
Dr. Andrea Roberts
Community & Regional Planning Program
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
Participates in 1 Session
Andrea Roberts,PhD is a graduate of the Community & Regional Planning and Historic Preservation Programs at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research explores African & African American diaspora, history, and heritage through the lens of community development, regional planning, & historic preservation. In partnership with Freedom Colony descendants, she documents settlement "creation" stories and contemporary challenges to place preservation in ex-slave settlements through The Texas Freedom Colonies Project. She performs engaged research on African American grassroots placemaking, historic preservation, and cooperative movements, to identify innovative practices as well as contributions to planning history and theory. Andrea brings to her research more than 15 years’ experience in public finance, housing, community and economic development, and nonprofit management. Andrea holds a MA in Governmental Administration and Public Finance from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Political Science and Women’s Studies from Vassar College. She has served on the City of Austin Historic Landmark Commission. FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS Diversity Scholarship Award, National Trust for Historic Preservation (2015) Sustainable Cities Doctoral Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin (2012 –14) RESEARCH Founder, Texas Freedom Colonies Project, The University of Texas at Austin (2014–Present) Founder & Project Manager, 5th Street Neighborhood Plan and Market Study, Center for Sustainable Development at The University of Texas at Austin. (2012–14) Research Assistant, Austin Historical Survey Wiki Project, The University of Texas at Austin. (2011–12) PUBLICATIONS Minner, J., Holleran, H., Roberts, A. & Conrad, J. "Capturing Volunteered Historical Information: Lessons from Development of a Local Government Crowdsourcing Tool." International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR) 4, no. 1: 19-41 (2015) “Black Bodies, Difficult Memories: An Exploration of African American Human & Spatial Agency in Ft. Bend County, Texas.” Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference, University of Gothenburg. Gothenburg, Sweden (2012)
Sessions in which Dr. Andrea Roberts participates
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- 11.30 The Texas Freedom Colony Diaspora: The Role of Memory and Performance in African American Place-Making and Preservation in Texas (cancelled)
- Participant Dr. Andrea Roberts (UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging II
- From 1866 to 1890, in the shadow of the Civil War and the violent American race relations that followed, former slaves founded more than 500 “Fr...
- Paper
Sessions in which Dr. Andrea Roberts attends
11:00
11:00
- Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M560
- 11:00 - 15:00 | 4 hours
- Much is being made of the perceived breakdown of the nation-state, which was historically configured as a “container” of heritage formations, adopt...
- Regular session
9:00
9:00
- Changing Places, Changing People? Critical Heritage(s) of Diaspora, Migration and Belonging II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M560
- 9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
- Much is being made of the perceived breakdown of the nation-state, which was historically configured as a “container” of heritage formations, adopt...
- Regular session
14:00
14:00
- Keynote: Renaming, Removal, Recontextualization of Heritage: Purging History, Claiming the Present, Imagining the Future? (What Change-Role for Heritage Professionals?) (James Count Early)
- Signup required Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal - Cummings Auditorium
- 14:00 - 15:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
- "What does heritage change?" is a multifaceted question to which the answer(s) are in primary respects related to real-life negotiations among dif...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
