Join us, Monday, November 25, 2024 at 4pm ET for a fellow’s forum with Jameta Barlow, associate professor of writing in The George Washington University's University Writing Program and Women's Leadership.
Held in the Berkeley Conference Room of the Jefferson Library, ICJS fellow’s forums are free and open to the public, no registration required. The forum lasts one hour and involves both a presentation from our fellow as well as an opportunity for questions and discussion.
About the Presentation
It is widely documented that Thomas Jefferson was a scientist, inventor, and patron of science who not only was a keen observer of nature, but used botany, meteorology, astronomy and surveying to further his passion about science and knowledge. His inventions, work in agriculture, archeological methods and architecture designs furthered this passion. This project engages with Jefferson Quotes and Family Letters, Retirement Series and the Plantation database materials and African American Oral History Project to interrogate Thomas Jefferson’s values, beliefs, knowledge production and approaches to science and health for himself, his family and the enslaved populations on his plantation. As a Charlottesville native, the goal is to provide a landscape of health and approaches to health during the time of advances in science and the legacy of slavery. I will align the primary source material with policies to better understand the processes contributing to science and health. My next book project will employ and engage in critical fabulation to re-present information, sequence of events and divergent narratives. I will make visible the production of Black women’s bodies as disposable, when not profitable. This practice
About Jameta Barlow
Jameta Nicole Barlow, PhD, MPH, RYT® 200, a Charlottesville, Virginia native, is a community health psychologist and an associate professor of writing in The George Washington University's University Writing Program and Women's Leadership Program. She holds secondary appointments in the Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Milken Institute of Public Health. Her research utilizes decolonizing methodologies to disrupt cardiometabolic syndrome and structural policies adversely affecting Black girls' and women's health, intergenerational trauma and perinatal mental health. Dr. Barlow uses Black Feminisms and Womanism to theorize, implement and evaluate methodologies, interventions and policies for Black girls and women. With professional experiences in federal government, national nonprofits and academia, she has spent 24 years in transdisciplinary collaborations with physicians, public health practitioners, researchers, policy administrators, activists, political appointees, and community members in diverse settings throughout the world. Dr. Barlow holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English from Spelman College, a Master of Public Health (MPH) in Maternal and Child Health from The George Washington University and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Psychology from North Carolina State University.