Professors Rosalyn Cooperman, Melina Patterson and Jess Rigelhaupt published an article titled “Teaching Race and Revolution: Doing Justice to Women’s Roles in the Struggle for Civil Rights,” in the July 2016 issue of P.S.: Political Science & Politics.
University of Mary Washington Professor Records History of Mary Washington Healthcare (The Free Lance-Star)
UMW Professor Documents Local Hospital History
Jess Rigelhaupt’s Op-Ed Appears in The Free Lance-Star
Assistant Professor of History and American Studies Jess Rigelhaupt’s op-ed “American Gulag: Justice for All?” appeared in the Sunday, April 1 issue of The Free Lance-Star. In the piece, Rigelhaupt argues for a review of the current American criminal justice system and provides historical background on incarceration practices.
“Sights of Struggle: Race, Art, Pedagogy” Lecture Tonight
Leigh Raiford, associate professor of African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley, will present the lecture “Sights of Struggle: Race, Art, Pedagogy” tonight. The lecture will begin at 7 p.m. in Lee Hall, Room 411 and is free and open to the public.
Raiford is the author of “Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle” (University of North Carolina Press, 2011) and co-editor with Renee Romano of “The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory” (University of Georgia Press, 2006).
The lecture is part of the “James Farmer and the Struggle for Civil Rights” freshman seminar course and is sponsored by the James Farmer Lecturer and Postdoctoral Committee.
For more information, contact Jess Rigelhaupt at (540) 654-1480.
Jess Rigelhaupt
Jess Rigelhaupt, assistant professor of history and American studies, and four UMW students served on a panel on “Oral History and Documenting James Farmer’s Legacy at the University of Mary Washington” at the 2010 meeting of the Oral History Association. Christiane Lauer ’11, Sadie Smith ’11, Justin Mattos ’10 and MacKenzie Murphy ’10, with Rigelhaupt, presented papers based on interviews the students conducted in Rigelhaupt’s course “Oral History and James Farmer,” which was taught in fall 2009. The interviews are available at farmeroralhistory.umwblogs.org, a website that documents Farmer’s contributions to UMW and was built as part of the course. Lauer’s and Smith’s participation in the Oral History Association annual meeting was supported by an undergraduate research grant from the College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office.