Defining, Documenting, and Teaching New Orleans Creole Culture
FAIN: AB-226757-15
Dillard University (New Orleans, LA 70122-3043)
Hannah Baker Saltmarsh (Project Director: June 2014 to August 2016)
Mona Lisa Saloy (Project Director: August 2016 to December 2019)
A project at Dillard University to infuse New Orleans Creole culture, history, and literature into humanities courses and to produce digital and media materials for the university and the wider public.
The project, "Defining, Documenting, and Teaching New Orleans Creole Culture at Dillard," aims to create a digital archive and enhanced humanities course offerings at Dillard University that explore critical aspects of the historic, multi-cultural, and racial identity in New Orleans. Using selected oral histories to document the evolution of Creole culture, the first area of course enhancement is to create themed freshmen writing courses open to cohorts of students majoring in humanities programs. Additionally, faculty will create a new English course, "Black Creole New Orleans" and create enhanced content on Creole culture to be infused into existing English courses, "Caribbean Literature" and "Linguistics," and the African World Studies course, "Black New Orleans." The oral histories collected will form a new digital archive at Dillard University, and be presented in a short documentary. A culminating event will consist of a panel of Creole scholars from Dillard, LSU, and Tulane.
Associated Products
Assignments- Defining Creole (Course or Curricular Material)Title: Assignments- Defining Creole
Author: Nancy Dixon
Author: Hannah Saltmarsh
Author: Mona Lisa Saloy
Abstract: Defining the term Creole
Year: 2015
Audience: Undergraduate
Assignments- IRB Human Subject Research Training and Workshops (Course or Curricular Material)Title: Assignments- IRB Human Subject Research Training and Workshops
Author: Mona Lisa Saloy
Author: Lynn Strong
Author: Hannah Saltmarsh
Author: Dr. Lovell Agwaramgbo
Abstract: Course materials to provide students and faculty with IRB Human Research Training and Worskhops prior to interviews
Year: 2015
Audience: Undergraduate
Assignments- Ethnographies (Course or Curricular Material)Title: Assignments- Ethnographies
Author: Mona Lisa Saloy
Abstract: Materials to write an ethnography of one's own family
Year: 2015
Audience: Undergraduate
Workshopsand course materials- Filming techniques (Course or Curricular Material)Title: Workshopsand course materials- Filming techniques
Author: Mark Raymond
Abstract: Training and materials for filming of interviews. 2 sessions with hands-on work.
Year: 2015
Audience: Undergraduate
Assignments- Cultural Traditions (Course or Curricular Material)Title: Assignments- Cultural Traditions
Author: Hannah Saltmarsh
Author: Nancy Dixon
Author: Mona Lisa Saloy
Abstract: Lesson plans and materials for documenting cultural traditions of New Orleans Creoles and/or of one's own family
Year: 2015
Audience: Undergraduate
Defining Creole and Creole terms (Course or Curricular Material)Title: Defining Creole and Creole terms
Author: Mona Lisa Saloy
Author: Hannah Saltmarsh
Author: Nancy Dixon
Abstract: Material on the definitions of Creole and Creole terms such as "boo" or "beaucoup"
Year: 2015
Audience: Undergraduate
Creole Culture talk- Keeping Creole- Attendance and Resilience (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: Creole Culture talk- Keeping Creole- Attendance and Resilience
Abstract: Dr. Saloy presented at the Smithsonian on Creole Culture
Author: Mona Lisa Saloy
Date: 02/26/2015
Location: Washington DC
Introducing Folklore PowerPoint (Course or Curricular Material)Title: Introducing Folklore PowerPoint
Author: Dr. Mona Lisa Saloy
Abstract: Introducing Folklore to students, the field of folklore, what folklorists do, what we will do at Dillard University in Documenting and Defining Black Creole Culture
Year: 2016
Audience: Undergraduate
Documenting Contemporary Creole Culture (Course or Curricular Material)Title: Documenting Contemporary Creole Culture
Author: Dr. Mona Lisa Saloy
Abstract: Introducing students to Creole, the process, language, culture
Year: 2016
Audience: Undergraduate
Folklore, an Intro: What's Culture (Course or Curricular Material)Title: Folklore, an Intro: What's Culture
Author: Mona Lisa Saloy
Abstract: This undergraduate curriculum guide introduces students to Folklore through the lens of culture. It includes Faith as a cultural practice. From defining necessary concepts such as tales, fables, to demonstrating Tradition Bearers who create artifacts and cultural practice, this guide gives an overview with contemporary media links of examples.
Year: 2017
Audience: Undergraduate
Hip Hop as Black Cultural Practice (Course or Curricular Material)Title: Hip Hop as Black Cultural Practice
Author: Jeff Benjamin with Dr. Mona Lisa Saloy
Abstract: After introducing Folklore, this is one of two assignments given in the first-year seminar applying features of the introduction to Folklore, this assignment investigates Hip Hop as Cultural Practice.
Year: 2017
Audience: Undergraduate
Autobiography: Culture 2017 (Course or Curricular Material)Title: Autobiography: Culture 2017
Author: Jeff Benjamin with Dr. Mona Lisa Saloy
Abstract: This is the second assignment infusing culture into the curriculum for the first-year experience; this one refreshes the student autobiographical assignment adding lessons learned from the introduction to folklore, What is Culture?
Year: 2017
Audience: Undergraduate
Bleu Orleans, 55 min. promo (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)Title: Bleu Orleans, 55 min. promo
Writer: Mona Lisa Saloy
Director: Mona Lisa Saloy
Producer: Mona Lisa Saloy
Abstract: Edited by Richard Dunn, this is the 55 minute promo for the documentary Bleu Orleans.
Year: 2017
Primary URL:
http://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/recentPrimary URL Description: Bleu Orleans short clip of documentary documenting Black Creole Culture at Dillard Univeristy
Access Model: Google drive
Format: Film