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Mission & Staff

Mission

The Margaret Walker Center is an archive, museum, and Black Studies institute, dedicated to the preservation, interpretation, and dissemination of African American history and culture for a local and global community of students, scholars, and supporters.

 

Vision and Goals

Founded by Margaret Walker in 1968, the Center seeks to honor her academic, artistic, and activist legacy by expanding and promoting its manuscript holdings and oral history collections, interpreting African American history and culture through its museum and exhibits, coordinating public programs on campus and throughout the community, preserving historic structures central to the African American experience, and advocating for a degree-granting Black Studies program at Jackson State University.


Staff


Chioma Ajuonuma
Graduate Fellow

History & Culture Access Consortium (HCAC)
E-mail: chioma.r.ajuonuma@students.jsums.edu
Phone: 601-979-3935
Location: Ayer Hall



Alissa Rae Funderburk, MA
Mellon Oral Historian
Email: alissa.funderburk@jsums.edu
Phone: 601.979.3144
Location: Ayer Hall, 322



Patrice Jones-Gibbs, MS

Administrative Assistant/Building Administrator
Email: patrice.l.jones@jsums.edu
Phone: 601.979.2735
Location: Ayer Hall, 203



Arami Harris
Education and PR Manager
Email:
arami.l.harris@jsums.edu

Phone: 601.979.1349
Location: Ayer Hall, 320



Jasmine L. Holmes
Mellon Graduate Assistant
Email: jasmine.l.holmes@students.jsums.edu
Phone: 601.979.3935
Location: Ayer Hall



Raymond Garrad Lee, MA

Digital Humanities Program Manager
History & Culture Access Consortium (HCAC)
Email: raymond.lee@jsums.edu

Phone: 601.979.6883
Location: Ayer Hall, 315


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Robert Luckett, PhD
Director & Professor of History
Email: 
robert.luckett@jsums.edu
Phone: 601.979.3935

Location: Ayer Hall



Jaylen McDaniels
Undergraduate Fellow

History & Culture Access Consortium (HCAC)
Email: jaylen.f.mcdaniels@students.jsums.edu

Phone: 601-979-3935
Location: Ayer Hall



Jeremy McDuffey
Mellon Graduate Assistant

Email: jeremy.r.mcduffey@students.jsums.edu
Phone: 601-979-3935
Location: Ayer Hall



Angela D. Stewart, MA

Archivist
Email: angela.d.stewart@jsums.edu
Phone: 601.979.2460
Location: Ayer Hall, First Floor



Christina J. Thomas
, PhD

Mellon Visiting Scholar
Email: christina.thomas@jsums.edu
Phone: 601.979.3935
Location: Ayer Hall, Fourth Floor

Please note that, due to the storms that swept across Mississippi in mid-June and ongoing renovations from the accompanying damage, the Margaret Walker Center will be closed to in-person visitors until further notice. If you have research requests or other questions, e-mail us at mwa@jsums.edu.

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