Photo from Little Manila Rising, littlemanila.org Filipina American, History, Historic Preservation, Activism, Education Dawn Mabalon (1972-2018) Dr. Dawn Mabalon was born in 1972 in Stockton, California, the daughter and granddaughter of Filipino American farmworkers. A passionate scholar who cared deeply about Filipino American history, Dawn Mabalon’s background and love for her roots shaped both her …
Edward J. Cabbell at Concord College, Athens, W. Va. Collection Number: A&M 217. Identifier: 038004. Image courtesy of West Virginia and Regional History Center, WVU Libraries African American, History, Cultural Activism, Literature Edward J. Cabbell (1946-2018) Ed Cabbell was a historian and folklorist of the traditions of Black Appalachia (Affrilachia) and brought the stories and …
Albert J. Raboteau in his office at Princeton University in 2013. Photo credit Kyle Christy/Loyola Marymount University African American, Religion, History Albert Jordy Raboteau II (1943-2021) Albert J. Raboteau II was a founder of African American religious studies. His meticulous research and publications, anchored in the voices and historical documents of African Americans, dispel negative …
John Blassingame, while he was a professor of history at Yale University. Photographer unknown. African American, History John Blassingame (1940-2000) John Wesley Blassingame transformed the scholarly knowledge and perception of the lives, cultures, and traditions of 19th century African Americans through his meticulous research examining documents that revealed the voices and thoughts of enslaved people. …
Ronald Takaki at Northeastern University, 16 October 2007. Photograph by Eddric Le. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. Japanese American, History Ronald Takaki (1939-2009) Dr. Ronald Takaki was a leading scholar on U.S. race relations and American multicultural studies. A historian and an ethnographer, he established the nation’s first …
Photo from the University of California Riverside African American, History P. Sterling Stuckey (1932-2018) Dr. Ples Sterling Stuckey, Jr. contributed to transforming scholarship on slavery from speculations by plantation owners to a focus on the voices, identities, and cultural practices of enslaved people. He was born in 1932 in Memphis, Tennessee, to Ples Sterling Stuckey, …
Photographer unknown; promotional image used in many publications. Puerto Rican, Material Culture, Folklore, History Teodoro Vidal Santoni (1923-2016) A self-taught historian, Teodoro Vidal Santoni uncovered more than four centuries of Puerto Rican culture, traditions, and popular art, and raised them to international recognition. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Vidal Santoni attended the …
Image from NC State Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, https://lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/awards/scholarly/Naff.php Arab American, History Alixa Naff (1919-2013) Dr. Alixa Naff was a pioneering historian widely known as the founder of Arab American Studies. She not only documented the lives of the first Syrian and Lebanese Americans, but also illuminated the experiences of first generation non-European …
Portrait of Dr. Lawrence D. Reddick, professor of history. Courtesy of Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, PA. African American, Ethnography, History Lawrence Reddick (1910-1995) Dr. Lawrence Dunbar Reddick was an internationally acclaimed historian, intellectual, and educator. His transformative documentation of the lives, struggles, and cultures of Black people spans much of the …
Image from Southern University and A&M College, https://www.subr.edu/page/2510 African American, Ethnography, History John Brother Cade (1894-1970) John Brother Cade led one of the earliest oral history collections of ex-slave narratives in the United States. Born near Elberton, Georgia, in 1894, he graduated from Knox Institute and Industrial School in Athens, Georgia in 1915. After he …