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ROAAR

In 2016, the National Endowment for the Humanities funded “Reading the Oral Archive as an Act of Recovery” (ROAAR) as part of the ongoing work at Howard University of documenting and elevating key moments and figures in contemporary African American arts and letters, especially as they emerged at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

 

ROAAR has three primary objectives:

  1. reformatting/digitizing audio/visual recordings of the National Black Writers Conferences to make them available to researchers/scholars in viewable form

  2. creating critical commentary for each major conference and the contexts out of which the conferences and the writers who participated in them emerge

  3. generating a ROAAR “Preview” video along with six “Fireside Chats,” which involve interviewing key figures who played important roles in IAH’s history and beyond.

 

ROAAR makes unique new primary source material on contemporary African American writers available and engages HBCU faculty to produce new critical sources related to that material.

 

 

The ROAAR Team

Dana A. Williams

Project Co-Director

Chair of English and Professor of African American Literature at Howard University

Greg K. Carr

Project Co-Director

Chair of Afro-American Studies, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, and Acting Director of the Afro-American Studies Resource Center

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Catherine Adams

Researcher

Assistant Professor of English at Allen University

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Valethia Watkins 

Researcher

Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies and Director of Women’s Studies at Howard University 

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David F. Green 

Researcher

Assistant Professor of English and Director of First-Year Writing at Howard University.  

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Nathaniel Norment 

Researcher

Professor emeritus in African American Studies at Temple University and Adjunct Professor at Morehouse College

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Daniel Black 

Researcher

Professor of English, Africana Women’s Studies, African-American Studies and History at Clark Atlanta University

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Corey D. B. Walker 

Researcher

Vice President and Dean of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University

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Mario Beatty

Researcher

Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Howard University

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Amy Yeboah

Researcher

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Howard University

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Shauna Morgan 

Researcher

Assistant Professor of English at Howard University

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Samuel Livingston 

Researcher

Associate Professor and Director of the African American Studies Program at Morehouse College 

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Amirah Heath

Assistant Researcher

Doctoral Student in English at Howard University

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Rachel Jones

Assistant Media Researcher

Howard University Alumnae

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