Announcing the recipients of COVID-19 Grants for History in the Public Interest

History in the public interest from the Lepage Center at Villanova University

Announcing the recipients of our COVID-19 Grants for History in the Public Interest

The Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest at Villanova University is delighted to announce the recipients of its COVID-19 Grants for History in the Public Interest.

The Lepage Center received a high volume of quality proposals, resulting in greater than 10 awards. We are pleased to be able to support these outstanding projects, which each contributes to advancing history in the public interest.

Recipients

Anabaptist History Today

Messages from a Pandemic

Letters from the Epidemic

Beyond Better

Locked Down

COVIDCalls

Documenting the Undocumented

We Go Down Sewing

Bearing Witness

HBCUs and Public Health

in Nashville

History of Mutual Aid

Infectious Historians

An Oral History of Iowa's Chinese Americans and Nationals

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"Decolonizing the Church"

November 2020

A Conversation with Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt

Wednesday, Nov. 4th | 12:30 p.m - 1:30 p.m.

How have citational practices among scholars contributed to the marginalization and erasure of Black Catholics in the history of the Church? Join us for a conversation with Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt, a sociologist of religion specializing in systemic racism in the Catholic Church. Dr. Pratt received her PhD from Fordham University, and she is the President & Director of Research at TNPratt & Associates, LLC - an Inclusion and Diversity consulting firm.

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The Real Sister Act: Confronting the Uneasy History of Racial Segregation and Exclusion in Female Religious Life

Wednesday, Nov. 11th | 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

How do the lived experiences of Black Catholic sisters challenge and revise dominant narratives of the U.S. Catholic experience? Join us for a lecture by Dr. Shannen Dee Williams, the Albert Lepage Assistant Professor of History at Villanova University. In this talk, Dr. Williams will examine the largely hidden history of anti-black racism in female religious life and chart the long struggle to the nation’s historically white and white ethnic sisterhoods.

Featuring:

Shannen Dee Williams, Albert Lepage Assistant Professor of History at Villanova University

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Preserving Philadelphia's Black Catholic History and Heritage in the 21st Century: A Roundtable Discussion

Wednesday, Nov. 18th | 12:30 p.m - 1:30 p.m.

Featuring:

Adrienne Harris, Executive Director, Descendants and Advocates of St. Peter Claver Catholic Church
Jacqueline Wiggins, St. Martin de Porres Catholic Church
Carolyn Jenkins, St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church

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