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CPH Lecture Series - Dr. Andrea Roberts

February 28, 2024

Please join us for the CPH Lecture Series Event on March 9th,12:30PM at The African American Library at the Gregory School, where Dr. Andrea Roberts will be giving her presentation: “ Black Places Matter! Grassroots Solutions to Preserving Our Communities.”

Dr. Andrea Roberts is Assistant Professor at Texas A & M University in the Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning Department. She was Postdoctoral fellow (Emerging Scholar in Race an Gender in the Built Environment) at the UT School of Architecture from 2016-2017. Her research and teaching examines several intersecting studies on diaspora and African American history (placemaking, planning, grassroots  "free black" community-building, and ethnographic study). 

Dr. Roberts has an ongoing digital project, "The Texas Freedom Colonies Project" which preserves the histories of Freedom Colonies or Freedmen's Colonies throughout Texas built from 1865-1910. 

The African American Library at the Gregory School is located at 1300 Cleveland Street, Houston, Texas, 77019. There is a free parking lot at the main entrance. 

Contact Dr. Monica Perales for more information and to RSVP: mperales3@uh.edu

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