Conversations In Indiana African American History & Culture 8/21/2025

Join us for our monthly conversation with historians, researchers, and educators as we discuss topics related to Indiana’s Black heritage.

Our presenters, Drs. Michelle Daniel Jones and Elizabeth Nelson will discuss the Indiana Women's Pr*son History Project, a group of currently and formerly incarcerated scholars who research and publish original histories of gender, race, and incarceration in Indiana. Daniel Jones and Nelson will explore the process of doing history inside the Indiana Women's Pr*son that led to the publication of their co-edited volume, Who Would Believe a Prisoner?: Indiana Women's Carceral Institutions, 1848-1920 (The New Press, 2023).

• In Person: Doors open at 5:30 p.m. at Indiana Landmarks Center and talk begins at 6:00 p.m.
• Online: Livestream will begin at 6:00 p.m.

No need to request both an in person and online ticket! We’ll send the online access link (2 hours prior) to everyone , just in case your plans change.

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Professor Nelson is an Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities and Health Studies at Indiana University, Indianapolis. A historian of medicine, Nelson studies rehabilitative institutions, such as mental hospitals and prisons, and explores how people carve out bold and meaningful lives in the most inhospitable spaces. Nelson is currently working on a collaborative book project on the final years and 1994 closure of Indiana’s Central State Hospital. She also coordinates the Indiana Women's Pr*son History Project and is co-founder of FIRE (Formerly Incarcerated, Radically Empowered), an organization that seeks to address mental health after incarceration.

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