Spring 2024 Recap

For Spring 2024, the Simmons Center hosted a wide array of activities and events. Additionally, the Center:

• Convened meetings in Jamaica and at Brown of the UNESCO drafting committee of the forthcoming report The Cost of Global Anti-Black Racism

• Launched a new Slavery & Finance Research Cluster with a series of meetings

• Hosted Dr. Gina South for a virtual event entitled “Dismantling Structural Racism from within the Academy: The Fruit of Dreaming,” with the Race, Medicine, and Social Justice Research Cluster

• Co-organized the fourth gathering of the Reimagining New England Histories community and tribal advisory board at Mystic Seaport Museum which included a special preview of the Entwined exhibition

Learn more about these and other Spring semester events on our website.

Fond Farewells

Congratulations to our Recent Grads!

Helena Evans, ’24 International and Public Affairs & Africana Studies, Symbolic Slave Garden Caretaker

Dan Everton, AM ’24 Public Humanities, Unfinished Conversations Researcher and Curatorial Support

Gustav Hall, ’24 English, Unfinished Conversations Researcher and Curatorial Support

Sarah Ogundare, ’24 International and Public Affairs, Carceral State Reading Group Co-Facilitator

Best Wishes to our Fellows

Alycia Hall, Simmons Center/JCB Joint Postdoctoral Research Associate in Slavery and Justice

Leonora Masini, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Slavery and the Public Humanities

Gabriel Regalado, ACLS Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Research Associate

Opportunities

Opportunities at Brown University

Assistant Director | Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative (NAISI)

The Assistant Director will participate in the development and implementation of NAISI initiatives  to advance and support the teaching, scholarly, and service mission for Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University. Responsibilities include oversight of administrative, programming and communications components that enable NAISI staff, faculty, students, committees and working groups to achieve and maintain a high level of excellence in all administrative, teaching, scholarly, professional, and internal and external endeavors.

(Re)Telling

Crafting New Stories of Race and Place in Southern New England

June 7 • 9AM–4:30PM • Providence Public Library • 150 Empire Street • Providence, RI

This regional gathering brings together organizations, groups, and institutions engaged in the public humanities work of researching, crafting, and sharing stories about race and place in our region.

The conversations at (Re)Telling will consider strategies for fostering and amplifying new and known narratives, engaging in public dialogs that foster collective understanding, and using stories to further justice-oriented action.

The keynote program features Elon Cook Lee, Director of Interpretation and Education at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and former Simmons Center Graduate Fellow for the Study of the Public History of Slavery.

Panelists include Simons Center Visiting scholar Akeia de Barros Gomes and Brown collaborators Christopher West, and endawnis Spears.