Student Awards
Many of the Research Fellows have won numerous awards for their work within the Parker Academy NSF REU. By sharing their work at regional and national confrences, and to even have honors bestowed upon them such as being chosen as Northern Kentucky University's Student Commencement Speaker; the fellows have alot to be proud of in their academic and research achievements. We all celebrate the success of these fellows for everything they have achieved thus far.
2019 Outstanding Oral Presentation
the Celebration of Student Research and Creativity
April 9, 2019
LIZA VANCE
2019 Outstanding Oral Presentation at the Celebration of Student Research and Creativity.
“Unearthing Resistance through Educational Equality: A Brief Look into Daily Life at the Parker Academy from Personal Correspondence and Material Culture”.
Presented on April 9, 2019.
Abstract: While the Ohio River was often the dividing line between slavery and freedom, resistance to racial prejudice was not uncommon along its banks. A vision of its founders, Daniel and Priscilla Parker, the Parker Academy fought against slavery with equal education. Established in 1839, it is believed to be the first school in the United States to offer fully integrated and co-educational classrooms. Through a multidisciplinary project funded by the National Science Foundation, research into how daily life promoted equality is obtained from archival and archaeological evidence.
“Unearthing Resistance through Educational Equality: A Brief Look into Daily Life at the Parker Academy from Personal Correspondence and Material Culture”.
Presented on April 9, 2019.
Abstract: While the Ohio River was often the dividing line between slavery and freedom, resistance to racial prejudice was not uncommon along its banks. A vision of its founders, Daniel and Priscilla Parker, the Parker Academy fought against slavery with equal education. Established in 1839, it is believed to be the first school in the United States to offer fully integrated and co-educational classrooms. Through a multidisciplinary project funded by the National Science Foundation, research into how daily life promoted equality is obtained from archival and archaeological evidence.
Northern Kentucky University Student Commencement Speaker December 2018
Andrea Shiverdecker
Video by: Dr. Douglas Hume. Northern Kentucky University Anthropology Dept. Chair. Recorded December 15, 2018 by Douglas Hume, PhD.
Kentucky Academy of Science Conference
3rd Place Anthropology
Lyndsay McNabb & Delaney Gillum
Uncovering the Women of Parker Academy
BY: LYNDSEY MCNABB and DELANEY GILLIAM, Department of History and Geography, Department of Anthropology, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky 41099.
Sponsors: Dr. William Landon and Dr. Sharyn Jones
The Parker Academy in New Richmond, Ohio was founded in 1839. The school was an open home to many children who were given opportunities that they would not have had otherwise. Parker was an institute that taught many children who came from different backgrounds, regardless of race or gender. The children were all taught in the same rooms and all had the same opportunities. With the murmurings of women’s rights, this gave the girls educated at the Academy a voice. It taught them that they too have rights to educate and to create a difference in society. With the fact that the Academy itself has almost been forgotten, so have the women who so wanted to express themselves. Through the written records of the historical archives their voices and ideas have been revitalized. Historical Archiving and detailed analysis of the students history at the academy show that even before the confirmed start date of women’s suffrage that women were already beginning to realize that they too matter. Because of their positions in society, they would then go on to be influential part of the abolitionist and the suffrage movement.
BY: LYNDSEY MCNABB and DELANEY GILLIAM, Department of History and Geography, Department of Anthropology, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky 41099.
Sponsors: Dr. William Landon and Dr. Sharyn Jones
The Parker Academy in New Richmond, Ohio was founded in 1839. The school was an open home to many children who were given opportunities that they would not have had otherwise. Parker was an institute that taught many children who came from different backgrounds, regardless of race or gender. The children were all taught in the same rooms and all had the same opportunities. With the murmurings of women’s rights, this gave the girls educated at the Academy a voice. It taught them that they too have rights to educate and to create a difference in society. With the fact that the Academy itself has almost been forgotten, so have the women who so wanted to express themselves. Through the written records of the historical archives their voices and ideas have been revitalized. Historical Archiving and detailed analysis of the students history at the academy show that even before the confirmed start date of women’s suffrage that women were already beginning to realize that they too matter. Because of their positions in society, they would then go on to be influential part of the abolitionist and the suffrage movement.
