Mary Rizzo Named Whiting Public Engagement Fellow for Baltimore Cultural History Exhibit
Mary Rizzo Mary Rizzo, Assistant Professor of History and Associate Director of Public and Digital Humanities Initiatives at Rutgers University-Newark, has won a $50,000 Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship to produce a traveling exhibit about Black cultural activism in Baltimore co-created with local middle- and high- school students and grounded in the evolution of Chicory, an African American literary magazine published from the 1960s through the 1980s. The story of Chicory— rediscovered by Rizzo after falling into relative obscurity and now fully digitized in collabora...
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