Andrea R. Roberts Explained

Andrea R. Roberts
Birth Place:	Sugarland, Texas
Occupation:	Educator, researcher, college professor, historian
Website:	https://andrearobertsphd.com

Andrea R. Roberts is an American educator, researcher, college professor, guest speaker, and planning historian, who is an associate professor in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning for cultural planning at the University of Virginia. Her research centers around intentional communities built by Black people. She is Co-director Center for Cultural Landscapes at the University of Virginia. She founded The Texas Freedom Colonies Project in 2014. Her work centers around unrecorded histories and endangered historic black settlements, towns known also as freedom colonies founded in 1866–1930.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]} Roberts is a 6th generation Texan. Her ancestors were enslaved Africans that founded freedom colonies.^[7]

Education

In 2016, Roberts received a Ph.D. in community and regional urban planning from the University of Texas at Austin.In 2006, she received a M.A. in government administration and public finance from the University of Pennsylvania.In 1996, received a B.A. in political science from Vassar College.^[8] oberts is a Mellon Initiative in Urban Landscape Studies Advisory Board member at DumbartonOaks. This year, Chair Bronin invited her to join the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation'sExperts Advisory Committee, charged with strengthening “bridges between the federal governmentand the research community.” This spring, she was a Visiting Scholar in Garden and LandscapeStudies at Dumbarton Oaks.

Career

Roberts' work focusses on African American identity, heritage, community development, and historic preservation.^{[9] [10]} In 2014, Roberts founded the Texas Freedom Colonies Project. The project documents African American colonies also known as settlements that developed after emancipation. The project's initiative is to protect endangered African American history and to educate the public. The project has an atlas that maps Texas Freedom Colonies.^{[11] [12] [13] [14]}

In 2016–17 she was Emerging Scholar Fellow in Race and Gender in the Built Environment of the American City, at Austin, Texas' School of Architecture.^{[15] [16] [17]} Roberts is an author who has written numerous articles about African American settlements.^[18]

External links

• Andrea Roberts – Oral History training
• Juneteenth Coffee Talks – Freedom colonies
• Bastrop County Freedom Colonies

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Texas Freedom Colonies Project – ANDREA ROBERTS .
2. Web site: TSHA | Freedmen's Settlements .
3. Web site: Texas Freedom Colonies . 25 August 2018 .
4. Web site: Search Result | Sage.
5. Web site: DIRECTORY. Association of Critical Heritage Studies.
6. Web site: Andrea Roberts, "The Community Core: Making and Keeping Place Heritage in Texas's Freedom Colonies". Harvard Graduate School of Design.
7. Web site: Andrea Roberts | CPCRS. cpcrs.upenn.edu.
8. Web site: About the Founder/Director .
9. Web site: Putting Freedom Colonies on the Map. American Planning Association.
10. Web site: Andrea Roberts – Division of Research. vpr.tamu.edu.
11. Web site: Seminar: Dr. Andrea Roberts on Co-Creating Counternarratives. myUMBC.
12. Web site: Read, Hot and Digitized: The Texas Freedom Colonies Project | TexLibris . 21 January 2022 .
13. Web site: Andrea Roberts – Division of Research .
14. Web site: Andrea Roberts | Houston Seminar. August 14, 2022.
15. Web site: The UVA School of Architecture welcomes Dr. Andrea Roberts as Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning .
16. Web site: Andrea Roberts Is Working to Define What Free Black Space Is. DaLyah. Jones. July 23, 2020. The Texas Observer.
17. Web site: ANDREA ROBERTS. November 30, 2022. University of Virginia School of Architecture.
18. Web site: Andrea R. Roberts. scholar.google.com.