{"id":5257,"date":"2012-02-22T13:16:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T18:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/?p=5257"},"modified":"2020-10-08T16:02:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T20:02:29","slug":"mith-faculty-fellow-carla-peterson-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/mith-faculty-fellow-carla-peterson-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"MITH Faculty Fellow Carla Peterson in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"alignleft size-medium-square wp-image-4969\" src=\"http:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/carla-peterson-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"Carla Peterson\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/carla-peterson-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/carla-peterson-66x66.jpg 66w, https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/carla-peterson-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/carla-peterson.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>In celebration of Black History Month, this week the University of Maryland is profiling Carla Peterson, professor of English and MITH Faculty Fellow, on her research project, <a href=\"..\/part-2-mith-faculty-fellow-answers-readers-questions-on-times-taking-questions\/\">Black Gotham Archive<\/a>. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umd.edu\/Black_History_Month\/peterson.cfm\">&#8220;Online Archive to Share Stories of 19th Century Free Blacks,&#8221;<\/a> Karen Shih, University Editor, interviews Peterson on her family history, 19th century black New Yorkers, and the origins of her digital archive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackgothamarchive.org\/\">Black Gotham Archive<\/a> is an extension of Dr. Peterson&#8217;s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/yalepress.yale.edu\/book.asp?isbn=9780300162554\">Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City<\/a> (Yale University Press, 2011). Dr. Peterson has received much well-deserved recognition for her research so far. Just last week, she was featured on The New York Times City Room Blog <a href=\"http:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/part-2-mith-faculty-fellow-answers-readers-questions-on-times-taking-questions\/\">&#8220;Taking Questions&#8221; series<\/a>, where she answered readers&#8217; questions on 19th century black New York. Tomorrow, February 23rd, Dr. Peterson will be speaking at <a href=\"http:\/\/gender.stanford.edu\/events\/recovering-lives-black-women-19th-century-carla-peterson\">The Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University<\/a>, and Saturday the 25th she will be giving a talk in Washington, DC for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/blackgothamarchive.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blackgothamarchive.org<\/a> for further details, or follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bgarchive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@bgarchive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Carla!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of Black History Month, this week the University of Maryland is profiling Carla Peterson, professor of English and MITH Faculty Fellow, on her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,70,74],"tags":[89,93],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MITH Faculty Fellow Carla Peterson in the News &ndash; Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/mith-faculty-fellow-carla-peterson-in-the-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MITH Faculty Fellow Carla Peterson in the News &ndash; 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