REU Site: The Parker Academy: Investigating the Intersection of Freedom, Social Justice, Archaeology, History, and Geography

该项目由SBE董事会的本科生研究经验（REU）网站计划资助。因此，它具有科学和社会效益，并整合了研究和教育。这个多机构的项目是通过探索种族，性别平等和美国历史上的社会正义的重要问题，如证明了帕克学院（成立于1839年）在南部俄亥俄州从事不同的学生参与实地和档案研究。帕克学院于1892年关闭，53年来，它是导致美国内战及其后果的紧张局势和不平等的问题和解决方案的缩影。它的创始人是坚定的废奴主义者，他们冒着生命、财产和财产的危险，相信和教授人类平等;也许最有先见之明的是，他们的学院成为全国第一所容纳多种族、男女同校教室的预备学校。这些事实，加上帕克学院在俄亥俄州克莱蒙特县俄亥俄河上的确切位置，从字面上看，就在河对面，曾经是奴隶制肯塔基州，使帕克学院成为全国重要的教育，废奴主义者驱动的机构。学院，它的创始人，支持者和学生一直没有认真的学术调查的主题，直到现在。我们的初步研究和挖掘工作已经开始揭示这一里程碑。我们的项目将通过公共历史和考古学，地理，社区参与和科学教育，为帕克学院带来早就应该得到的地方和国家关注。帕克学院REU是历史学家，地理学家和人类学家（考古学和人种学）之间的合作。在三个夏天（2017年，2018年，2019年）45名本科研究员（15/年）将从事跨学科的问题为基础的研究，这将有助于自由，种族主义，性别不平等的科学和历史的理解，以及教育和历史行动主义在北美的演变。该REU的研究旨在实现四个目标：（1）促进学生深入参与实地和档案工作，这将有助于对原始科学和人文研究的联系，生产，呈现和出版方式的集中理解;此外，该计划将允许学生研究员参与公共宣传，重点关注紧迫的真实的世界问题;（2）向本科生介绍种族，性别，历史，地理，考古学和社会正义的复杂方式连接;（3）培养学生的研究策略和技能，将识别和探索这些连接超越传统的学科界限;（4）有效地衡量该项目在实现其目标，实施课程，促进学习的成功。最终，我们的目标是研究和促进创新战略的教学领域为基础的科学和评估我们的方法的教育效果的模型。

This project is funded from the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites program in the SBE Directorate. As such, it has both scientific and societal benefits, and it integrates research and education. This multi-institutional project is engaging diverse student participants in field-based and archival research by exploring important problems of race, gender equality, and social justice in American History as evidenced by the Parker Academy (founded 1839) in southern Ohio. The Parker Academy, which closed its doors in 1892 was, for 53 years, a microcosm of the problems and solutions to the divisions that led to the American Civil War and to the tensions and inequalities of its aftermath. Its founders were staunch abolitionists who risked their lives, possessions and property for believing in and teaching human equality; and perhaps most presciently for making their Academy the first preparatory school in the country to house multiracial, coeducational classrooms. These facts, together with the Parker Academy's precise location on the Ohio River in Clermont County, Ohio, literally just across the river from what was once slave-holding Kentucky, make the Parker Academy a nationally significant educational, and abolitionist-driven, institution. The Academy, its founders, supporters and students have not been the subject of serious scholarly investigation, until now. Our preliminary research and excavations have already begun to shed light on this landmark. Our project will bring long overdue local and national attention to the Parker Academy through public history and archaeology, geography, community engagement and science education.The Parker Academy REU is a collaboration among historians, geographers, and anthropologists (archaeology and ethnography). Over three summers (2017, 2018, 2019) 45 undergraduate research fellows (15/year) will engage in interdisciplinary problem-based research that will contribute to the scientific and historical understanding of freedom, racism, gender inequality, and the evolution of education and historical activism in North America. Research resulting from this REU is designed to accomplish four objectives: (1) to facilitate the in-depth involvement of students in field and archival work that will contribute to a focused understanding of the ways in which original scientific and humanistic research are linked, produced, presented and published; additionally, this program will allow student fellows to engage in public outreach focused on pressing real world problems; (2) to introduce undergraduates to the complex ways that race, gender, history, geography, archaeology, and social justice are connected; (3) to train students in research strategies and skills that will identify and explore those connections beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries; (4) to effectively measure the success of the project in achieving its goals, implementing curriculum, and facilitating learning. Ultimately, we aim to examine and contribute to a model of innovative strategies for teaching field-based sciences and for evaluating the educational effectiveness of our approach.