Builders and Defenders
Meet the Team!
Builders and Defenders: A Black Nashville Civil War Database is a truly collaborative project. Conversations with descendants and members of Nashville’s public history community shaped the types of data collected and the way the data is structured and organized, and this is reflected in the name of it. Below, please meet the members of the database project and the invaluable partners and collaborators who made this research possible!
The Team
Angela Sutton
Director
Vanderbilt University
Jim Schindling
System Architect / GIS Consultant
Vanderbilt University
Partners
Advisory Board
Jeneene Blackman
Descendant
Gary Burke
Descendant
Dr. Eleanor Fleming
Descendant
Krista Castillo
Former Curator, Fort Negley Park Visitors Center
Taneya Koonce
Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society
Dr. Learotha Williams
North Nashville Heritage Project, Tennessee State University Department of History, Political Science, Geography, and Africana Studies