Teacher. Scholar. Mentor.
P. Gabrielle Foreman, PhD, is an award-winning professor of English, African American Studies, and History. A leader in the field of Black digital and public history, Dr. Foreman has been recognized for co-creating projects that build community and institutions while addressing pipeline and equity issues.
Founding Faculty director of the nationally acclaimed Colored Conventions Project
Founding co-director of the Center for Digital Black Research/#DigBlk
MacArthur Fellow
Paterno Family Chair of Liberal Arts, Penn State University
As a teacher, scholar, and mentor, Dr. Foreman is committed to creating, sustaining, empowering, and recovering collectives that are working not only for inclusion and equity — but for justice. She publishes extensively on issues of race, reform, and resistance in the nineteenth century, focusing on the past’s continuing hold on the world we inhabit today.
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Workshops
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Public History Projects
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Books
New Book
Praise Songs for Dave the Potter
Art and Poetry for David Drake
The artistic legacy of one of the most innovative and creative Black artists of the nineteenth century.
“Praise Songs for Dave the Potter is a long overdue love letter to one of the few enslaved folks whose art made it into this moment in time.” —Jacqueline Woodson, author of the National Book Award-winning Brown Girl Dreaming
“Dr. Foreman is a brilliant thinker whose collaborative leadership has significantly shaped scholarship across disciplines.”
— Dr. Kate Masur, Northwestern University
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