“The Gaps Between: Inquiry into Ida B. Wells' writing in 1886”, 2025 BMRC Fellows Fall Presentation by Mariel Rowland – Dec 12, 2025

The Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC) invites you to join us on Friday, December 12, October 29, 2025, from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM CST for a virtual presentation in the 2025 Fellows Fall Speaker Series Mariel Perkins Rowland will share the results of her research on "The Gaps Between: Inquiry into Ida B. Wells' writing in 1886."

Mariel M Perkins Rowland is a Ph.D. candidate of Culture and Theory at the University of California Irvine. Mariel’s research centers Black feminist teaching and learning practices across time and space. She studies the pedagogical work of Black women educators who lived and worked in the United States between the 19th and 21st centuries including Emma Brown (1843-1902), Ida B. Wells (1862-1931), Williana Burroughs (1882-1945), Bernice Robinson (1914-1994), Mistress Velvet (1988-2021), and Akiea Gross (teaching now). With attention to the changing legal and social context in which they lived and worked, Mariel traces the continuity of their different methods of rupture. She aims to make clear how Black women’s disruption in teaching and learning both make them visible and breaks down the attempted coherence of race and gender under capitalism. As a Black woman studying and teaching within, against, and beyond the site of US education, she asks: how does pedagogy travel through structural dislocations and unfold in collective practice?

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