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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)
9:00
9:00

Paper

Dr. Andrea Roberts, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (Participant.e)

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...

Sessions auxquelles Dr. Andrea Roberts assiste

Samedi 4 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
11:00
11:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M560

Regular session

Prof. Máiréad Nic Craith, Heriot-Watt University (Participant.e)

Dr Susannah Eckersley, Media, Culture, Heritage, Newcastle University, UK (Modérateur.rice)

Prof. Ullrich Kockel, Intercultural Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University (Modérateur.rice)

Much is being made of the perceived breakdown of the nation-state, which was historically configured as a “container” of heritage formations, adopt...

Dimanche 5 Juin, 2016

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00

UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-M560

Regular session

Prof. Ullrich Kockel, Intercultural Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University (Modérateur.rice)

Dr Susannah Eckersley, Media, Culture, Heritage, Newcastle University, UK (Modérateur.rice)

Prof. Máiréad Nic Craith, Heriot-Watt University (Modérateur.rice)

Much is being made of the perceived breakdown of the nation-state, which was historically configured as a “container” of heritage formations, adopt...
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)
1 heure 30 minutes, 14:00 - 15:30
Inscription req.

Musée des Beaux-Ars de Montréal - Cummings Auditorium

Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

Prof. James Count Early, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, United States (Participant.e)

Prof. Michelle L. Stefano, University of Maryland, American Studies, United States (Modérateur.rice)

"What does heritage change?" is a multifaceted  question to which the answer(s) are in primary respects related to real-life negotiations among dif...