A view of the new sign for the Fannie Barrier Williams Liberal Arts Building at SUNY Brockport, 26 August 2024.
News
Artist Olivia Kim’s FBW Sculpture Unveiled
Photos of the 20 August 2024 unveiling and dedication ceremony for artist Olivia Kim’s new sculptural work of Fannie Barrier Williams, on view now in the lobby of the Fannie Barrier Williams Liberal Arts Building on the campus of SUNY Brockport.
Dr. Anne Macpherson Speaks at FBW Statue Unveiling
Telling the story of the Brockport-born, Progressive Era African American activist. Dr. Anne Macpherson spoke about the life and career of Fannie Barrier Williams, the Brockport-born Progressive Era women’s and civil rights activist, at SUNY Brockport on Tuesday, August 20th, 2024 to celebrate the unveiling of artist Olivia Kim’s sculpture of Williams, now located in… Continue reading Dr. Anne Macpherson Speaks at FBW Statue Unveiling
FBW Project Featured at SUNY Brockport University News Website
The Port reports on the Fannie Barrier Williams Project. Stevie Rudak reports on the yearlong Fannie Barrier Williams Project at SUNY Brockport: “Uncovering the Life of Fannie Barrier Williams: Students from five different academic departments collaborate to research Brockport’s first African American graduate,” The Port: SUNY Brockport University News, 30 April 2024.
Experiments in Public History Collaboration
Notes on cross-course collaboration between public history & graphic design for the Fannie Barrier Williams Historical Timelines. In the fall of 2023, students in history faculty member Dr. Michael J. Kramer’s Public History seminar collaborated with students in Mitch Christensen’s Typology 2 Graphic Design course to develop graphical timelines about Fannie Barrier Williams’ story and… Continue reading Experiments in Public History Collaboration
FBW Historical Timelines Exhibit Opens
Now at Drake Memorial Library, SUNY Brockport, 26 March-31 May 2024. The Fannie Barrier Williams Timelines created by students in Dr. Michael J. Kramer’s Public History seminar and Mitch Christensen’s Graphic Design course during the fall 2023 semester will be on display at Drake Memorial Library’s Lobby Gallery from March 28 to May 31, 2024.… Continue reading FBW Historical Timelines Exhibit Opens
FBW Table Tent Displays
Students in AAS/HST/WGS 381 begin work on tabletop displays of Fannie Barrier Williams quotations and explanations. Using digital annotation tool Perusall, students develop close readings of Fannie Barrier Williams’ speeches and writings. They then read secondary sources from scholars such as FBW biographer Wanda Hendricks, historians Kevin Mumford, Martha Jones, Brittany Cooper, and others to… Continue reading FBW Table Tent Displays
FBW Timelines Exhibit
01 February-25 March, 2024 @ Tower Fine Arts Building Rainbow Gallery & 28 March-31 May, 2024 @ Drake Memorial Library Lobby Gallery. The Fannie Barrier Williams Timelines created by students in Dr. Michael J. Kramer’s Public History seminar and Mitch Christensen’s Graphic Design course during the fall 2023 semester will be on display at the… Continue reading FBW Timelines Exhibit
Timelines on the Big Screen
The Fannie Barrier Williams timelines created by students in SUNY Brockport historian Dr. Michael J. Kramer’s Public History seminar and Mitch Christensen’s Art Department Graphic Design course in Fall of 2023 are currently featured on the big screen in the lobby of the Fannie Barrier Williams Liberal Arts Building on the SUNY Brockport campus. The… Continue reading Timelines on the Big Screen
Students Visit Brockport Museum of Local History
Fannie Barrier Williams Project students visit the Brockport Museum of Local History. On Tuesday, March 5, 2024, students in Dr. Michael J. Kramer’s Fannie Barrier Williams Project course (AAS/HST/WGS 381) visited the Brockport Museum of Local History, directed by SUNY Brockport History and Museum Studies and Public History alum Fiona Stockdale, who is now the… Continue reading Students Visit Brockport Museum of Local History
Fannie’s 169th Birthday Party & Black History Month Celebration
Monday, 12 February 2024, 11am-2pm, Table in Front of the Square in Seymour Union.
Fannie Barrier Williams Project Course Syllabus
Syllabus for Dr. Michael J. Kramer’s course, African and African American Studies/History/Women and Gender Studies 381 @ SUNY Brockport, Spring 2024. Syllabus—The Fannie Barrier Williams Project.
Fall 2023 Visual Timeline Collaborations
Created in Mitch Christensen’s Fall 2023 Typology 2 Graphic Design course in collaboration with students in Michael J. Kramer’s Introduction to Public History seminar. Students in Mitch Christensen‘s Fall 2023 Typology 2 Graphic Design course in the Art Department at SUNY Brockport drew upon historical data compiled by students in Michael J. Kramer’s Fall 2023… Continue reading Fall 2023 Visual Timeline Collaborations
Introduction: Fall 2023 FBW Public History Project Proposals
Fall 2023 Introduction to Public History students complete proposals for projects focused on essays by Fannie Barrier Williams. In the fall of 2023, students in Dr. Kramer’s Introduction to Public History seminar completed project proposals for exhibitions, websites, lesson plans, monuments, memorials, and other public history concepts. Each one is driven by one essay written… Continue reading Introduction: Fall 2023 FBW Public History Project Proposals
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
Participate
The core idea of the Fannie Barrier Williams Project is to learn more about this significant but underappreciated figure’s life, times, and legacies. We embrace multidisciplinary approaches. We encourage faculty, students, staff, and community partners to connect their own interests to Fannie Barrier Williams’ biography, her historical context, or her multifaceted significance. Fannie Barrier Williams… Continue reading Participate
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.
