# positions[].organizations[].label
Center for Housing and Urban Development

# positions[].organizations[].label
Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning

# overview
Dr. Andrea Roberts is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at Texas A&M University. She is also the founder of The Texas Freedom Colonies Project, a research & social justice initiative documenting Black placemaking history and grassroots preservation. Dr. Roberts engages in ethnographic, archival, and action research using digital humanities platforms to make marginalized groups' endangered places visible and relevant to scholars, policymakers, and practitioners. Dr. Roberts has written peer-reviewed articles on black placemaking history and practice, digital engagement, intersectionality, and preservation policy. Her current project is a book on Black historic preservation practice. The Urban Affairs Association recognized her with the 2019 Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Honorable Mention Award. She is also a 2020 Visiting Scholar at Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and a 2019 recipient of a National Trust African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund grant.  Dr. Roberts earned a Ph.D. in community and regional planning at The University of Texas at Austin.

# researchAreas[].label
Society for American City and Regional Planning History

# keywords[]
Critical Geography; Texas Freedom Colonies Project; Heritage; Preparedness; Community Archives

# keywords[]
4302 Heritage, Archive And Museum Studies

# educationAndTraining[].organization.label
University of Pennsylvania - (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States)

# educationAndTraining[].organization.label
The University of Texas at Austin - (Austin, Texas, United States)

# educationAndTraining[].organization.label
The University of Texas at Austin - (Austin, Texas, United States)

# educationAndTraining[].organization.label
Vassar College - (Poughkeepsie, New York, United States)

# awardsAndHonors[].label
Honorable Mention - Activist Scholar Award

# publications[].label
The Gulf Coast Heritage Preparedness Initiative: Proposal to the Texas A&M University President's Excellence Fund

# publications[].label
Preservation without Representation: Making CLG Programs Vehicles for Inclusive Leadership, Historic Preservation, and Engagement

# publications[].label
Race and Spatial Imaginary: Planning Otherwise

# publications[].label
Black Georgetown remembered: A history of its black community from the founding of "The Town of George" in 1751 to the present day.

# publications[].label
Contending with the Palimpsest: Reading the Land through Black Women's Emotional Geographies

# publications[].tags
16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

# publications[].label
Adaptive liminality: Bridging and bonding social capital between urban and rural Black meccas

# publications[].label
When Does It Become Social Justice? Thoughts on Intersectional Preservation Practice

# publications[].publisher
National Trust for Historic Preservation

# publications[].label
THE TEXAS FREEDOM COLONIES PROJECT ATLAS & STUDY

# publications[].label
Documenting and Preserving Texas Freedom Colonies

# publications[].label
Count the Outside Children! Kinkeeping as Preservation Practice Among Descendants of Texas' Freedom Colonies

# publications[].label
Contending with the Palimpsest: Reading the Land through Black Women's Emotional Geographies

# publications[].label
Performance as place preservation: The role of storytelling in the formation of Shankleville Community's Black counterpublics

# publications[].label
Social Justice & Inclusion in Historic Preservation: A Bibliography

# publications[].label
The Fifth Street Neighborhood Plan & Market Study A Report on the Fifth Street Planning Process for Fort Bend County, Texas

# publications[].publisher
Center for Sustianable Development, University of Texas at Austin, College of Architecture

# publications[].label
The End of Bootstraps and Good Masters: Fostering Social Inclusion by Creating Counternarratives

# publications[].label
The Farmers' Improvement Society and the Women's Barnyard Auxiliary of Texas: African American Community Building in the Progressive Era

# publications[].label
Capturing Volunteered Historical Information: Lessons from Development of a Local Government Crowdsourcing Tool

# publications[].label
Remixing as Praxis Arnstein's Ladder Through the Grassroots Preservationist's Lens

# publications[].label
Preservation at the Intersections: Patterns of Disproportionate Multihazard Risk and Vulnerability in Louisiana's Historic African American Cemeteries

# publications[].tags
16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

# publications[].label
TX Freedom Colonies Project's Plan to Preserve Endangered Historic Black Settlements & Cemeteries

# publications[].label
Contending with the Palimpsest: Reading the Land through Black Women's Emotional Geographies

# publications[].label
A Smart City Remembers Its Past: Citizens as Sensors in Survey and Mapping of Historic Places

# publications[].label
A Texas city discovered a mass grave of prison laborers. What should it do with the bodies?

# publications[].label
Black Placemaking in Texas: Sonic and Social Histories of Newton and Jasper County Freedom Colonies

# publications[].publisher
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

# publications[].label
Interpretations & Imaginaries: Toward an Instrumental Black Planning History

# publications[].label
Integrity as Process and Feature: Cultural Landscapes of Underrepresented Communities

# publications[].label
Demystifying Academic Writing in the Doctoral Program: Writing Workshops, Peer Reviews, and Scholarly Identities

# publications[].label
"Until the Lord Come Get Me, It Burn Down, Or the Next Storm Blow It Away" The Aesthetics of Freedom in African American Vernacular Homestead Preservation

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
National Trust for Historic Preservation - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States)

# researcherOn[].label
The Gulf Coast Heritage Preparedness Initiative

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States)

# teachingMaterials[].label
Social Justice & Inclusion in Historic Preservation: A Bibliography

# streetAddress
Texas A&M University; Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning; 3137 TAMU

# organizations[]
Center for Housing and Urban Development

# organizations[]
Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning

# inTheNews[].label
Andrea Roberts Is Working to Define What Free Black Space Is

# inTheNews[].label
Freedom Colonies Provide Unique Learning Opportunity For Students

# etdChairOf[].label
Lennox, Judanne Sharone (2020-04). Evaluating CERTS' Spatial Relationship to Marginalized and Unmapped Communities. Master's Thesis.

# websites[].label
Freed Slave Settlements Provide Unique Learning Opportunity For Texas A&M Students