Please join us at the Anna Julia Cooper Workshop in Black History, a works-in-progress workshop series in the D.C., Maryland, Virginia area convened by Quincy Mills, Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland. For the 2022-23 academic year, the workshop will meet on Fridays, from 4:00-5:30 p.m. via Zoom.

Our next meeting will be October 28th, where we will be discussing “By the Dexterous Use of Their Hatpins”: Black Women in the New York Garment Industry, 1900-1950, by Janette Gayle.

The Anna Julia Cooper Workshop in Black History (The Cooper Workshop) features scholars from various disciplines researching and writing on Black history in the United States and the world. Cooper was the first African American woman to earn a doctorate in History, taught and mentored scores of students in D.C., and made invaluable contributions to Black intellectual life. The Cooper Workshop will feature scholars from various disciplines researching and writing on Black history in the United States and the world. We use “Black” to embrace the expansiveness of African America and attend to the long tradition of black internationalism. With the conviction that “all knowledge is incremental and collective,” as David Levering Lewis once wrote, the Workshop aims to foster a supportive space for the engagement and production of innovative scholarship in African American history.

Six times per academic year, we will meet to discuss a colleague’s pre-circulated paper. Papers and the Zoom ID will be circulated one week in advance of the workshop. To join the listserv, email Derek Litvak, graduate coordinator, [email protected] or Quincy Mills, convener, [email protected]. For more information on the workshop, visit go.umd.edu/ajcworks.

Please see the schedule for the 2022-23 academic year below and the flyer attached.

FALL 2022

September 23, 4:00 p.m. via Zoom
Nicole Ivy, Assistant Professor of American Studies, George Washington University

Title: TBD

 

October 28, 4:00 p.m. via Zoom
Janette Gayle, Assistant Professor of History, Hobart & William Smith Colleges

“By the Dexterous Use of Their Hatpins”: Black Women in the New York Garment Industry, 1900-1950

 

November 18, 4:00 p.m. via Zoom
Jordana Saggese, Professor of American Art, University of Maryland – College Park

Prizefighting, Boxing, and the Rise of Print Media

 

Spring 2023

February 24, 4:00 p.m. via Zoom
Dexter Blackman, Assistant Professor of History, Morgan State University

“We’re talking about the survival of society”: Institutional Racism as the Origins of Black Power and the OPHR

 

March 31, 4:00 p.m. via Zoom
Nathalie Pierre, Assistant Professor of History, Howard University

“Delivered to Plunder”: Emperor Dessalines’ Siege against the Enslavement Proclamation of 1805

 

April 28, 4:00 p.m. via Zoom
Derek Musgrove, Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland – Baltimore College

A Rainbow Rebellion