BYU Slavery Project Ep. 485 The Cultural Hall

2:30 Matthew Mason is a professor of history at BYU. He received his PhD in history from the University of Maryland in 2002, and started at BYU in fall 2003 after a year at Eastern Michigan University. He teaches a variety of courses on the history of slavery, early America, and Britain. He has published articles in a variety of journals of national and international reach. He has written two books: Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic (2006); and Apostle of Union: A Political Biography of Edward Everett (2016). He has co-edited books including John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery: Selections from the Diary (2017); and Contesting Slavery: The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation (2008). He lives in Springville with his wife Stacie and three daughters.

Christopher Jones is an assistant professor of history at BYU, where he teaches a variety of classes, including African American Family History, Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic World, the Family and the Law in American History, and Missions and Missionaries in American History. He completed at PhD at the College of William & Mary in 2016, and spent a year as a research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s McNeil Center for Early American Studies. He is currently completing two books: a monograph on Methodism, race, and nation in the Revolutionary era and an edited collection on Protestant and Latter-day Saint missions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

6:33 Daycy De Gamez is in her senior year of her undergraduate studies, majoring in Sociology and minoring in History. She identifies as Mexican-American with parents from Chihuahua, Mexico.  Her field of interest is historical sociology, focusing on marginalized communities in the United States. She is currently working with faculty in the Diversity and Inclusion Committee in the college of Religious Education at BYU to diversify the art in the religion building on campus, and other initiatives that promote collaboration and belonging. Daycy’s research in the BYU Slavery Project includes antislavery sentiment among LDS British immigrants in the mid to late 18th century.

17:34 Abby Adams is a senior studying History at BYU. After graduation, she plans on attending graduate school in order to become a history teacher. Her nerdy goal in life is to own every history docuseries by Ken Burns. As part of the BYU Slavery Project, Abby researched racist humor at BYU in the late 19th and early 20th century. She focused on racist jokes in BYU’s student newspaper and student/faculty involvement in racist musical performances and community blackface shows.

24:43 Aïsha Lehmann is a senior at BYU majoring in Studio Art with minors in Sociology and Africana Studies. Her research for the BYU Slavery project was entitled “Race in Brigham Young Academy Curriculum: Late 19th Century White American Superiority on a Latter-Day Saint Campus”.

32:05 Ariel Munyer is a senior at BYU majoring in family history and minoring in French. She specializes in French genealogical research and enjoys working with students as a teaching assistant in a variety of family history classes. For the BYU Slavery Project she studied Brigham Young Academy’s first religion class and its treatment of race. When she isn’t at work or school she likes going on hikes and trying new foods.