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. 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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