Tuskegee University (Tuskegee, AL 36088-1923)
Adaku Tawia Ankumah (Project Director: July 2018 to October 2022)
Rhonda Michelle Collier (Co Project Director: December 2018 to October 2022)
AB-264042-19
Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Education Programs
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$99,381 (approved)
$98,751 (awarded)
Grant period:
1/1/2019 – 9/30/2021
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Literary Legacies of Macon County and Tuskegee Institute: Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, and Albert Murray
A two-year project to produce new curricular
materials, digital humanities resources, and community engagement activities
focused on the writers Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, and Albert Murray.
The proposed project seeks
to advance humanities education and scholarship at Tuskegee University as our
students become acquainted with literary and cultural icons Zora Neale Hurston,
Ralph Ellison, and Albert Murray, each of whom was connected biographically and
artistically to Tuskegee Institute and Macon County, Alabama. In studying the works
of these pre-eminent authors of the twentieth century, engaging with scholars
knowledgeable about these authors, our students, mainly in the sciences and
social sciences, will be able to understand and contextualize twenty-first
century challenges in culture and society. The project, through course
enhancements, workshops for teachers and faculty, and community engagement
activities, also seeks to create a digital humanities site to disseminate and
historical documents, teaching materials, and cultural artifacts and to
preserve them for future generations.
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