Ep. 85 – Colored Conventions and the Long History of Black Organizing

P. Gabrielle Foreman, PhD, is an award-winning professor of English, African American Studies, and History. A leader in the field of Black digital and public history, Dr. Foreman has been recognized for co-creating projects that build community and institutions while addressing pipeline and equity issues.

• Founding Faculty director of the nationally acclaimed Colored Conventions Project
• Founding co-director of the Center for Digital Black Research/#DigBlk
• MacArthur Fellow
• Paterno Family Chair of Liberal Arts, Penn State University

As a teacher, scholar, and mentor, Dr. Foreman is committed to creating, sustaining, empowering, and recovering collectives that are working not only for inclusion and equity — but for justice. She publishes extensively on issues of race, reform, and resistance in the nineteenth century, focusing on the past’s continuing hold on the world we inhabit today.