Public History Project Proposals

Project proposal for Fall 2023 Introduction to Public History Seminar. Question: What role did Fannie Barrier Williams play in the settlement house movement in Chicago? Abstract: Jane Addams is a ready example of the American Settlement house reform movement in the early 1900s. Given the impact Barrier Williams had on social reform in Chicago, her… Continue reading Kristin Jorgensen’s “Organized Kindness”: The Settlement House Movement in FBW’s Chicago

Project proposal for Fall 2023 Introduction to Public History Seminar. Questions: Abstract: The arts exist in all cultures and are the intuitive representation of society’s beliefs, and traditions, their essential values, and proclamations of power and status. Art can inspire and connect people with their emotions and identities and circulate a message.[1] Fannie Barrier Williams… Continue reading Joseph Golden’s FBW & the Refining Influence of Art

Project proposal for Fall 2023 Introduction to Public History Seminar. Question: The key question that this project aims to address is, “What does Fannie Barrier Williams suggest as an alternative path toward social equality through the use of industrial education?” Abstract: Compromise and New Ideas: A New Path Toward Racial Equality Between Booker T. Washington… Continue reading Luka DeLara’s FBW Between Booker T. Washington & W.E.B. Du Bois

Project proposal for Fall 2023 Introduction to Public History Seminar. Question: How did Fannie Barrier Williams contribute to the discussion among black elites about how African Americans should navigate the harsh reality of the Jim Crow Era? Abstract: The purpose of this project is to serve as a pool of resources that can be utilized… Continue reading Patrick Donahue’s FBW & the Future of Black America

Project proposal for Fall 2023 Introduction to Public History Seminar. Question: The key question this project will explore is: How did social settlement, with particular focus on the work done in the 1900s immediately before the Great Migration in 1910, prepare northern cities, with particular focus on Chicago, for what was to come? The more… Continue reading Conor Caterino’s FBW & the Settlement House Movement

Project proposal for Fall 2023 Introduction to Public History Seminar. Question/Abstract: The main question that will be raised in my project is who is responsible for the oppression of Black women as seen through the lens of Fannie Barrier Williams’ essay “The Colored Girl.” Narrative: Fannie Barrier Williams, the first Black graduate of SUNY Brockport,… Continue reading Madison Cosentino’s Black Women & Oppression

Project proposal for Fall 2023 Introduction to Public History Seminar. Questions/Abstract: How can the modern world best honor the thinkers of the past, whose ideas led us to where we are as a collective society today? Fannie Barrier Williams was one such thinker, and someone who’s speaking and ideas were revolutionary for their time, and… Continue reading Andrew Chalachan’s Honoring Visionaries

Project proposal for Fall 2023 Introduction to Public History Seminar. Questions: How does Fannie Barrier Williams articulate the unique challenges faced by African American women within the broader context of American womanhood? How do we address these issues and bring it to the attention of the outside community of African Americans? More specifically African American… Continue reading Cy Carter’s FBW & African American Womanhood

Project proposal for Fall 2023 Introduction to Public History Seminar. Questions: As I look closely into my project and how important Fannie Barrier Williams was to different movements of the late 19th and 20th century, many questions arise from the project. What did it mean for women to fight for their rights? What purpose did… Continue reading Marie D’Ambrosio’s Look at Women’s History from The Perspective of a “Colored Girl”

Project proposal for Fall 2023 Introduction to Public History Seminar. Abstract: My proposal is the development of an in-person exhibit in Brockport detailing the life of Fannie Barrier Williams as well as how her life and work overlapped with the emergence of sociology as a discipline, and the overarching theme of intersectionality present within her… Continue reading Emma Galante’s FBW & the Emergence of Sociology

Project proposal for Fall 2023 Introduction to Public History Seminar. Question: How do we understand Fannie Barrier-Williams as both a product and a catalyst of her environment? How do we understand her views in both defying and affirming the prejudices of her time? How and where does her own agency come into play?    Narrative: A… Continue reading Bailey Hartman’s Walk Through Humanity with FBW

Project proposal for Fall 2023 Introduction to Public History Seminar. Questions/Abstract: How are racism and sexism not just forms of prejudice but are embedded into social structures? To what extent do intentions matter in the preservation of oppressive systems? Fannie Barrier Williams’s essay provides an opportunity to dissect these questions. Williams is a woman of… Continue reading Natalie Klein’s FBW as a Lens into Structural Inequality

Project proposal for Fall 2023 Introduction to Public History Seminar. Introduction/Question: The Emergence of Women in American Society:Fannie Barrier Williams and “The Smaller Economies” This project will focus on the roles of women in American society over time. By examining a woman’s place in society during the Victorian era, one key question this project will… Continue reading Emma Lissow’s FBW & “the Smaller Economies”

Project proposal for Fall 2023 Introduction to Public History Seminar. Abstract My project is an online article/interactive website analyzing historical debates in America for and against traditional and non-traditional education. “Traditional education” refers to higher education as promoted by W.E.B. Du Bois while “non-traditional education” refers to the industrial education mode favored by Booker T. Washington.… Continue reading Grace Murphy’s America & Education, Traditional & Non-Traditional

Project proposal for Fall 2023 Introduction to Public History Seminar. Key Question: How were the experiences of Black and immigrant women erased from the domestic sphere, and how do women like Fannie Barrier Williams attempt to bring them back into that sphere? Abstract: Leading up to the turn of the 20th century, catalogs, books, and… Continue reading Kristin Strong’s The Hidden Heart of the Home

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