{"id":28,"date":"2025-01-15T05:10:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T05:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parsons.edu\/africanarchive\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2026-01-20T14:20:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:20:47","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/parsons.edu\/africanarchive\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the Course"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"28\" class=\"elementor elementor-28\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-237b64c1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"237b64c1\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-71c158e4\" data-id=\"71c158e4\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-35015baf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"35015baf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This course draws inspiration from a co-taught seminar entitled, &#8220;The African Archive Beyond Colonization&#8221; co-created by <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahderbew.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Dr. Sarah Derbew<\/u><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (Assistant Professor of Classics, Stanford University) and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newschool.edu\/parsons\/faculty\/denise-lim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Dr. Denise L. Lim<\/u><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (Assistant Professor of Black Material and Visual Cultures, The New School\u2019s Parsons School of Design) in the fall 2021 quarter at Stanford University. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Between May 2021 to August 2022, Dr. Lim was a BIPOC curatorial postdoctoral fellow with the Stanford University Archaeology Collections (SUAC), and was commissioned to research, curate, and teach from SUAC\u2019s African collections, which included over 856 cultural objects from over 10 different African countries. Dr. Lim collaborated with Dr. Derbew to create a course that offered students practical cultural heritage training in research, exhibition design and planning, and curatorship. Co-instruction was a key strength of this course that encompassed a wide range of geographic regions, time periods, and cultures. 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