Participants

Initiative Faculty

Participating Faculty

Advisory Council

Joy Ford Austin 

CEO, Joy Ford Austin Arts and Humanities Advocacy

Kent Blansett 

University of Kansas
Langston Hughes Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies and History

Gabe Bruguier 

University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Assistant Professor, University Libraries

Francene Blythe 

Executive Director, Vision Maker Media

Holly Brewer 

University of Maryland
Burke Professor of American History and Associate Professor of History

Taja-Nia Henderson

Rutgers University-Newark
Professor of Law, Dean of the Graduate School

Lina-Maria Murillo

University of Iowa
Assistant Professor, History, and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies

Alise Pape 

Gretna High School History Teacher
2022 Nebraska History Teacher of the Year

Linda Ho Peché

Project Director, Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive 

Sharon Pratt

Founding Director, Institute for Politics Policy and History

Doris Morgan Rueda

Stanford University
Fellow, Center for Law and History 

Sharlene Sinegal-DeCuir 

Xavier University of Louisiana
Associate Professor of History, Keller Family Endowed Professor


Previous Council Members

Anne Soon Choi

California State University, Dominguez Hills
Interim Associate Director of Online Pedagogy and Learning for the Faculty Development Center, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies

Alberto Rodriguez 

Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Associate Professor of History, Director of the Mexican American Studies Institute