The HistoryMakers 2021 Faculty Innovations in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellowship
Institution Type: | Nonprofit |
Location: | Illinois, United States |
Position: | Fellow |
This year, The HistoryMakers is awarding up to eight (8) Faculty Innovations in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellowships ($7500). The fellowship period is June 2021-January 2022 and the fellowship awards will center around significant incorporation and use by faculty of The HistoryMakers Digital Archive in faculty curricula and classroom instruction. The aim of the fellowship is to foster innovation and further student learning and research skills while providing 21st-century digital tools that diversify today’s and tomorrow’s higher education environments for virtual, hybrid, and in-person instruction. This fellowship builds upon the inaugural 2020 Innovations in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellowship program.
Successful applications will evidence a plan to increase awareness and usage of The HistoryMakers Digital Archive at a given institution by integrating The HistoryMakers Digital Archive into a course's design and syllabus. It will evidence, through student work, increased student learning and engagement as well as the further diversification of the curriculum.
Applications are due no later than Friday, April 30, 2021 and awardees will be notified on Friday, May 14, 2021, with awardees being announced nationally on Friday, May 28, 2021. Submission is open only to faculty at The HistoryMakers Digital Archive subscribing institutions. For a complete list of subscribing institutions, refer to the announcement below.
Please visit this link https://www.thehistorymakers.org/higher-ed-fellowships for the detailed announcement and the link to the application.
About The HistoryMakers
The HistoryMakers Digital Archive makes accessible the first person, video oral history testimonies of The HistoryMakers, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in Illinois. It combines traditional oral history with state-of-the-art technology. With more than 11,000 hours of searchable content, The HistoryMakers Digital Archive’s highlighted transcripts and curated story segments make searching the collection both efficient and effective, solidifying the tool as a top-tier primary source electronic database that can be viewed on computers and mobile devices. Over 3,300 interviews of African American leaders from across a variety of disciplines—including the arts, business, civic engagement, education, entertainment, law, media, medicine, STEM, the military, music, politics, religion, sports, and fashion & beauty—are featured in The HistoryMakers Collection. Interviews last two to fifteen hours in length and have been conducted in 413 U.S. cities and towns—as well as in international locations like Mexico, the Caribbean and Norway. With recollections dating back to the 1700s, the archive contains thousands of subjects including business, technology, the Great Migration, foodways, poetry, The Black Arts Movement, funeral rites, public health, modern music, LGBTQ, science, theology, integration, shifts in beauty culture, black feminism, and more. The HistoryMakers archives also contain the stories of Alonzo Pettie, the oldest living black cowboy, and statesman General Colin Powell; as well as poets Nikki Giovanni and Sonia Sanchez. Also included are 211 of the nation’s top scientists, including Katherine Johnson, who was featured in the Hollywood movie Hidden Figures; civic leaders C.T. Vivian and Marion Wright Edelman; music icons Berry Gordy and Quincy Jones; business leaders former Amex CEO Ken Chenault, Merck CEO Ken Frazier, and former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns; lawyers former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and NAACP Legal Defense Fund president Sherrilyn Ifill, political leaders Congresswoman Maxine Waters and former President Barack Obama (when he was an Illinois State Senator); as well as New York Times columnist Charles Blow, innovative artist Theaster Gates, museum director Thelma Golden, restaurateur Marcus Samuelsson, and entrepreneur Daymond John.
In 2014, the Library of Congress became The HistoryMakers’ permanent repository. It heralded The HistoryMakers as a “one of a kind, unparalleled resource that is vitally important to the nation and the world and to those seeking a more complete record of our nation’s history and its people.”
Contact: |
If you have any questions or desire further information, please do not hesitate to contact William Teresa at wt@thehistorymakers.org or (312) 674-1900, ext. 508. Please visit this link https://www.thehistorymakers.org/higher-ed-fellowships for the detailed announcement and the link to the application. |
Website: | https://www.thehistorymakers.org/higher-ed-fellowships |
Primary Category: | African American History / Studies |
Secondary Categories: | None |
Posting Date: | 04/05/2021 |
Closing Date | 07/01/2021 |