Nicole Burrowes

Nicole Burrowes is a fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia (UVA) and a PhD candidate in history at the CUNY Graduate Center. During the summer of 2014, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Mississippi Freedom Project, she co-taught a multimedia undergraduate course at UVA entitled “Freedom Summer” which included movement history, a service-learning component, a moving classroom and discussion on current issues facing black communities.She has a history of involvement with contemporary models of Freedom Schools: for ten years she worked with Sista II Sista Freedom School for Young Women of Color in Bushwick, Brooklyn, which she cofounded, and early in her career, she served as a field staff for the Children’s Defense Fund’s Freedom Schools initiative in Harlem. Her research interests include social and labor movements in the African Diaspora, intersectionality, Latin American and Caribbean history and the politics of solidarity. She recently co-authored an article for the Fall 2014 issue of Southern Quarterly entitled: “Freedom Summer and Its Legacies in the Classroom.”