Stagville State Historic Site, Durham, NC - May 2020-August 2020*
In collaboration with site leadership, staff, and volunteers, I worked with Stagville State Historic Site to examine and re-imagine the site's landscape, produce public pedagogical materials, and create and curate content for ongoing research and development. Main Accomplishments
Developed and wrote a landscape master plan for the site, including:
History of the site's landscape change through time;
Description of the site's re-imagined landscape, along with interpretive, historical, and logistical justifications for five main projects;
A multi-step, multi-year strategic plan that empowers Stagville leadership and staff to progress toward a version of the site's landscape that more fully integrates the experiences of African American communities at Stagville, both before and after Emancipation
Produced a self-guided tour brochure entitled "Landscape and Power at Stagville" that invites visitors to think about the spatial ways in which power and agency were enacted on antebellum Southern plantations;
Created exhibit packages **
*My work with Stagville in summer 2020 was funded through a fellowship from the Mellon Foundation Humanities for the Public Good Initiative at UNC-Chapel Hill.