Penn State University Professor Receives Award For Work Getting Black History Remembered
Penn State University's P. Gabrielle Foreman is among this year's 25 MacArthur Fellows for her dedication to ensuring "unremembered" Black history
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Penn State University's P. Gabrielle Foreman is among this year's 25 MacArthur Fellows for her dedication to ensuring "unremembered" Black history
Author Kiese Laymon, celebrated cellist Tomeka Reid, reproductive activist Loretta J. Ross and more have been named MacArthur Fellows.
P. Gabrielle Foreman, Paterno Family Professor of American Literature, professor of African American studies and history and co-director of the Center for Digital Black Research at Penn State, has been named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow for “setting a new standard for digital and collaborative humanities scholarship while also uncovering histories of African American organizing that are still relevant and resonant today.”
Penn State professor P. Gabrielle Foreman has been named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow for her work on the Colored Conventions Project.
Two years ago, Kate Masur of Northwestern University started documenting the radical importance of the Colored Conventions movement.