Present Pasts Journal

Sunday, Oct. 17: Join us for an exciting talk by Dr. Erin Kimmerle, Director of the Florida Institute of Forensic Anthropology and Applied Science. at USF.

When Black History Is Unearthed, Who Gets to Speak for the Dead? Efforts to rescue African American burial grounds and remains have exposed deep conflicts over inheritance and representation.

University Area Redevelopment Project

St. Pete’s Black burial grounds erased from history Left, Gwendolyn Reese, Dr. Julie Armstrong, Dr. Antoinette Jackson. BY FRANK DROUZAS, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG — Across the nation and throughout Tampa Bay, African-American cemeteries have been lost to history, neglected, abandoned, even paved over and developed on. Even in St. Pete, where Tro...

Race, Gender, Indigeneity, and the Meaning of Narrative and Excavated Pasts.
Dr. Maria Franklin, Dr. Kendra Field, Dr. Nedra Lee, Thursday, April 8, 2021, 7:00–8:30 p.m. CST via zoom https://www.mtsu.edu/history/strickland-scholar.php