Doing History in Polarized Times - Day 2 - Closing Conversation

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Speakers in this final session will tie together the various themes of the virtual summit, consider takeaways and lingering questions, and discuss how the summit’s lessons can be put into to practice in the field. The speakers will also consider the history field’s role in handling disagreements about the past and its connection to the present. Finally, the panel will explore the context and transformative potential of the 250th.

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Daina Ramey Berry

Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts

University of California at Santa Barbara

Dr. Berry is Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Berry is an historian, a “scholar of the enslaved,” and a specialist on gender and slavery as well as Black women’s history in the United States. She is the award-winning author/editor of six books. Her most recent publication, A Black Women’s History of the United States, co-authored with Kali Nicole Gross, is an empowering testament of Black women’s ability to build communities in the face of oppression, and their continued resistance to systemic racism and sexism. Dr. Berry completed her BA, MA, and PhD in African American Studies and U.S. History at the University of California Los Angeles.

Jonathan Zimmerman

Professor of History of Education and Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor in Education

University of Pennsylvania

Jonathan Zimmerman is Professor of History of Education and the Berkowitz Professor in Education at the University of Pennsylvania. A former Peace Corps volunteer and high school teacher, Zimmerman is the author of Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools (University of Chicago Press, 2nd ed.) and eight other books. Zimmerman is also a columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer and a frequent contributor to the Washington Post, the New York Review of Books, and other popular newspapers and magazines. Zimmerman taught for 20 years at New York University, where he received its Distinguished Teaching Award in 2008.

Ramin Ganeshram (Moderator)

Executive Director

Westport Museum for History & Culture

Ramin Ganeshram is the Executive Director of the Westport Museum for History & Culture in Westport CT. A culinary historian focused on BIPOC foodways in colonial North America and the Caribbean and Early Federal America, she is a chef and journalist educated at Columbia University Graduate School of journalism. Ganeshram is noted for her work surfacing the hidden history of Hercules Posey, the chef enslaved by George Washington. She has been recognized in evolving the Westport Museum from a small, local house museum to a regional history Museum focused on making history whole through inclusive interpretation.