The 1856 Project Team
The 1856 Project is chaired by Lae'l Hughes-Watkins & Stefan Woehlke and is made up of an advisory team of experts and scholars in various disciplines. The project is led by University of Maryland Libraries
Co-Chairs and Executive Board
Lae'l Hughes-Watkins
Interim Director of Special Collections and University Archives and Associate Director for Engagement, Inclusion, and Reparative Archiving, Special Collections & University Archives
Stefan Woehlke
Post-doctoral Associate in the Historic Preservation Program
Barnet Pavão-Zuckerman
Professor & Chair, Department of Anthropology
Advisory Board
Dennis A. Doster
Black History Program Manager, Prince George's County, MD
Susan Kern
Director, Historic Preservation Program, School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation
Veronica Lewis
Director of Administrative Services, Belonging & Community at UMD
Douglas McElrath
Director, Special Collections & University Archives
Kim J. Nickerson
Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, College of Behavioral & Social Sciences
Psyche Williams-Forson
Professor & Chair, Department of American Studies
Staff
Britney Pollard
Mellon Funded-Reparative Histories Social Justice Research Incubator, Project Manager
Collaborators
Manuel Mendez
Graduate Assistant, Special Collections and University Archives, PhD Candidate, School of Information
Natalie Trapuzzano
University Archivist, Special Collections & University Archives
Header Image: Construction of Byrd Stadium, 1 September 1950, https://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/2572