.

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Arica L. Coleman
Arica L. Coleman

November 14, 2024

Denying Blackness: The Enduring Legacy of the "Science" of Racial Purity in the Federal Recognition Process

4:00 p.m. (In person) 

Join us for our On Native Ground Lecture Series with Dr. Arica L. Coleman. This presentation will focus on Virginia's 1924 Racial Integrity Act, and its continuing legacy in the recognition process today.

On Native Ground

Lora Chilton
Lora Chilton

November 21, 2024

'1666: A Novel' Reading and Discussion

4:00 p.m. (In person)

A member of the Patawomeck Indian Tribe of Virginia, Lora Chilton tells the story of her people and their unlikely survival due to the courage of three Patawomeck women in 1666: A Novel.

On Native Ground

Christopher Brooks
Christopher Brooks

February 10, 2025

Dual Pandemics: HIV and the Coronavirus in Several Communities

12:00 p.m. (Online)

Christopher Brooks is Professor of Anthropology in the School of World Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, and author of Dual Pandemics: HIV and the Coronavirus in Several Communities.

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How the Humanities and STEM Can Find Common Ground in the History of Computing

Mar Hicks, PhD
Associate Professor of Data Science at the University of Virginia

Meet VCU Authors | Entitled Opinions:
Doxa After Digitality

Caddie Alford
Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing in the Department of English at VCU

Brian Daugherity

Faculty Spotlight: Brian Daugherity

Written by Maggie Unverzagt Goddard, Postdoctoral Fellow, History Dept.; Associate Director, Health Humanities Lab; Co-Director, Public Humanities Lab

 

As the Co-Director of the Public Humanities Lab at the HRC, Brian Daugherity draws on his extensive experience using collaboration as a methodology. Combining history and education, his work is not just limited to learning about the past; rather, Daugherity focuses on the past to learn important lessons and to find how it connects with the present.

Brian Daugherity's research focuses on the implementation of the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision in Virginia. He teaches courses on the History of the Civil Rights Movement, the History of Virginia, and the History of the United States since 1865. Daugherity also has taught a number of traveling courses, including an interdisciplinary class on the civil rights movement in the South, and another on the history of Virginia via a month-long boating trip down the James River.

In 2014, Daugherity co-taught “Footprints on the James: The Human and Natural History of Virginia” with James Vonesh and Dan Carr, two VCU biology professors, to explore the history and biology of the James River watershed, and how the two disciplines overlap and intersect. Along with their students, the faculty traveled a roughly 150-mile section of the James via sea kayak, canoe, raft, and bateau while backpacking and camping along the way... [Read the full spotlight]

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