The Monticello Advisory Committee
on African-American Intepretation
Julian Bond, Professor, University of VirginiaReginald Butler, Director, Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies, University of VirginiaAngela M. Davis, Assistant Dean of Students and Associate Professor of English, University of VirginiaRex Ellis, Director, Center for Museum Studies, Smithsonian InstitutionJames O. Horton, Professor of History in American Studies, George Washington UniversitySarah S. Hughes, Associate Professor of History (retired), Shippensburg UniversityErvin Jordan, Jr., Archivist/Historian, University of VirginiaWilliam Eric Perkins, Afro-American Studies, University of PennsylvaniaDorothy Spruill Redford, Manager, Somerset Place Historic PlaceRobert C. Watson, Assistant Professor of History, Hampton University
The Getting Word Staff
Lucia Stanton (r), Getting Word project director and the Shannon Senior Research Historian at Monticello, has been doing research on Monticello for over twenty years, with a particular interest in the plantation at large and the lives of its African-American residents.
Dianne Swann-Wright (l), project historian and the Director of Special Programming at Monticello, is an African-American historian with experience in local and regional history.
Beverly Gray (c), consultant, of Chillicothe, Ohio, has been studying African-American family histories and the settlement of former Virginia slaves in southern Ohio for over twenty years.
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