Connect with other DC history scholars! Learn about the latest local scholarship and share your own research.

Historical research is as much about community building as it is the collections. To encourage those connections, the DC History Center creates fellowships that support local DC history champions and scholars, including Totman Fellows, each awarded $14,000. Join us June 3 for this special In the Works session introducing the DC History Center's 2025-2026 Fellows.

During the program, we'll hear from 2024-2025 Totman Fellow Bi'Anncha Andrews, who just successfully defended her dissertation to receive her doctorate in Urban and Regional Planning and Design from the University of Maryland, College Park! Andrews uses a framework she names “Dispossession by Design” to study the impact of displacement on Black Women from Barry Farm and beyond.

Share a bit about your own work, and learn about additional opportunities to research, write, and present local history research. Talk with DC History Center staff about the DC History Conference, the University Advisory Group, and Washington History.

Light snacks are provided in Memorial Hall during community time after the program.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

anyone keeping up with the latest DC scholarship
current graduate students
prospective graduate students
curious undergraduates
academic historians teaching DC history
curious community members
community members and partners of our fellows

Trying to figure out if this program is for you? Email us to chat! Registration for this event is free for all attendees. Pre-registration for the event is encouraged, but not required.

ACCOMODATIONS: If you require accommodations for a disability, email us at programs@dchistory.org with your request. We are committed to making events accessible for all participants. There will be photo and video taken at this event.

Introducing the 2025-2026 Fellows:

Morgan Forde, Totman Fellow: Black Washington
Emma O'Neill-Dietel, Totman Fellow: LGBTQ DC
Briana Thomas, DC History Center Fellow

2024-2025

2023-2024

2022-2023

Bi’Anncha Andrews, Totman Fellow

Dispossession by Design in DC: The Colonizer’s Guide for Making and Breaking a City and Its People

Manuel Mendez, Totman Fellow

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg: American Negro Academy in Washington, DC, from 1926-1928

Danny Ballon-Garst, Totman Fellow

Radicals, Reformers, and Revolutionaries: Queer of Color Religious Activism from Stonewall to the War on Terror

Kristy Li Puma, Totman Fellow

OUR CLUB: Informal Queer Black and Latinx Liberatory Spaces in DC, 1970-2000

Tim Kumfer, Totman Fellow

JosephineButler, D.C. Statehood, and the Everyday Work of Emancipation

The Totman Fellowship program is underwritten by Darrell Totman.

DC HISTORY CENTER PROGRAMS ARE SUPPORTED BY:

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