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Fall 2021: Historic Preservation through the Mitigation of Multi-Hazard in Texas Freedom Colonies Cemeteries

Affiliations:
Project Leader: Jennifer Blanks
jenb2355@tamu.edu
Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning
Faculty Mentor: Andrea Roberts, Ph.D.
Meeting Times:
TBD
Team Size:
0
Open Spots: 0
Special Opportunities:
Earn experience in data coding and transferring, geodatabase management, identifying cultural resources, cultural heritage preservation
Team Needs:
Masters student or upper-level undergraduate, comfortable using spreadsheets, self-motivated, interested in cemetery preservation, able to commit 3hr-5hrs week
Description:
The Texas Freedom Colonies Project puts freedom colonies on the map, on policy agendas, and at the center of Texas history. Our goal is to prevent the erasure, destruction, and decay of cultural properties within Black settlements in partnership with descendant communities.
The Texas Freedom Colonies Project recently released the Texas African American Cemetery Registry. In an effort to improve the registry, we need your help identifying multi-hazards impacting burial grounds across the state of Texas to create a geodatabase

 

Written by:
Andrew McNeely
Published on:
October 4, 2021

Categories: FullTags: Fall 2021

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