Working Groups
SRMP’s focus is shifting in 2024 to academic endeavors – to be reflected in forthcoming curricular, co-curricular, scholarly and public history-oriented engagements. To orient this shift, SRMP is reorganizing its commitment to a new charge by organizing our efforts into 5 new working groups. Please follow this link for more information.
Charge: The Steering Committee is primarily responsible for setting the curricular course of the SRMP. Furthermore, the steering committee oversees SRMP’s alignment with the University’s Strategic Framework and its 3 Goals. In order to build clarity around “setting the curricular course” and aligning with the Strategic Framework the steering committee will accomplish its charge by organizing their work across a series of working groups.
- There will be 5 working groups
- Each group will have 3 members (some members can serve on more than one group)
- Each group should meet 2 times per term
- By the end of the year each group will have outlined
- Objectives for each group
- Outcomes
- Material needed to achieve outcomes
- Timeline
Current Working Groups
WG 1: Strategic Framework Alignment (Staffed by Sean McClure)
- Charge: Report how SRMP could align more explicitly with the University’s Strategic Framework 3 Themes.
Working Group Members
Rais Rahman*
Brenda Latham-Sadler
Keenon Mann
Nathan Fleming
Stacie Petter
WG 2: To Stand With and For Humanity-Vol. 2 and Beyond (Staffed by Sean McClure) - Charge: Discuss the pros/cons of continuing the series as originally intended
Develop a broad outline for the next volumes in the history series, suggesting essayists for volumes if the decision is to move forward
Working Group Members
Joseph Soares
Keenon Mann
Michele Gillespie
Terry Brock
Corey D. B. Walker*
Lisa Blee
WG 3: SRMP Course & Research Inventory (staffed by Ritt Culbreth) - Charge: Map and share existing courses that support the SRMP mission, while identifying gaps, needs, and new directions across academic units
Working Group
Sarah Soleim
Tanya Zanish-Belcher
Sherri Lawson Clark
Dani Parker-Moore
Kim McAllister
WG 4: SRMP Public Programming (staffed by Sean McClure) - Charge: Develop 2 public programs (one fall; one spring), including a deployment plan, to share with SC
Working Group Members
Claire Crawford
Gregory Parks
José Villalba*
WG 5: Universities Studying Slavery Reengagement (staffed by Eliese Ashline) - Charge: Develop a plan for proposal generation, participation and engagement, including possible leadership within USS
Name
Eric Watts
Joseph Soares
José Villalba
Sean McClure*