Bayley Marquez Winner of ARHU's Inaugural Junior Faculty Summer Fellowship

Bayley Marquez, Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies, was awarded a Junior Faculty Summer Fellowship for her manuscript project, Settler Pedagogy: Teaching Slavery and Settlement. This project examines the Hampton institute, which was founded as a school to educate Black students in 1868, which also founded the first American Indian boarding school program. The co-education of Black and Indigenous students at Hampton reframes common understandings of Indian boarding schools by placing them in conversation with the founding of schools for southern Blacks throughout the reconstruction and progressive eras. This manuscript project examines how the discussions about the implementation of racial education at the Hampton institute deepens our understanding of the links between settler colonialism and antiblack racism in education. 

ARHU initiated this new fellowship this year as part of its Faculty Funds Competition to award funds to junior faculty over the summer to enable them to make significant progress in a scholarly project necessary to their professional goals and to their field.