Katrina Greene Wood receives PhD candidacy acceptance Congratulations to 2015 BMRC Fellow Katrina Greene Wood for her dissertation proposal and candidacy acceptance by the Art History Department at the University of Delaware.
Amani Morrison wins National Council for Black Studies essay prize Congratulations to 2015 BMRC Fellow Amani Morrison who won first prize in the National Council for Black Studies 2016 Graduate Student Essay Contest, and also recently received University of California Berkeley’s Bancroft Library Study Award.
Shorefront awarded National Leadership Grant for Libraries BMRC Member Shorefront Legacy Center, alongside partners, will use the National Forum grant to host a series of meetings that will focus on integrating community archives in the National Digital Platform.
Sherry Williams featured by Millennium Reserve Congratulations to Williams, founder and director of the Bronzeville / Black Chicagoan Historical Society for being saluted and featured by the Millennium Reserve organization for her work highlighting the importance of preserving African-American history in Chicago.
Diane Jones Allen featured in Landscape Architecture Magazine Congratulations to 2015 BMRC Fellow Diane Jones Allen on being featured in the November 2015 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine and for being asked to be a speaker at the Landscape Architecture 50th Anniversary Event.
Jennifer Scism Ash awarded UIC Chancellor's Graduate Research Award The 2015 BMRC Fellow will apply the award to her project “No Longer 'Swept Under the Rug': A History of Gender, Sexuality, and Political Organizing at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, 1950s-1980s.”
Tony Burroughs awarded 2014 Volkel Medal of Honor Burroughs, a 2012 BMRC Fellow, received the Medal of Honor for his contributions to the field of Illinois genealogy.
Kim Bobier receives Whitney Museum Fellowship Congratulations to 2015 BMRC Fellow Kim Bobier for receiving a Helena Rubinstein Fellowship in Critical Studies for the 2015-16 Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program.
Shorefront Legacy Center awarded Society of American Archivists Diversity Award The Society recognized BMRC Board Member Dino Robinson alongside the Shorefront.
