Project proposal for Fall 2023 Introduction to Public History Seminar. Key Question: How was Fannie Barrier Williams a part of ongoing efforts to improve Black and women’s lives in America? Keywords: Rights, education, program of assistance, uplift, timeline, museum display. Abstract: Fannie Barrier Williams had many achievements throughout her life, as she graduated from the… Continue reading Jake Wilkins’ Timeline of FBW & Her Legacy
Michael J. Kramer
Ryan Billington’s Lesson Plan
Project proposal for Fall 2023 Introduction to Public History Seminar. Key Question: How does the life of Fannie Barrier Williams contribute to the understanding and conceptualization of Reconstruction history in America? Abstract: This project’s main goal is to bring Fannie Barrier William’s life and legacy into the classroom in order to further enrich learning and… Continue reading Ryan Billington’s Lesson Plan
Enroll in Spring 2024 FBW Project Course
Students are invited to register for the Fannie Barrier Williams Project (HST/AAS/WGS 381; HST 599). Learn about and connect your interests to the life, history, and legacies of Brockport’s own antiracist, feminist, social justice, Progressive Era activist. Create a public project; gain analytic, communication, and project management skills; build a student portfolio. The course is… Continue reading Enroll in Spring 2024 FBW Project Course
About
A public history inquiry into the life, times & lasting legacies of the Brockport resident, Brockport State Normal School graduate, educator, artist, musician, antiracist activist & women’s rights advocate. What is it? The Fannie Barrier Williams Project at the Brockport campus of the State University of New York (SUNY) explores the life, times, and lasting… Continue reading About
Projects In Development
Students and faculty at SUNY Brockport are hard at work currently on initial proposals and plans for Fannie Barrier Williams Project projects.
Fall 2023 Public History Course
Dr. Michael J. Kramer’s Fall 2023 Introduction to Public History seminar students initiate the Fannie Barrier Williams Project by developing proposals for public history projects based on essays and speeches by Fannie Barrier Williams. They will collaborate with Nicole Cesnales‘ Social Work students on how to develop culturally sensitive public history projects. Students are also… Continue reading Fall 2023 Public History Course
FBW Project Receives SUNY Brockport Diversity Fellowship
The Fannie Barrier Williams Project received a 2023-2024 SUNY Brockport Faculty Diversity Fellowship to develop cross-campus and public collaborations.
FBW Project in Upcoming Gilded Age & Progressive Era Book
As part of “Re-Placing Gilded Age and Progressive Era America,” a book project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), we are developing a short essay and selection of primary sources focused on Fannie Barrier Williams’ relationship to Brockport and Chicago. In what biographer Wanda Hendricks calls Barrier Williams’ “cross-regional mobility,” we glimpse… Continue reading FBW Project in Upcoming Gilded Age & Progressive Era Book
FBW Project Receives Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium Fellowship
The Fannie Barrier Williams Project received a Mellon Foundation-funded Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) Teaching Fellowship to develop syllabi and digital humanities pedagogy for the project.
