Museum Exhibitions
MISSISSIPPI CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM
Independent Scholar, Opening, 2017
CORNING MUSEUM
King Cotton—The Art and the Power, April 2017
B.B. KING MUSEUM
Advisory Board, Indianola, Mississippi 2013
NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Planning board member for November 2006 Slavery Exhibition: Commerce and Conscience 2006
DOCKERY FARM FOUNDATION, Dockery MS 2006
Founding Board Member
Wrote application that garnered MS historical landmark designation as site where the blues originated.
THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR CENTER, AT HISTORIC TREDEGAR 2009
Advisory Board Member
TREDEGAR MUSEUM
Contributing Scholar to Civil War exhibition, Richmond, Virginia 2006
Research Endowments
YALE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS
Funded research fellowships for Yale undergraduate students (Jewish and African American) to study Mississippi Delta Culture and Heritage.
Recent fellowships include:
Mississippi Delta Blues – Audio documentary
The Women of St. Gabriel’s Mission, Mound Bayou Art and Oral History Project
- Student Participants: Elizabeth Wilkins, Anna Preus, Lisa Alford, Annie Rosenzweig
- Project Director Dr. Luther Brown, Delta State University
The Art of the Women of St. Gabriel’s Mission, Mound Bayou