CML scholarship featured at 20th Annual Virginia Forum

CML scholars both planners and presenters at Sweet Briar College conference

Past Event

March 13, 2025, 4:00 PM to March 15, 2025, 3:00 PM EDT

Seven scholars from the Center for Mason Legacies, along with several George Mason History colleagues, will appear on the podium at this year's Virginia Forum, hosted in 2025 by Sweet Briar College. Among them are faculty, alumni, an affiliate, and graduate and undergraduate students. CML Director George Oberle also co-chaired the Forum's program committee.

"Freedoms and Lack Thereof in Virginia, Then and Now," is the conference theme. Sweet Briar College is in the bucolic Amherst County in central Virginia. Full schedule can be viewed on conference website. Look especially for these panels featuring CML scholars and their fellow George Mason University historians: 

March 14

10:15-11:45 am

Panel 6: The Masons’ Loudoun County: Discoveries in an Early Republic Account Book

  • Moderator: CML Director George D. Oberle III
  • “The Weeping Widow Is Given a Name: Women, Family, and Property in Early 19th Century," presented by CML doctoral student Annabelle Spencer
  • Additional presenters from the George Mason Department of History and Art History include Nicole Penn and Rachel Whyte.

1:30 - 3 pm

Panel 8: Teaching Historical Methods Amidst the Digital Revolution
Steven A. Harris-Scott, Ph.D. George Mason University, Moderator

  • “Access and Utilization: The Role of Local Archives in the University Classroom,” presented by CML Affiliate Georgia Brown, archivist for the Fairfax County Circuit Court Historical Records Center
  • “From Sources to (Digital) Exhibit,” presented by CML faculty member Alyssa Fahringer
  • “Students and the Archive: Helping students make meaning from our complex past,” presented by CML Director George D. Oberle III
  • “Training Undergraduate Research Assistants: Reflections on A Digital Archive of Slavery and Medicine in Wytheville, Virginia," presented by CML alumnus Anthony Guidone, Radford University assistant professor
  • Moderator: George Mason University's Steven A. Harris-Scott, Ph.D. 

3:15-4:45 pm

Panel 11: Pursuit of Freedom: Violence, Fear and Hope

  • “The Creation of Black Mistrust in Police: An Exploration of the White Policing of Black Bodies in Fairfax County from 1801 to 1975,” presented by CML undergraduate Andrew Snowman
  • Moderator: George Mason University's Steven A. Harris-Scott, Ph.D.

 March 15

1:30-3 pm

Panel 21: Data Informed Methods for Slavery Studies in Virginia, The Nineteenth Century

  • “The Valuing of Enslaved Lives in Fauquier County, Virginia Digital Humanities Project: Design Challenges, Classroom Connections, and Public Collaborations,” presented by CML doctoral student Sheri Huerta

 

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