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Curriculum Vitae

MARIA HAMILTON ABEGUNDE

maehamil@indiana.edu

 

Curriculum Vitae

Research

 

 

SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS

 

Education

 

Ph.D., African American and African Diaspora Studies, 2014, Indiana University

Minor: Memory Studies

Dissertation: The Ariran’s Last Life

Examination Fields: African American and African Diaspora Studies, African American Literature, Memory Studies

Doctoral Adviser: John McCluskey, Jr.

 

M.A. with distinction, Women’s and Gender Studies, 2009, DePaul University

Thesis: When the Past Becomes [the] Present: A Personal Encounter with Memory Work

Thesis Adviser: Sandra Jackson

 

Certificate, African Studies, Summer 2004, Northeastern Illinois University

African Studies Graduate Institute

 

B.A., English, 1987, Northwestern University

Concentration:Fiction Writing  

 

Study Abroad, 1984-1985, University of Sussex, Great Britain

Concentration:African and Asian Studies

 


Birth Doula (2013), Bloomington Area Birth Services


Instructors: Georg’ann Cattelona, Ph.D., LCCE, CD (DONA) and Molly Mendota, CLS, LCCE, CD (DONA)


 


Postpartum Doula (2014), Bloomington Area Birth Services


Instructor: Debby Young, CD (DONA), PCD (DONA), LCCE


 

Undoing Racism (2012)

Instructor(s): Michael Washington, Ph.D. and Raúl Quiñones Rosado, Ph.D.

 

Community Grief and Healing (2002)

Instructor: Sobonfu Some

 

Community Grief and Healing (1998)  

Instructor: Malidoma Some and Sobonfu Some

 

 

Employment History

Executive Assistant to Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction

Evanston-Skokie School District 65, Evanston, IL (1988-2009)


Administrative Assistant to the Director/Workshop Leader

Family Focus, Evanston, IL (1986-1987)

 

 

Academic Teaching Experience  - Associate Instructor

Indiana University, Bloomington

 

Courses Designed and Taught

AAAD-A495: Individual Readings In African American Studies (Summer 2013)

AAAD-A210: Black Women in the African Diaspora (Summer 2013)

AAAD-A169: Introduction to African American Literature: Octavia Butler (2012-2013)

 

Discussion Groups Designed and Taught in Conjunction with Lectures

AAAD-A150: Survey of African American Culture (2010-2011)

 

Substitute Instructor for Department Chair

AAAD-A355: African American History 1600-1865 (October 11-25, 2012 TTh)

 

Invited Instructor (Single Topic Lecture)

AAAD-A278: Contemporary Black Film: Cleopatra Jones, Coffy, and Abby (June 2013)

AAAD-A203: Studying Blacks of the New World: Slavery, Memory, Healing (June 2013)

CMCL-C121: Public Speaking: Emotional Persuasion (November 2012)

AAAD-A169: Introduction to African American Literature: Migrations (April 2011)

REL-C-300: Religion and Race in Brazil (February 2011)

 

Middle Passage Voyage, Leg I - Puerto Rico to Brazil

Invited Lead Team Teacher (December 1998-February 1999)

·   Ship: SS Sortilege.

·   Captain: Bill Pinkney (Master of the Freedom Schooner, Amistad).

·   Supervised three teachers.

·   Liaison between subsequent teams and sponsors.

·   Developed, delivered, and taught curricula related to the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Middle Passage, via satellite and video.

·   Participants: over 100 K-12 schools, community organizations, and museums.

 

 

Field work

 

 Itaparica Bahia, Brasil (December 2011-February 2012)

·   Cultural Memory Practices in Egungun Society in Itaparica, Bahia, Brazil

·   Purpose: To study and document egungun practices related to the creation, maintenance, and transmission of cultural memory.

·   Research Questions: How do women function within the society? What is the role of the ancestors in transmitting knowledge? What is the role of the ancestor in healing the community?

·   Interviewees: Lesser-known and studied elders in Candomble.

·   Data: Formal and informal interviews, participatory research in espiritismo healing sessions at Venceslau, a recognized and protected natural reserve site of miracles, healing, and pilgrimage.

 

Perpignan, France (December 2010)

·   A Consideration of Pierre Nora’s Realms of Memory at Local Sites of Memory.

·   Purpose: To understand how embodied memories and emotions associated with them are directly linked to geography, time and space, and race and culture.

·   Primary site focus: Alfred Nobel Dynamite Factory – A healing site birthed from destruction.

·   Research Question(s): How do my experiences at these sites (and others in France and Spain) differ from my experiences with sites of memory related to slavery that I visited with UNESCO, and sites I visited in the Caribbean and Brazil?

·   Data: Informal interviews; personal journal and travel log, brochures, videos, and over 800 photographs.

 

 

selected Publications [asterik indicates refereed publication]

 

The Ariran’s Last Life (early dissertation chapter excerpts)

*Best African American Fiction. Gerald Early and Nikki Giovanni, eds. 2010. New York: Ballantine Books. 3-20.

*The Kenyon Review. Winter 2008, Volume XXX, Number 1. 145-162.

*Margin Magazine: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. 2004. http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/margin/Hamilton.html

*Warpland. Qurayshi Ali Lansana, ed. 2003. Chicago: The Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing.

 

Essays

*Sankofa in Action: Creating a Plan That Works – Healing the Causes of Violence to Stop the Violence. Black Diaspora Review. Summer 2011. Indiana: Indiana University.

 

 

Selected Exhibitions/Productions

Ancestral Masquerades. Ongoing. Project Poet for LaShawnda Crowe Storm.

Be/Coming. Special invitation. 2013. Curated by Beth Shadur, Prairie State College.

*Collaborative Vision: The Poetic Dialogue Project: Be/Coming. 2009-2012. Special invitation to be project poet for artist LaShawnda Crowe Storm. Beth Shadur, Curator. Chicago Cultural Center, Indiana State Museum, Ball State University.

Creating Community, Movement, Foundations, Scholarship, Soul: 40 Years of Black Studies at Indiana University. 2010. Curator and Researcher. Special project assigned by department chair. Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center. Indiana University.

The Divining. Theatrical Production of excerpts from The Ariran’s Last Life. Justin Merrick, director. 2010. Buskirk-Chumley Theatre. Indiana: JMUSE Productionz.

 

 

Selected Presentations (Invited)

Healing the Ancestral Way: Going Where Past and Present Lead. 2013. Indiana University Art Museum.

Dynamic Praxis: Memory, Cloth, Body, Text: Calling Egungun (the Bones) to Life. 2013. Herman C. Hudson Spring Colloquium. Indiana University.

The Ariran’s Last Life: The Healing Work of Memory. 2013. Art as a Vehicle for Change. In conjunction with The Lynch Quilts Project exhibition of the Laura Nelson Quilt. Indianapolis, IN.

Health and Healing: African-based Spirituality as a Method. Health First! A Health Fair for Women. Sponsored by A210-Black Women in the African Diaspora. Indiana University.

The Ariran’s Last Life: The Healing Work of Memory. 2012. John Hope Franklin Symposium, The Politics of Reconciliation. John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation.

What’s Love Got to Do with It: The Strength to Love in a Difficult World. 2011. Martin Luther King, Jr. Keynote Speaker, Hutton Honors College. Indiana University.

Sankofa in Action: Creating a Plan That Works - Healing the Causes of Violence to Stop the Violence. 2011. Herman C. Hudson Symposium. Indiana University.

The Life That Was My Own: Making Meaning of Memory When the Past Becomes [the] Present. Special Panel on Trauma and Memory. 2010. Modern Language Association. Rocky Mountain. New Mexico.

When the Past Becomes [the] Present: Remembering and Writing My Own Ancestral Past. 2010. Let Spirit Speak. City College of New York.

Rural Brasil and the Black Experience: Dreams Deferred – Itaparica, 2003-2005. 2010. Rural Studies Conference. Indiana University.

Be Not Afraid: Bringing the Ancestors into the Light. 2010. National Pan-Hellenic Council. Indiana University.

 

 

Occasional Standard Presentations

·   Making Memory Matter

·   Traditional African Religions: Contemporary Yoruba Ifa Practice

·   What the Body Remembers

·   Writing Poetry as a Path of Healing

 

 

Service

 

Academic

·   Advisory Committee Member. Anti-Lynching Exhibition. Indiana University Art Museum (2012-2014)

·   Department of African American and African Diaspora-Department of History Search Committee (2012)

·   Program Chair. Herman C. Hudson Symposium. Indiana University (2011)

·   Program Committee. Herman C. Hudson Symposium. Indiana University (2010)

·   Creative Consultant, JMUSE [Theatre] Productionz, Indiana University (2009, 2010)

·   Mentor: Support research, personal, and professional development of undergraduate and graduate students (2007-present)

 

Artistic

·   Founding Member, Jane’s Stories Press Foundation

·   Jane’s Stories Press Foundation Poetry Contest (2006)

·   Norcroft Silent Residency for Women Selection Committee (2001)

·   Rhino: The Poetry Forum

 

 

Community

 Advisory Boards

·   Jane’s Stories Press Foundation (2007-2009)

·   Slavery and Civil War Museum, Selma, Alabama (2005-2007)

 

Birth and Postpartum Doula (present)

·   Bloomington Area Birth Services/Blooming Families

 

 

Professional Memberships

·   Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)

·   The Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD)

·   Cave Canem

·   Jane’s Stories Press Foundation

·   Modern Language Association (MLA)

·   National Council for Black Studies (NCBS)

 

selected Featured Performances/Appearances/Interviews  (Invited)

From Visual to Verse: An Evening of African American Poetry and Art. 2013. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington.

Contemporary Black Poetry (AAAD-A479). 2013. Indiana University. Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies.

Tell Them Arroyo Sent You: A Middle Passage Voyage on Route to Brasil. 2011. WFHB, Interchange with William Morris.

Healing Mind and Body: A Memory Keeper Shares Her Story. 2010. WFHB, Interchange with William Morris”.

Voyages Home. 1999. (Emmy-award winning PBS documentary about the Middle Passage Voyage with Captain Bill Pinkney.)



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