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Erin Rowe and Martha Jones converse via Zoom

University history

Piecing together hard history

Published Dec 4, 2021

Johns Hopkins University faculty and others explore the complexities of archival research and scholarship as part of a long-term examination of the institution of slavery and its legacies at universities

Clockwise from top left: Levi Watkins, Ernest Bates, Frederick Scott, and Florence Bascom

Names+Narratives

Hopkins to honor four pioneering figures from its history

Published Oct 29, 2021

Campus buildings, facilities to be named for Ernest Bates, Florence Bascom, Frederick Scott, and Levi Watkins in recognition of their achievements and contributions to the university

Guidelines for renaming or de-naming campus buildings, programs adopted

Published Oct 27, 2021

Recommendations from a report authored by the Committee to Establish Principles on Naming include the creation of a Name Review Board made up of representatives from across the Hopkins community

Draft guidelines issued for renaming or de-naming campus features

Published April 6, 2021

The Committee to Establish Principles on Naming seeks feedback on its proposals from the Johns Hopkins community

Hopkins Retrospective

Documents prompt reexamination of history of university's founder

Published Dec 9, 2020

Census records and additional research provide evidence that Johns Hopkins was a slaveholder during the mid-1800s, in contrast to the longstanding narrative that he was an early abolitionist whose father freed the family's enslaved people decades earlier

Group to develop guidance for evaluating renaming requests

Published Oct 14, 2020

The work of the Committee to Establish Principles on Naming will shape future decisions about how and whether to alter the names of existing facilities, professorships, scholarships, fellowships, and programs