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Africana Studies' Anne Rice Named HistoryMakers Master Fellow
August 27, 2025
Associate Professor Anne Rice (Africana Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies) has been awarded a second Innovations in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellowship from The HistoryMakers—the nation's largest African American video oral history archive—to support her efforts in curriculum development and creative pedagogy.
Last year, using rich primary source content from The HistoryMakers, Rice revamped her “Prison Narratives–Literary, Visual, and Virtual” course, which will be offered again in Spring 2026. This fall, she is returning as a Master Fellow to show new users how to get the most from the archive's materials.
"It is an amazing resource," Rice said. "It fills in history that largely goes unheeded or has been suppressed."
The HistoryMakers is dedicated to preserving and disseminating the untold personal stories of both well-known and unsung African Americans. The fellowship supports educators seeking to diversify curricula and foster classroom innovation through its archival materials.
"For my Prison Narratives class, the archive provided invaluable material from people who had participated and lived through the history of mass incarceration and the struggle to end it," said Rice. "These personal stories offered a context for how the prison-industrial complex has affected entire families and communities. Students met people they deeply admired who offered moving portraits of what resistance looks like in everyday acts as well as through organized struggle."
Rice has been lauded for her work organizing TEDx events at Farmington Correctional Center (Missouri) and Green Rock Correctional Center (Virginia), as well as over twelve years of teaching inside New York state prisons, including Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Westchester County.