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Inclusive Scholarship: Developing Black Studies in the United States 207 ized in the short time since Reginald Butler was named Director in 1996. The Ford-funded seminar originally proposed by Butler as the“Chesapeake Regional Seminar in Black Studies” is now titled “Rethinking African American Studies: The Chesapeake Regional Scholars Summer Seminar.” The seminar brought twelve faculty fellows from the Chesapeake region to the University of Virginia for three-week seminars in 1997, 1998, and 1999 “Rethinking African American Studies” considered how changing conceptions of race will reshape African American Studies and was led by faculty in Anthropology, Architecture, Archaeology, English, History, and Music. The participants—faculty who teach the humanities in small liberal arts colleges and universities, primarily HBCUs—studied the Chesapeake region with scholars and historians specializing in the area. They were introduced to the research projects that those scholars developed and the electronic technology many of them had begun using. The “annual threeweek seminar include[d] lectures, workshops, field trips, and hands-on training in the use of World Wide Web resources and the creation of online teaching materials.” 30 The Chesapeake scholars have since used electronic mail and the World Wide Web to continue their discussions and communication after the seminars. Notably, in 1999, the seminar was titled “Rethinking African American Studies: Archival Research in the Digital Age.” As director,Butler notes that the model for the program grew from“the success of a long-term partnership between [the Woodson Institute] and the Southeastern Regional Seminar in African Studies (SERSAS) [which] was organized in the early 1970s by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) as one of a series of regional seminars intended to provide a new generation of African Studies pioneers with regular opportunities for interaction with their peers.” 31 Indeed, the Woodson Institute hosted several SERSAS meetings, even after SSRC funding had ended. The Chesapeake Regional Seminar, conceived by Butler, operated under the direction of an advisory board. To expand its resources and outreach,the seminar routinely invited scholars and historians to discuss their research with the Chesapeake Fellows 32 — effectively integrating the work of UVa scholars using the Web to interact with others around the country in innovative ways. An Emerging Scholars Program created in UVa’s History department to train undergraduates in historical
208 Inclusive Scholarship: Developing Black Studies in the United States research methods and digital history worked on the Holsinger Project (an archive of nine thousand images from a nineteenth century photographer’s collection in Charlottesville) and the Venable Lane Project (a study of Charlottesville’s African American community in the nineteenth century). Other Woodson, predoctoral (two year),and postdoctoral (one year) fellows, and visiting scholars also provided an intellectual resource for the Woodson seminars. The University of Virginia is interested in a regional consortium, what Butler calls “a springboard for other collaborative ventures” 33 between the Woodson Institute and such participating institutions as Virginia State, Hampton, Norfolk State, Virginia Commonwealth, Virginia Union, Fayetteville State, Salisbury State, and Delaware State Universities. As a permanent regional consortium, these schools would share resources and develop programs related to African and African American Studies. The Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia The Woodson Institute is an interdisciplinary research center founded in 1981 in honor of Carter G. Woodson, the African American Virginia-born scholar who pioneered African American and African Studies. Faculty members have joint appointments and are tenured in departments. In 1995, when the Institute’s director, Armstead Robinson, died at age 49, the faculty reported their concern about the status and survival of the Institute. Paula McClain, former Chair of the Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, chaired the search committee for Robinson’s replacement and, along with her committee, nominated Reginald Butler as Director. She reported that faculty had been quite concerned about the status of the Institute. Associate Professor of History Butler has proven to be a forceful and effective director. He has been an intellectual leader in conceptualizing such programs as the Chesapeake Seminar. He responded to the Foundation’s “Crossing Borders: Revitalizing Area Studies” initiative with a proposal titled “Changing Cultures of Race in the Pan-Atlantic World.” Although that proposal was unsuccessful, Butler has offered Program Officer Margaret Wilkerson an alternative proposal under the Afro-American Studies initiative. He has forged new interactions with Women’s Studies including cross-
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