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2020-2022: Sophia Abrams

Sophia Abrams was Student Historian from 2020-2022 and her research centered on Black Student Artists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Sophia Abrams

Hello, I am Sophia Abrams (she/her), and I am one of the Student Historians for the University Archives for this academic year. Upon receiving this role, I was excited to have the opportunity to utilize the University Archives to discover and share important underrepresented and under-researched narratives of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Given the momentum of 2020’s resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement and COVID-19’s exceptional ability to showcase the world’s inequities, this opportunity felt relevant and essential for me on a personal level.

Read more of Sophia’s “The Storm of Ideas: From Brainstorming to Having a Research Topic“

Watch the College of Letters & Science 2022 Black History Month video featuring Sophia.

In the 2020/2021 academic year, Sophia conducted 18 oral history interviews, 17 of which will be archived (one participant withdrew from the project). A few of the oral history interviews that have been published online:

Sophia continued her work during the 2021/2022 academic year, choosing to focus on outreach and education, culminating in several exhibits Sophia curated featuring several of the Black artists Sophia had interviewed for her oral history project.

To explore more of Sophia’s work: