dann j. Broyld
dann j. Broyld is an Associate Professor in African American History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He completed his doctoral work in Nineteenth Century United States and African Diaspora History at Howard University. His work focuses on transnational migration and identity in the American Canadian borderlands.
Broyld researches in: Nineteenth Century African American History, Black Diaspora History, United States History, Canadian History, and Public History, issues of race, gender, and class, borderlands and transnational studies as well as resistance to enslavement via flight and more recently in Afrofuturism.
He also works in Museum Studies and Material Culture. His work in transnational studies specifically examines how Blacks retain significant ties to places they no longer resided.
Broyld’s chief interests can be encapsulated in a few basic questions:
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How did Blacks resist bondage, from silent sabotage to running away, and where did they seek to go to reach the “outer spaces of enslavement”?
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How did Blacks manage to reconstruct their lives in new locations and “host” nations?
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What social and cultural attributes did they maintain despite of crossing regional and national borders?
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And how do Black social networks undermine the integrity of formalized borders?
11-14 April ‘24
Organization of American Historians Conference
Panel: “The Burned-Over District Then and Now”
New Orleans, LA