by Professor Theron Coleman The season of fall never fails to bring uncertainty in the weather. I was sure that on a Saturday afternoon in October, the weather would be cool, crisp, and calming. To my pleasant and sweltering surprise,…
On a beautiful May afternoon, Smithsonian Faculty Fellows new and old, along with members of the Montgomery College community and guests from the Smithsonian, gathered in the Cultural Arts Center at the College's Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus to celebrate the…
by Professor Matthew Decker The Fellows were in especially esteemed company as Maria Marable-Bunch, Associate Director of Museum Learning and Programs, welcomed them to the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) last Thursday. While she shared appropriately glowing reviews…
The MC-Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship program is delighted to announce the 10 new Fellows selected for the 2023 cohort. As always, competition was strong, and the Committee was faced with the tough task of selecting the new cohort. The group represents…
Dr. Nichole Gibbs Thomas, Professor, Psychology When people talk about the greats, mostly I hear them talking about actors, musicians, or even presidents. For example, recently I heard someone say “Trust, but verify”, and it was followed by something like,…
Our fifth museum seminar found us at the National Museum for African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). We were honored once again to have Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Deputy Director of NMAAHC, join us for the afternoon sharing both her wisdom…
By Brandon Wallace, Professor, Education In 2019, I traveled to Ghana for the Year of Return—a charge and call for people throughout the African diaspora, within the United States, to visit Ghana, one of the largest, former enslavement trading ports in…