Dr. Annalise Fonza is a 2010 Ph.D. graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an urban planning academician. As a conductor of oral histories, she has made black, urban, and local planning history intersecting features of her scholarly profile since she was a graduate student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2000-2002). Aspects of the interviews that she captured with local black Springfield residents who engaged political structures in New England were included in her dissertation, Troubling City Planning Discourses: A Womanist Analysis of Urban and Social Renewal Planning in Springfield, Massachusetts: 1960 -1980, which is archived at the Lyman and Merrie Wood Museum of Springfield History. In this presentation, Dr. Fonza will present a program featuring interviews that she conducted with black women legislators who were elected to serve the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from Beacon Hill.
Presented by Dr. Annalise Fonza, lecturer, Department of Urban & Regional Planning, California State Polytechnic University Pomona
Photo by Harold D. Smith, Jr..
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