Teaching Digital Curation as Place Preservation

Presented by the Historic Preservation Program's Marvin Breckenridge Patterson Lecture & The Museum Scholarship and Material Culture Program.

Lecture by 

Andrea Roberts,
Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning &
Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Landscapes at UVA
Founder of the Texas Freedom Colonies Project

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*The in person event includes a reception.

Dr. Roberts will share her pedagogical innovations with digital curation as a research method, including challenges and insights gleaned from The Texas Freedom Colonies Atlas and Survey –a virtual research project with social justice aims. She will highlight the educational contributions of direct engagement with grassroots African American preservationists and planners and discuss the role of the digital humanities in offering creative strategies for integrating social theory and humanistic inquiry. By foregrounding the humanities, her approach makes visible communities and equity issues not otherwise apparent.

About the speaker

Dr. Andrea Roberts is Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning and the Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Landscapes at the University of Virginia. As a scholar-activist and founder ofThe Texas Freedom Colonies Project,she raises awarenessof historic Black settlements' challengesandmentors emerging scholars working within these communities.