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Dr. Andrea Roberts

Community & Regional Planning Program
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
Participe à 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 auxquelles Dr. Andrea Roberts participe

Dimanche 5 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Sessions auxquelles Dr. Andrea Roberts assiste

Samedi 4 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
11:00
11:00 - 15:00 | 4 heures
Heritage Changes the Local SocietiesCitizenshipTourism
Heritage changes the local societiesheritage and mobilityPost-colonial heritageGlobal vs local

Much is being made of the perceived breakdown of the nation-state, which was historically configured as a “container” of heritage formations, adopting and perusing local traditions where possible but oppressing them where deemed unsuitable. Migration is seen as eroding the rigid boundaries of this configuration, potentially liberating identities and heritages in the process. This session addresses the relationship between critical heritage and redefinitions of self, other, community and place...

Dimanche 5 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00 - 12:30 | 3 heures 30 minutes
Heritage Changes the Local SocietiesCitizenshipTourism

Much is being made of the perceived breakdown of the nation-state, which was historically configured as a “container” of heritage formations, adopting and perusing local traditions where possible but oppressing them where deemed unsuitable. Migration is seen as eroding the rigid boundaries of this configuration, potentially liberating identities and heritages in the process. This session addresses the relationship between critical heritage and redefinitions of self, other, community and place...

14:00
14:00 - 15:30 | 1 heure 30 minutes
Co-Construction and Community Based HeritageHeritage Changes the Social OrderCitizenshipPublic event
Simultaneous translation - Traduction simultanée

"What does heritage change?" is a multifaceted  question to which the answer(s) are in primary respects related to real-life negotiations among different groups of citizens, cultures, races, ethnic groups, sexual identities, and social classes about received, official and/or widely accepted or accomodated intangible attributes, cultural traditions, historic monuments, buildings, and other transmitted or revived historical legacies. Heritage designated by and for whom, for what motivations, an...