25.020 - Lifelong Historians: The Intersection of the Personal and Professional

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

In this session, senior scholars will reflect on their personal histories and how those histories prompted them to engage in their research on understudied and often misunderstood communities. They will engage questions about how their connections to their past(s) and their communities enhance their access and interpretive capacity, how their personal connections created blinders in their research, and how their research has changed they way they understand themselves.

Sub Unit

• Division F - Historical Inquiry in Education

Chair

• Vanessa Siddle-Walker, Emory University

Participants

• K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Arizona State University - Tempe

• James D. Anderson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Jackie M. Blount, The Ohio State University