but i also want to give a great out to darlene clarke nine because she did she did that. charlene darlene did that multiple volume of the african-american woman and i. i have articles in one entry in there and i'm sure others here have entries in there. and the other field i to talk about is i think we are also in but we need to move further in the direction of family history. now, why is family history? well, family history is of two types. one is of the type that stefanie jones rogers talked about yesterday, which is extremely moving. but there's another family type that i think of people like tara hunter here, kind of field where were literally talking about your family and when you talk about your family because i did an article recently about my family and i want to tell you and this is another thing that i find interesting the more interdisciplinary we are with some of our things the more we learn. so my article was based on photographs of my family when they were in slavery and, so when i looked at the first photograph that was shown to me, a child, it the trial, t

medical bondage race, gender and origins of american gynecology, published in 2017, won the 2018 darlene clark book award. the age is the best book written in african-american women's history and gender history. she's also the director of the program in african-american history at the library company of philadelphia, the country's oldest institution for ali. she's working on a second book project looking at mental during the era of u.s. slavery. she's also writing a popular biography of harriet tubman that examines her through the lens of disability. she primarily teaches courses on the history of on the history of disability and medicine and we are going to go to jim downs, who's currently i forgot to mention dr. cooper, and i'll be moving to the university of connecticut, coming this fall. so she's back on the east coast. for those of you. and we are also happy to welcome first of jonathan jones, an assistant professor of history at virginia military institute in the fall of 2023. he be an assistant professor of history at james madison university. he's a historian of the u.s. civil war, spe