People

Faculty, Staff and Student Contributors to the WashU & Slavery Project

Project Leadership

The WashU & Slavery Project is led by a steering committee co-chaired by the director and asssociate director, and comprised of faculty and staff from the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2) and the majority of the schools at Washington University in St. Louis. The steering committee helps manage ongoing initiatives, shape project objectives and strategies, and support broad campus and community engagement. 


Directors

  • Geoff Ward, Professor of African and African American Studies (AFAS); Director, WashU & Slavery Project More

  • Kelly Schmidt, Reparative Public Historian, WashU Libraries, Lecturer in AFAS, Associate Director of WashU & Slavery Project More


Steering Committee

  • Tila Neguse, Associate Director, Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2) More
     
  • Rafael Pardo, Walter D. Coles Professor of Law, WashU School of Law More
     
  • Kaytlin Reedy-Rogier, Director, Health Equity and Justice, Instructor of Medicine, WashU School of Medicine More
     
  • Matthew Bernstine, Associate Director, Office for Socially Engaged Practice and Lecturer in Urban Design, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts More

WashU & Slavery Project Scholars

Student contributions to the WashU & Slavery Project are core to our research, teaching, interpretation and community engagement efforts. Learn more about the WashU & Slavery Project Scholars program and apply to become involved as a Project Scholar through the link below.

Project Scholars Program

Project Scholars

Current Project Scholars

  • Precious Barry, Undergraduate student in Arts & Sciences, Project: Addressing Legacies of Slavery in Senegal (Immersive Learning)

  • Audeep Cariens, Undergraduate student in Arts & Sciences and the Sam Fox School, Projects: Revisiting the 1904 World's Fair and Olympic Games; project graphic design (Research & Interpretation)

  • Atiya Ciphe, Undergraduate student in Arts & Sciences, Projects: Researching Walter Farmer & WashU Law; Anti-Blackness and the Hilltop Campus Move (Research & Interpretation)

  • Siobhan Davenport, Undegraduate student in Arts & Sciences,  Project: Addressing Legacies of Slavery in Spain (Immersive Learning)

  • Betty Lee, Undegraduate student in Arts & Sciences, Projects: Researching John Berry Meachum; John Shepley; Slavery & STL street names (Research & Interpretation)

Past Project Scholars

  • Alura Berry, Undegraduate student in Arts & Sciences, Project: Commemorating Archer Alexander (Research & Interpretation)

  • Arielle Hatton, Undegraduate student in Arts & Sciences, Project: Interpreting Enslavement and Freedom at General Daniel Bissell House, in partnership with St. Louis County Parks (Research & Interpretation)

  • Charles McGrath, Undegraduate student in Arts & Sciences, Project: Polly Berry and Lucy Delaney' Fight for Freedom in Antebellum St. Louis (Research & Interpretation)

  • Leena Rai, Undegraduate student in Arts & Sciences, Project: Mapping slavery, abolition, reconstruction, and redemption in greater St. Louis (Research & Interpretation)

  • Max Schreiber, Undegraduate student in Arts & Sciences, Project: Development of a Network to Freedom program nomination, in partnership with the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation and the National Park Service (Research & Interpretation)

  • Sylvia Sukop, Doctoral student in Arts & Sciences, Project: Interpreting Enslavement and Freedom at Henry Shaw's Tower Grove House, in partnership with the Missouri Botanical Garden (Mentored Professional Experience)