Anita Gonzalez is a Professor of Performing Arts and Black Studies at Georgetown University. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and her most recent book is Shipping Out: Race, Performance and Labor at Sea. The current Black Folkways project is a community-driven public humanities initiative that uses spatial storytelling and oral histories to document and preserve Black cultural and environmental knowledge across coastal landscapes in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay region, Washington D.C., and Cat Island in the Bahamas.
