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Alisha R. Winn PhD

Affiliated Institutions

Fayetteville State University

Community research projects focusing on immigrants in the US, heritage preservation, museums, elders and youth, and incorporating African American history and culture in the curriculum of public school systems using ethnographic research and oral narratives. Research includes the historic African American insurance company, Atlanta Life, and its multiple roles in the African American community, African American Pioneers in Anthropology,and African American working class populations related to educational disparities, employment, and identity.

Areas of Research

race, heritage preservation, identity

Publications

Horton, James Oliver. 2005. Landmarks of African American History. New York: Oxford University Press.

Jackson, Antoinette. 2009. The Kingsley Plantation Community in Jacksonville, Florida-Transition and Memory in a Southern American City, CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship. v6 (1):23-33. Winter 2009.

Greenbaum, S. 2002. More than Black: Afro-Cubans in Tampa. University of Florida Press: Gainesville, FL.

Rodriguez, Cheryl and Yvette Ginger Baber. 2002 Reconstructing a Community through Archival Research. Michael Angrisino, ed. In Doing Cultural Anthropology: Projects for Ethnographic Data Collection. Pgs. 63-70 Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press.

Shackel, Paul A. 2001 Public Memory and the Search for Power in American Historical Shircliffe, Barbara. 2001. We Got the Best of that World: A Case for the Study of Nostalgia in the Oral History of School Segregation. The Oral History Review. 28(2):59-84.

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. 1995 Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.

Winn, Alisha. 2012. The Remembering St. Petersburg Oral History Project: Youth Empowerment and Heritage Preservation Through a Community Museum. Transforming Anthropology. 20(1):67-78. April.

Projects

West Palm Beach, Florida, USA

Silence in a Pleasant City: Forgotten People in Paradise

Exploration of the challenges in the conservation, preservation, and presentation of the local history of the historic African American community of Pleasant City, in West Palm Beach, FL, and the consequences of the devalued lives of the buried African American victims in the community, from the 1928 storm in the east coast of Palm Beach County Florida.

Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States

The Transformation of Place into Space: Plight or Progress in Maintaining Heritage at an HBCU

The significance of the transformation of space into place depending upon the connection of the individuals to that space, the meaning of this transformation, and campus growth, development, and implications associated with the dismantlement of heritage of a traditional Historically Black College and University.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

The Transformation of Place into Space: Plight or Progress in Maintaining Heritage at an HBCU

The significance of the transformation of space into place depending upon the connection of the individuals to that space, the meaning of this transformation, and campus growth, development, and implications associated with the dismantlement of heritage of a traditional Historically Black College and University.

United States of America

Silence in the Classroom and the Academic Journey of Students

Exploration of students contending with self- perceptions of inferiority and learning styles, cultural and religious beliefs, affecting active involvement in the classroom and class preparation, using surveys and classroom observation.