Panelists Friday reflected on the difficulties of reconciling the contradictions of the historical record and the need to avoid simplistic conclusions or uncritical appraisals of historical figures. The university has pledged additional institutional resources to the effort, including new investments in the Hopkins Retrospective team to include three additional permanent staff who will expand JHU's capacity for archival work and dissemination and public history education around the sustained reexamination of Hopkins history. These investigations are part of the university's pledge, made in July 2020, to examine the history of discrimination at Johns Hopkins and how the university has both reinforced discrimination and served as a force to combat it. Similarly, the Peabody Institute is in the early stages of plans for research on George Peabody, and the Homewood Museum is planning research into Samuel Wyman, whose family gifted land to Johns Hopkins University in 1902.
This includes compiling a list of collections that document exclusionary policies and practices, the transition from segregation to integration, and the rise of policies for diversity and inclusion. The team at Chesney Medical Archives at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine has identified collections that will be relevant to researchers as they assess racism and discrimination in the history of Johns Hopkins Hospital and the schools of Medicine and Public Health. The deeply researched historical examination is expected to take years to complete. Hopkins and the people who may have been enslaved by him and his family, as well as the broader story of the legacies of slavery, segregation, and racism on the university. Over the course of the past year, these historians and students working alongside them have pieced together records and data to paint a clearer picture of Mr. Hopkins founded, led by its own historians and archivists from the departments of History and the History of Medicine, as well as staff from the Sheridan Libraries and Hopkins Retrospective. Since those records came to light, Johns Hopkins faculty and staff have embarked on a multi-year investigation into the legacies of slavery and segregation on the institutions Mr.
Those and other newly discovered or examined records contradicted previous accounts of him as an early abolitionist whose father freed the family's enslaved people in the early 19th century. The event comes one year after the university announced the discovery of census records listing enslaved people among those living in the home of university founder Johns Hopkins in 18, with the latter record naming him as the slave owner. "Though we may have come late to the writing of a comprehensive institutional history in general, and attending to our connections to slavery and institutional racism in particular, we've now entered into these fields with energy," said Chris Celenza, dean of the Krieger School. Panelists included several historians from Johns Hopkins and elsewhere who are engaged in this work. The virtual event featured panels on research methodologies, how racism and slavery continue to affect institutions, and the future of such research.
Dean, Krieger School of Arts and Sciencesįriday's forum, organized by the university's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Hopkins Retrospective, explored the complexities of archival research and scholarship around the institution of slavery and its legacies at universities.
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