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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