Nubia: It’s a real place! - Ep 83

On today’s episode, Jessica chats with Dr. Shayla Monroe (Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University) and Debora Heard (Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology at the University of Chicago). The three talk about Nubia and its people (both ancient and modern), why they have been overshadowed, and why they are important. We also talked about what got them interested in this topic, what they are studying now in Nubia, and how the war in Sudan has affected their work and their colleagues. Finally, we talk about where they would like to see the study of Nubia go, including their efforts to co-found the William Leo Hansberry Society.

Links

• Heritage Voices on the APN

• William Leo Hansberry Society

• Hansberry Society Statement on the current situation in Sudan

• Ancient Nubia curriculum and youtube videos through Archaeology in the community

• Sudanese American Physicians Association

• Scholars at Risk

• Scholar Rescue Fund

• American Sudanese Archaeological Research Center

Contact

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  • @LivingHeritageResearchCouncil

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Maroon Heritage in Dominica - Ep 82

On today’s episode, Jessica chats with Jonathan Rodriguez (3rd year PhD student in the Applied Anthropology program at the University of South Florida) about Maroon heritage in Dominica. We talk about how he got interested in archaeology and this topic, as well as how his Army service and Anthropology training influenced his experience with each. We also talk about his upcoming Fulbright research in Dominica, where he will use geospatial methods, archaeology, and oral history to learn more about and amplify the voices of a community that purposefully left little evidence of themselves in the archaeological record. Finally we talk about the networks between Maroon communities and diversity of Maroon community experiences across the Caribbean, as well as Maroon efforts today to be recognized as Indigenous peoples.

Transcripts

• Segment 1

• Segment 2

• Segment 3

Links

• Heritage Voices on the APN

• Create Caribbean Research Institute

• Anthropology doctoral candidate selected as USF’s first student veteran recipient of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program

• Lennox Honychurch’s 2017 book In the Forests of Freedom: The Fighting Maroons of Dominica

• Book edited by Polly Pattullo (2015) Your Time Is Done Now: Slavery, Resistance, and Defeat: The Maroon Trials of Dominica (1813-1814)

• YouTube video from Dominica Maroon scholar, Neil Vaz, “DOMINICA TRIP: Discovering Afro-Maroon History via Theater and Hiking”

• Maroon Gathering

• News Article “Maroon gathering in Dominica advances effort for global recognition of maroons as indigenous people”

• Justin Dunnavant’s 2021 article “In the Wake of Maritime Marronage”

• Justin Dunnavant’s 2021 article “Have confidence in the sea: Maritime Maroons and Fugitive Geographies”

• Justin Dunnavant, Steven Wernke, and Lauren Kohut's 2023 article "Counter-Mapping Maroon Cartographies: GIS and Anticolonial Modeling in St. Croix"

Contact

• Jessica

  • Jessica@livingheritageanthropology.org

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  • @LivingHeritageResearchCouncil

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