The HistoryMakers Fellowship Awarded to Senior Lecturer Margena A. Christian
The HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive, has awarded its 2022-2023 Faculty Innovations in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellowship to University of Illinois Chicago Senior Lecturer Margena A. Christian (English).
Christian’s course, “Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud! Writing About African Americans in the Media,” will use The HistoryMakers Digital Archive to explore the role of the Black media in political, social and cultural coverage with regards to representation, dissemination, innovation and education. Students will evaluate misconceptions and misrepresentations about African Americans, engage in scholarly research to uncover strategies utilized in contributing to more inclusivity, and identify the diverse narratives employed within The HistoryMakers Digital Archive to understand why who controls the narrative matters in the media.
Now in its third year, The HistoryMakers Faculty Innovations in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellowship is designed to foster classroom innovation and teaching, and to diversify curricula while furthering student learning and research skills during the upcoming academic year. Award recipients will receive a $7,500 award and the opportunity to demonstrate how faculty can creatively incorporate The HistoryMakers Digital Archive into a semester course and syllabus.
For more information on The HistoryMakers or The HistoryMakers 2022-2023 Faculty Innovations in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellowship, visit: https://www.thehistorymakers.org/higher-ed-fellowships