In the Works: Research and Scholarship at the DC History Center
Event description
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. The DC History Center awards annual Totman Fellowships to support local DC history champions and scholars. Join us June 3 for this special In the Works session introducing the 2025-2026 Fellows.
We'll also hear from 2024-2025 Totman Fellow Bi'Anncha Andrews, who just successfully defended her dissertation to receive her doctorate in the Urban and Regional Planning and Design Program at the University of Maryland! 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. DC History Center, DC History Conference staff, members of the University Advisory Group, and Washington History editors will be in attendance for an opportunity to chat one-on-one about your ideas.
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.
ACCOMDATIONS: 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 Totman Fellows:
- Morgan Forde
- Emma O'Neill-Dietel
| 2024-2025 | 2023-2024 | 2022-2023 |
Bi’Anncha Andrews | Manuel Mendez Arturo Alfonso Schomburg: American Negro Academy in Washington, DC, from 1926-1928 Danny Ballon-Garst Radicals, Reformers, and Revolutionaries: Queer of Color Religious Activism from Stonewall to the War on Terror | Kristy Li Puma OUR CLUB: Informal Queer Black and Latinx Liberatory Spaces in DC, 1970-2000 Tim Kumfer |
This fellowship program is underwritten by Darrell Totman.
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