Plenary Session with Dr. Felicia Jamison, PhD

January 22nd, 2025 by Matthew B. Berry, CG

SA01 Recovering Louisville’s African American History using Genealogical Research

Saturday, 24 May 2025, 8:00 a.m., Grand Ballroom A/B

Felicia Jamison, PhD, will explore the importance of genealogical research in the university setting for shedding light on family histories and for better understanding of broader trends in American history. She will discuss her research using property and landowning records to show how southern African Americans purchased, and passed on, land throughout the nineteenth century. She will also present how genealogy is a great tool for students to use when doing community engaged work, and how University of Louisville public humanities students incorporate local family histories into their research on African American history in Louisville.

Dr. Felicia Jamison is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Louisville. Her research specialty is 19th and 20th-century African American history, U.S. history, and public history. Her current research project analyzes the strategies southern Black women used to accumulate property during slavery and purchase land in the Reconstruction period. Dr. Jamison received her BA at Mercer University, her MA at Morgan State University, and her PhD and Graduate Certificate in Public History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.


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