Bio
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I'm Breanna Moore.
I’m currently a fifth year PhD candidate in the History Department at the University of Pennsylvania. I graduated from UPenn with majors in International Relations and African Studies in 2015.
My research interests include slavery, the transAtlantic slave trade, abolition and emancipation, and reparations in the African diaspora. My dissertation explores slave trade abolition and indemnities.
I’ve studied at the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana through the UPenn International Development Summer Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa through the Fulbright Hays Zulu Group Project Abroad, and University of Ghana Legon.
Fellowships and Awards
UPenn Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, & Immigration Turner Schulman Graduate Research Fellowship, 2023
Duke University Libraries Franklin Research Center Travel Grant, 2023
UPenn Penfield Dissertation Research Award, 2023
The Huntington Library Exchange Fellowship with Cambridge University Trinity Hall, 2023
The Huntington Library Short-Term Fellowship, 2023
The United Nations OHCHR (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights) Fellowship Programme for People of African Descent, 2022
National Humanities Without Walls Pre-Doctoral Career Diversity Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2022
International Center for Transitional Justice U.S. Fellow, 2022
Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students, 2021
Provost’s Graduate Academic Engagement Fellowship at the Netter Center, University of Pennsylvania, 2021-23
Andrew W. Mellon Doctoral Summer Research Fellowship in the Digital Humanities, University of Pennsylvania Price Lab for Digital Humanities, 2021
AADHum (African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities) Social Media Corp Fellowship, University of Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, 2021
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, 2020
Ellison Durant Smith Research Award, University of South Carolina, 2020
GAPSA-Provost Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Innovation, University of Pennsylvania, 2019-2020
Wallace E. Davies Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2019
Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2019
William Fontaine Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2019
The Malcolm X Award for Outstanding Achievement, University of Pennsylvania Makuu Black Cultural Center, May 2015
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, 2013
Avery Scholar, College of Charleston Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, 2011 – 2012
Palmetto Fellow, South Carolina Commission on Higher Education, 2011 – 2012
Grant Recipient
UPenn Sachs Curricular Support/Teaching Art Grant, 2022
UPenn SASgov Research Grant, 2021
Multimodal Ethnographic Research Grant, The Center for Experimental Ethnography UPenn, 2020
Price Lab for Digital Humanities UPenn, 2019
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship 2019-20
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship 2018-19
Commissioned Research Projects
Howard University Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center, Evanston Impact Study, Summer 2021
UPenn CEE (The Center for Experimental Ethnography) Graduate Working Group on Decolonizing Praxis and Museums, Summer 2021
University of Pennsylvania Penn and Slavery Project Augmented Reality App, 2019
Art Commissions
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology New Africa Galleries 2019
Fringe Arts and Fairmount Park Conservancy Oval+ Summer Program Performance 2019
Panels/Features
Mayor’s Commission on Faith-Based and Interfaith Affairs and The Truth Telling Project, Jan. 2023
United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent 30th Public Session "Repairing the World for the Future of Children of African Descent" panel, May 26, 2022
Reparations/Abolition Panel by Strike MoMA Working Group, April 21, 2022
WHYY Community Conversation on Reparations, April 4, 2022
Mayor’s Commission on Faith-Based and Interfaith Affairs Making a Moral Case for Reparations, December 7, 2021
N’COBRA 32nd Annual Convention "Reparations Now, More Than A Check” Intergenerational Dialogue Panel - June 25, 2021
Penn & Slavery Project’s Augmented Reality Campus Tour App Makers Panel - February 2021
UPenn School of Arts and Science Omnia Podcast: In These Times Season 2, Episode 1 “The Largest Movement in History” episode - February 2021
The Sumter Item Community Conversations - August 28, 2020
Penn Museum Living Room Lecture - June 18, 2020
Symposium: Emancipating the Colonial Exhibition of Africa in the West Artist Voices in the New Africa Galleries by UPenn Center for Africana Studies and Penn Museum - November 16, 2019
University of Pennsylvania Spectrum Panel Uncovering the Truth: Lenape Land and Penn Slavery Project - October 5, 2019
University of Pennsylvania Makuu Black Cultural Center - September 12, 2019
Penn and Slavery Symposium - April 4, 2019
Penn and Slavery Project Presentations
University of Pennsylvania - April 23, 2018
University of Pennsylvania - May 3, 2018
OWN It Summit Beauty and Image Panel - March 24, 2018
Echoes of Africa - August 19, 2017
University of Pennsylvania Africana Studies Activist in Residence Series - April 4, 2017
OWN It Upenn Summit Women and Image Panel - March 25, 2017
Cheyney University Entrepreneurship Speaker Series - March 7, 2017
Temple University International Programs Networking Event - January 25, 2017
Echoes of Africa - August 19, 2016
University of Pennsylvania Gender, Race, and Ferguson - April 7, 2015
Temple University Social Justice Panel - February 2015
Consultant
University of Pennsylvania Penn and Slavery Project Augmented Reality App, 2019
Scribe Video Center Precious Places Community History Project, 2019
Fortress Arts Academy, 2019
The Inclusive Technology and Entrepreneurship Movement (ITEM), 2019
Founder and Creative Director
LaBré
In 2016, I launched LaBré fashion line and online marketplace, LaBré Bazaar, to increase growth in Ghana through job creation and provide Ghanaian artisans and their products with increased access and exposure to the international market.
Archives:
Thread of Africa Exhibit