{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"University Reckonings","description":"Princeton AAS Podcast S2 E04 University Reckonings Over the past decade, historians have probed the relationship between higher education and slavery through innovative public-facing projects that raise important questions. What role have academic institutions played in perpetuating racial inequality? How are scholars and students today working to hold universities accountable for past and present injustices? What role should public engagement play in shaping the future of scholarship and the mission of the university? As campuses buzz back to life, our hosts Ebun Ajayi and M\u00e9lena Laudig discuss the legacy of universities and slavery with up-and-coming scholars in Black Studies: R. Isabela Morales, Charlesa Redmond, and Ezelle Sanford, III. The Culture of... President Eisgruber\u2019s message to community on removal of Woodrow Wilson name from public policy school and Wilson College, June 27, 2020 Editorial Board, \u201cAfter five years of student activism, it\u2019s time for the U. to stop dragging its feet,\u201d The Daily Princetonian, July 2, 2020 Maya Kassutto, \u201cRemains of children killed in MOVE bombing sat in a box at Penn Museum for decades,\u201d BillyPenn, April 21, 2021 \u201cMOVE Bombing at 30,\u201d Democracy Now, May 13, 2015 Benjamin Ball, \u201cStudents hold protest in solidarity with MOVE,\u201d May 2, 2021 Association of Black Anthropologists, \u201cCollective Statement Concerning the Possession and Unethical Use of Remains,\u201d April 28, 2021   The Breakdown - Guest Info Isabela Morales, Ph.D. (http:\/\/www.risabelamorales.com\/)  Dr. R. Isabela Morales received her Ph.D. in history from Princeton University in 2019 and is Editor and Project Manager of the Princeton & Slavery Project. Her first book, Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2022. After two years working for the 9\/11 Memorial Museum, she will join the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum while working on her second book project. Ezelle Sanford III, Ph.D. (http:\/\/www.ezellesanford.com\/) Dr. Ezelle Sanford III is an Assistant Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University and received his PhD in history of science from Princeton in 2019. A scholar of African American, medical, and urban history, Dr. Sanford\u2019s book project, Segregated Medicine: How Racial Politics Shaped American Healthcare, explores the history of racial inequality in healthcare through the lens of St. Louis\u2019s Homer G. Phillips Hospital, America\u2019s largest segregated hospital in the mid-twentieth century. Before coming to his current position, Dr. Sanford was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Project Manager for the Penn Medicine and the Afterlives of Slavery Project. Charlesa Redmond (https:\/\/scholars.duke.edu\/person\/charlesa.redmond) Charlesa Redmond is a Ph.D. student in History at Duke University. A 2017 graduate of Princeton University, her senior thesis work was based in materials made accessible through the Princeton & Slavery Project. Her Ph.D. research aims to explore how colleges and universities tried to answer \u201cthe slavery question,\u201d and how such answers manifested themselves into tangible actions\u2014frustrating the slave trade at times while furthering it at others. See, Hear, Do The Princeton & Slavery Project Penn & Slavery Project and Penn Medicine and the Afterlives of Slavery Komal Patel, \u201cPenn Museum to remove Morton Cranial Collection from public view after student opposition,\u201d The Daily Pennsylvanian, July 12, 2020. Rachel L. Swans, \u201c272 Slaves Were Sold to Save Georgetown. What Does It Owe Their Descendants?\u201d The New York Times, April 17th, 2016  Georgetown Slavery Archive and Georgetown Reflects on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation \u201cBlack at Mizzou,\u201d APM Reports, August 14, 2020  Courtney Perrett, \u201cMU alumna shares her 'Black at Mizzou' experience in new audio documentary,\u201d Missourian, August 18, 2020 Eddie R. Cole, The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020) \u201cCollege presidents and the struggle for Black freedom,\u201d Princeton University Press Ideas Podcast, December 1st, 2020 Stanley Nelson and Marco Williams, Tell Them We Are Rising (PBS Independent Lens, 2018) ","author_name":"African American Studies at Princeton University","author_url":"https:\/\/aas.princeton.edu\/podcast","html":"