NEH Institute on Black Geographies of Mobility: Toward New Frameworks for Teaching Movement

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Notes

1 The NEH summer institute directors included Derek Alderman, Joshua Kenna, and Katrina Stack (all at the University of Tennessee), Kurt Butefish (Tennessee Geographic Alliance), and Ethan Bottone (Northwest Missouri State University). Contributing guest presenters and facilitators included several University of Tennessee colleagues—Stefanie Benjamin, Michael Camponovo, LaToya Eaves, Luke Harlow, and Rose Shelor—as well as Joshua Inwood (Penn State University), Blair Kelley (NC State), Dory Lerner (National Civil Rights Museum), Daphene McFerren (Hooks Institute for Social Change), David Padgett (Tennessee State University), John Strait (Sam Houston State University), and Jeff Williams (Belle Meade Historic Site). Local community partners included Robert Booker, Briana Flanagan and Renee Kesler (all at Beck Cultural Exchange Center in Knoxville, TN).

2 The NEH summer institute’s living clearinghouse of Black mobility resources and other presentations and projects resulting from the workshop can be found online at: https://sites.google.com/utk.edu/blackgeographiesofmobility/schedule-materials.

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Notes on contributors

Derek H. Alderman

Derek H. Alderman is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Sustainability at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and founder of Tourism RESET, an organization that studies and challenges racial inequalities in travel, tourism, and geographic mobility. He is a cultural historical geographer interested in public memory, race, civil rights education, critical place naming and mapping studies, and politics of geographic mobility and travel, often in the context of the African American Freedom Struggle.

Ethan Bottone

Ethan Bottone is an Assistant Professor of Geography in the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences at Northwest Missouri State University. His teaching and research explores human and cultural geography, focusing particularly on critical aspects of tourism.

Kurt Butefish

Kurt Butefish is retired from the University of Tennessee Department of Geography and Sustainability where he was Executive Director of the Tennessee Geographic Alliance. He now dedicates himself to travel with his spouse and any activity that gets him outdoors.

Joshua L. Kenna

Joshua L. Kenna is an Associate Professor of Social Science Education in Department of Theory and Practice in Teacher Education at the University of Tennessee. His research interests include the teaching and learning of social studies particularly through films and social issues, experiential learning such as field trips and service-learning projects, standards-based educational reforms, and literacy in social studies.

Katrina Stack

Katrina Stack is a PhD Candidate at the University of Tennessee in the Department of Geography and Sustainability where she studies cultural historical geography and geographies of memory with a focus on race, public memory, heritage tourism and preservation, and critical place naming.