• Project Title: Exploring the Roots of Freedom: Augmented Reality Tour for Mitchelville South Carolina Gullah-Geechee Heritage Site • Institution: Florida Atlantic University, College of Arts & Letters, School of Communication & Multimedia Studies. • Project Director: Christopher Maraffi, [email protected] • Grant Program: Digital Projects for the Public: Discovery Grants Application Narrative

A) Nature of the request Florida Atlantic University (FAU) requests an NEH Digital Projects for the Public Discovery grant in the amount of $30,000 to develop design documents for Exploring the Roots of Freedom: Augmented Reality Tour for Mitchelville South Carolina Gullah- Geechee Heritage Site, a transmedia project consisting of a site-specific augmented reality tour application, a portable augmented reality museum installation, and a 360- degree interactive web site. Augmented reality technology overlays interactive media on a live camera feed from a mobile device or a headset like the Magic Leap One or Microsoft HoloLens, so that virtual structures and figures appear to inhabit the surrounding environment. We have assembled an interdisciplinary team of digital media and humanities faculty from four universities, preservation institutions, and industry leaders in emerging technologies, to develop an engaging experiential learning application for visitors to an important site related to Reconstruction-era history and African American culture.

Mitchelville was the first Freedman’s town in the United States during the Civil War, a central feature of the Port Royal Experiment in African American self-governance, and now a Gullah-Geechee heritage site on Hilton Head Island South Carolina. Our project is to create an augmented reality tour application that will immerse site visitors in Mitchelville’s rich history and culture. Tourists will be able to literally follow in the footsteps of figures from history, picking up virtual 3D artifacts to examine, and interact with historical personalities like Harriet Tubman, General Mitchel, and Robert Smalls. The augmented reality tour will feature Gullah-Geechee storytelling and dance performances to make the experience more culturally diverse and authentic for year- round visitors to the park. Our goal is to present Reconstruction history as both educational and entertaining for visitors to a heritage site, while digitally preserving its cultural assets for future generations, and improving attendance so the tours become self-sustaining. We are collaborating with History and African American Studies faculty from University of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB) and Coastal Carolina University (CCU), the Mitchelville Preservation Project, and Reconstruction National Monument sites in Beaufort County South Carolina like the Penn Center to develop the humanities content of this project.

We plan to produce a basic self-guided augmented reality tour for mobile phones that will be freely downloadable on app stores, and a deluxe guided tour for small groups that will utilize Magic Leap headsets for a rental price of about $15 per visitor. Magic Leap headsets have the capabilities to spatially map the environment in ways that can’t be done by standard mobile devices, allowing us to augment the site with 3D content in a more believable way, while using the tour proceeds to update and maintain the site technology. The Mitchelville tour is a flagship project in a new educational partnership between FAU and Magic Leap, one of the world leaders in spatial computing technology, and who has offered to provide technical support for developing the paid tour app. We are also working with computer science faculty who specialize in interactive media research from North Carolina State University and University of South Carolina Beaufort, and who are also partnering with Magic Leap. Our Media, Technology, and Entertainment MFA faculty and graduate students will be using their multimedia production expertise to design the augmented reality experience, starting with preproduction concept art and storyboards, and a proof-of-concept for the technical approach. Although this project is on the cutting edge of emerging technologies, we have the interdisciplinary team of digital artists and technologists to successfully create a new way of experiencing and learning history in Mitchelville.

To reach a wider audience and encourage people to visit the physical site, we will also explore creating a portable Mitchelville exhibit-installation that will demo some of the augmented reality tour scenes in a museum or gallery space. Since FAU multimedia and computer science faculty already partner with the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Discovery and Science (MODS), Daruma Tech, and Magic Leap to teach augmented reality to high school students in the MODS App-titude Internship program, we plan to have MODS summer school students contribute to the Mitchelville augmented reality museum exhibit. Ideally, we would like such an exhibit to travel widely to campuses, libraries, and museums around the country, such as the International African American Museum in Charleston. To distribute the content even further to the public, we plan to design a web site that will feature 360-degree video of the site, with some of the augmented reality tour content embedded in the media, with point-and-click documentary supplements and interactive timelines. We will be working with South Carolina Educational Television (SCETV) and USCB broadcasting faculty and students to produce educational video in the Beaufort SCETV production facility.

B) Humanities content Historic Mitchelville was the first Freedman’s town in the US, even before the Emancipation Proclamation (Jan 1st 1863) during the Civil War, in Union occupied Hilton Head Island South Carolina. Founded by General Ormsby Mitchel in late 1862, the town was occupied and run by former coastal slaves collectively known today as Gullah-Geechee. Mitchelville, as a central feature of the Port Royal Experiment (1862- 65) in self-governance, was a significant milestone in African-American history. The Gullah-Geechee inhabitants of the town had unique styles of rhythmic dance, music, and storytelling, such as the Ring Shout, that became central to the Southern roots of African-American culture. Harriet Tubman, famed Underground Railroad freedom fighter, was assigned to the Port Royal area to serve as a nurse, and while on Hilton Head Island visited Mitchelville. After Reconstruction during the Jim Crow years in South Carolina at the end of the nineteenth century, Mitchelville became abandoned and forgotten as inhabitants migrated North to Charleston and beyond, but a century later renewed local research and archaeology are restoring its important legacy.

Today, Mitchelville Freedom Park is a Gullah-Geechee heritage site being revived by the Mitchelville Preservation Project and Hilton Head Chamber of Commerce. The original site structures have long since vanished, but information outposts inform visitors of the park’s rich history, and annual Gullah-Geechee special events feature physical tours and storytelling performances. To develop the content of the tour, we will be meeting with humanities and digital media faculty from four universities, the Mitchelville Preservation Project, and preservationists from related Reconstruction National Monument sites. In this first exploratory phase, our objective is to develop a narrative for the Mitchelville tour that furthers the discussion started by recent critical documentaries like Reconstruction: America After the Civil War by Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. on PBS, and Reconstruction 360 on South Carolina Educational Television web site. These new documentaries tell African-American stories that were actively suppressed in the South through Jim Crow-era revisionist history, and forgotten by much of the rest of the nation.

Mitchelville and the Port Royal Experiment was one of those forgotten stories of African American self-governance that wasn’t fully covered in these other documentaries because it occurred before the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. This project is unique in several ways compared to other educational media on Reconstruction. We will look more closely at Coastal Carolina history from the years 1861-1865, especially related to Mitchelville, the Port Royal Experiment, and the story of Robert Smalls, a Gullah- Geechee born into slavery in Beaufort, who emancipated himself and family members when he commandeered a Confederate war ship to escape to Union occupied Hilton Head Island in early 1862, and who later became a war hero and US congressman. We will also take an aesthetic approach that puts a spotlight on Gullah-Geechee culture, the language, craft, music, and dance practices of the Freedman who inhabited Mitchelville, and whose coastal descendants still struggle for recognition of their impact on African American history. Also, where other educational media on the African American experience during Reconstruction was done through documentary video and interactive web sites, we will use spatial computing to design an augmented reality tour experience that is intended to create a theatrical liveness that surrounds and engages the visitor in ways not possible with video.

Humanities Themes:

Some themes we will explore in this discovery phase will be:

• Theme1: As part of the Port Royal Experiment, Mitchelville and other Freedman institutions in the Sea Islands of Beaufort County South Carolina were ground zero for the first federal movement to give African Americans equal rights in the South, and are therefore an important chapter for Civil Rights in America. As Reconstruction historian Eric Foner said in a recent interview, “Beaufort is like a microcosm of so many of the issues that are central to understanding Reconstruction… if you were going to look for one place where you could talk about all the issues of Reconstruction, on both the local and national levels, Beaufort is really the best spot for that.” From early in the Civil War, Beaufort County was the center of the Union Army’s efforts to end slavery in the South, and with the Port Royal Experiment of 1862 establishing the first Freedmen’s towns and schools, became a model for the Freedmen’s Bureau Reconstruction efforts in 1865. We will use local resources like the Beaufort District Collection to explore how Mitchelville and other locations around Beaufort County tie into the larger narrative of Reconstruction and Civil Rights, and work closely with our advisers to understand how Reconstruction policies “thoroughly remade and modernized America and laid the foundation for the "Second Reconstruction"— the Civil Rights Movements of the 1950s and 60s. Thus the post-Civil War end of slavery not only brought freedom to African Americans but also inaugurated a comprehensive and protracted reshaping of fundamental American institutions and the very definition of American citizenship itself.” (USCB’s Institute for the Study of the Reconstruction Era).

• Theme2: Narratives on African American self-governance like Mitchelville were actively suppressed in the South after Reconstruction, along with the stories of African American heroes and statesman like Robert Smalls, and these forgotten stories of early Reconstruction are important for understanding contemporary race relations in America. While stories of African American accomplishments during Reconstruction will be central to the narrative of our AR tour, we will also explore the context of how those accomplishments were taken away in the South after the Compromise of 1877, when Union troops were withdrawn and the Freedmen’s Bureau was shut down. This is a dark chapter in American history, and we will confront the subject of race and white supremacy in looking at post- Reconstruction South Carolina, when Black Codes, Jim Crow laws, and Klan violence systematically erased much of the freedoms won for African Americans during Reconstruction. We will work closely with our advisers to educate the public on a period in American history that still suffers from confusion, as “few other periods in American history where such a wide gap exists between scholarly understanding and public consciousness.” (USCB ISRA), so that visitors understand what was gained and lost for African Americans, and how disinformation in the early historical narrative still misleads people today. Renewed interest by contemporary scholars like Eric Foner and Henry Louis Gates has shown how relevant the “splendid tragedy” (Du Bois) of the Reconstruction-era is to contemporary race relations in America, as seen in Gates’ 2019 PBS documentary that connected current events like Charleston’s 2015 Emanuel AME church massacre and the 2017 Charlottesville Virginia white supremacist violence to Lost Cause narratives started in the 1870s and still propagated today.

• Theme 3: Gullah-Geechee cultural practices that incorporated storytelling, music, and dance, were how an oppressed people expressed their freedom in towns like Mitchelville during Reconstruction. One of the oldest surviving practices, the Ring Shout, was a circular dance with a caller or “shouter” who tapped out the rhythm with a stick because drums were banned in South Carolina after the 1739 Stono Rebellion, where enslaved groups used drum signals between plantations to coordinate their uprising. In the dance, a Shouter calls out instructions to the dancers, who then do a “call and response” by singing hymns and performing dance steps in a counterclockwise circle. Rhythmic forms of expression like the Ring Shout showed resilience to oppression during slavery and after Reconstruction when Civil Rights were suppressed in the Jim Crow South. Oral storytelling was a way that an enslaved people who were forbidden to read and write could transmit their genealogy and customs, while singing and dancing gave those who were allowed few possessions a way to come together and express their heritage. These rhythmic practices from the African diaspora were copied by white entertainers who wore blackface in popular minstrel shows as early as the 1830s, such as the Jump Jim Crow shows of T.D. Rice, which by the 1870s became synonymous with racial oppression in the post-Reconstruction South. But emancipation allowed black entertainers to form their own minstrel troupes, and ultimately reclaim the form from racial stereotypes that were prevalent throughout the South. As Gates showed in the fourth episode of his PBS Reconstruction series, the explosion of authentic African American pop culture during the Harlem Renaissance was directly related to Southern black minstrels migrating Northward as Reconstruction gave way to Jim Crow laws. Minstrel groups like the Jenkins Orphanage Band, sometimes billed as “The Famous Pickanninny Band” from Charleston, actually subverted racial stereotypes by popularizing authentic African American forms of expression at the turn of the century. This was a complicated time in American history that should be better understood by the public, and we will explore how Gullah-Geechee cultural practices spread from the Coastal Carolinas to New York City to become subversive dance fads like “The Charleston”, that crossed racial lines in ways not seen in segregated American society at that time. Original Ring Shout performances can still be experienced in Beaufort County at annual festivals like the Decoration Day Gullah Festival in downtown Beaufort on Memorial Day weekend. Yale historian David Blight contends that Freedman founded Decoration Day, now Memorial Day, at the Charleston graveyard of 257 Union soldiers labeled “Martyrs of the Race Course” in May 1865. A procession of formerly enslaved black Union soldiers re-buried the dead from a mass grave in a Confederate prison camp, with women and children singing hymns, dancing, and marching to honor the dead while dropping flowers on the new graves. The graves were then moved to the National Cemetery in Beaufort, and the decorating custom continues there every Memorial Day. Mitchelville Freedom Park also hosts a Gullah-Geechee Juneteenth celebration which commemorates when Union Maj. General Gordon Granger emancipated the last of the enslaved African Americans in Galveston Texas, on June 19th 1865, where he said that “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.” This special event includes a variety of traditional Gullah- Geechee practices, including Ring Shout dancing. We will use these contemporary performances as reference for creating a virtual version of the dance for our Mitchelville augmented reality tour.

Using these themes as a guide, we plan to develop a site narrative that can be organized into a tapestry of related historical scenes that will be performed as stops on the augmented reality tour. In the tour, life-sized figures will appear like ghosts from the environment to tell their story, with old structures transforming to new before visitor’s eyes. We plan to add seek-and-find game elements to the interactive experience, so that visitors will follow virtual clues in the environment, such as artifacts, that will lead them to the next scene. Like Disney’s Hall of Presidents come to life with realistic and accurate details, Abraham Lincoln may read the Emancipation Proclamation, and Civil War battles may surround visitors as they journey through some parts of the park. Some of the historical personalities and events we will be examining as potential stops in a tour of Mitchelville are:

• Port Royal Experiment, Penn School, and the Founding of Mitchelville: The Port Royal Experiment was the first attempt at Reconstruction by giving formerly enslaved African Americans the resources and autonomy to govern themselves. About two hundred abandoned Confederate plantations in Union occupied Port Royal were repurposed as settlements by the Union army, while abolitionists and missionaries from the North, such as Edward L. Pierce, were sent to help establish schools and towns. With the largest populations migrating to St Helena and Hilton Head Islands, where they could be protected by Union troops, the first Freedman’s town and school were founded as Mitchelville and the Penn School in late 1862. Starting earlier in April 1862, during the Battle of Fort Pulaski on Tybee Island, General David Hunter, in command of the Union X Corps of the South, began recruiting and arming ex-slaves, even declaring all slaves emancipated in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida by General Order # 7 and #11, which was immediately rescinded by Lincoln for political reasons. The command of the South was then given to General Ormsby Mitchel in September 1862, who died of yellow fever only a month after arriving on Hilton Head Island, but not before giving the order to create a self-sustaining town where Freedman could build houses, have elections, and govern themselves. Mitchelville was established on the Drayton plantation in Nov-Dec 1862, and grew to have 3,000 residents by the late 1860s. “Individuals and families were given a quarter acre lot and material to build a home. The freedmen elected their own officials, created their own system of law, built three churches, four stores and established the first compulsory school system in the state of South Carolina. Education was required for every child from age 6 to 15 and when the school district was created in 1866, there were 238 students in the town.” (Mitchelville Preservation Project) Not far from Mitchelville at Camp Sexton, the first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation was done in a live-oak grove on Jan 1st, 1863 to Freedman troops and refugees. We will use period photos, maps, and historical accounts to create 3D models of structures and figures who populated these scenes. We may also incorporate other stories related to the Port Royal Experiment, such as the Penn School and some of the other significant landmarks of the Reconstruction National Monument in Beaufort County. Not only was the Penn School the center of African American civil rights in nineteenth century, but the Penn Center became a retreat for Dr. Martin Luthor King Jr. and others to plan their civil rights campaigns in the twentieth century.

• Robert Smalls Escape from Charleston: There is a viewing platform overlooking the inlet in Mitchelville Park that could be used as the backdrop for a scene showing a virtual Robert Smalls sail up in a digital replica of the CSS Planter, the Confederate ship he used to escape from Charleston in early 1862, and then have him step off and tell his narrative. Smalls, an enslaved man who worked on the military transport vessel at the start of the Civil War, made a daring escape with his family after Confederate officers retired for the evening at port. We plan to use period photos of Smalls to model a realistic digital likeness for when he was a young Union war hero doing runs on Charleston out of Port Royal Sound, and was then sent by General Hunter to Washington to convince Lincoln to allow black troops in the military, which Lincoln did soon after. Smalls sailed the Planter to Savannah to support Sherman’s March to the Sea in 1864, and returned his ship to Charleston harbor when the US flag was raised back over Fort Sumter in 1865. We will also model Smalls as an older South Carolina Republican Congressman, “the party of Lincoln...which unshackled the necks of four million human beings", and who introduced the Homestead Act and the first Civil Rights Acts. As a virtual character, we will be able to show him age over the course of his story from young to old. We will also use accounts of him to guide actors in recording his dialogue and movements using motion capture suits.

• Harriet Tubman’s Assignment to Port Royal: Harriet Tubman, nicknamed “Moses”, was the most famous Underground Railroad agent before the Civil War. She helped the abolitionist John Brown, who called her “General Tubman”, to plan his raid on Harpers Ferry in 1858. After the Civil War began, in May 1862 she was sent to Port Royal area to serve as a nurse before Mitchelville was founded on Hilton Head Island, and later was the first woman to lead a raid in the war after Lincoln allowed African Americans to join the Union Army. She helped Union troops to scout the area around Port Royal, where they conducted the Combahee River Raid, liberating over 750 former slaves to Hilton Head and other islands in Beaufort County. Frederick Douglas said of Tubman in 1868, “Most that I have done and suffered in the service of our cause has been in public, and I have received much encouragement at every step of the way. You, on the other hand, have labored in a private way. I have wrought in the day—you in the night. ... The midnight sky and the silent stars have been the witnesses of your devotion to freedom and of your heroism. Excepting John Brown—of sacred memory—I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardships to serve our enslaved people than you have.” We will work with our advisors to find out what interaction Tubman had with Mitchelville while she was on Hilton Head Island, and we will create 3D models to show Tubman over the years, and may model others in her story like Frederick Douglass and John Brown, using motion capture animation to show scenes from her dramatic story.

• Gullah-Geechee Storytelling and Ring Shout Performance: Mitchelville was inhabited by formerly enslaved West Africans, or Freedman, whose melting-pot of African and Coastal Carolina culture became known as Gullah or Geechee. The Gullah-Geechee coastal corridor runs from North Carolina to Northern Florida, where enslaved people worked rice fields on the Sea Islands, especially in Beaufort County. Rhythmic music and dance practices like the Ring Shout were common on the secluded islands, and after emancipation, became a strong religious and secular influence of Southern African American culture. University of South Carolina music history professor Julie Hubbert contends that Gullah- Geechee influenced ragtime music and dance practices travelled to New York City by way of the Charleston-based Jenkins Orphanage Band starting in the 1890s, and eventually spawned “The Charleston” jazz music and dance craze that exploded out of Harlem in the 1920s. The band was founded by the Reverend Daniel Jenkins to take in Gullah-Geechee children abandoned to the streets of Charleston in the 1890s. To fund the orphanage, he formed the children into a street band wearing donated Union uniforms and marching band instruments. They initially played marching band tunes with a Gullah-Geechee influenced rhythm, and had a mock child “conductor” that danced Gullah- Geechee steps to the music. The band became so popular that it toured England, played at the World’s Fair, and regularly toured Harlem. Many of the Jenkins kids grew up to become respected musicians in the New York jazz and swing clubs. Famed jazz pianist Willie “The Lion” Smith remembered in his autobiography that people in Harlem yelled “Hey Charleston, do your Geechee dance!” to dancers in the clubs where the Jenkins musicians played. And in those same clubs James P. Johnson claimed to have wrote his famous tune “The Charleston” while watching the rhythm of Gullah dancers, and incorporated the song and dance into the hit black Broadway show Runnin’ Wild in 1923. Charleston dancing world champion Bee Jackson stated in a 1927 Colliers Magazine interview that the dance originated in Beaufort County SC.

C) Project format There are two main augmented reality (AR) tour applications that we are planning for this project: 1) a freely downloadable mobile app to take a self-guided AR tour of the park any time of the year; 2) a paid and guided AR tour where participants will rent ($15 per person) a Magic Leap One headset to be surrounded by historical scenes and interact with both live and virtual performers. This project is unique in employing new spatial computing technology and a performative design approach to transform the Mitchelville site into a culturally rich history experience for visitors to the park. While our immediate goal is to make the story of Mitchelville more accessible and appealing for visitors, our long-term goal is to develop a performative AR tour design framework that uses digital humanities and game studies to better engage visitors at any historical site.

Our research for this project will explore the following digital humanities topics: • Making the history of a heritage site more engaging for the public through a performative, interactive, and immersive media experience. • Designing an interactive AR tour that is true to the aesthetic culture of the people and place, such as performing stories in the Gullah-Geechee tradition, while delivering documentary film quality educational content related to the rich history of the site (such as Civil War and Reconstruction). • Presenting history as both educational and entertaining for visitors to the site, while digitally preserving its cultural assets for future generations, and improving attendance so the tours are self-sustaining and reach a wider public audience. • Applying a performative design approach to an AR tour app, using motion capture, spatial computing, and 3D game studies, to bring historical figures and scenes to life around visitors at key site locations, creating an AR experience that feels like a live theatrical play.

Even though our main humanities content for this project is Reconstruction history and Gullah-Geechee culture, our digital media team will be doing digital humanities research related to media studies to design a more engaging learning experience for the public. The Performatology games-VR-AR research in our MFA lab draws from intercultural performing arts studies, Edward Gordon Craig’s concept of the Uber Marrionette, and the history of animation, in order to design virtual scenes and characters that are more expressive. For this project we will also draw from games studies related to the aesthetics of player experience, especially ones that reference the psychology concept of Flow and the philosophy concept of Somaesthetics. Mihály Csíkszentmihályi conducted interdisciplinary flow studies since the 1970s, but most recently the concept has been used in video game studies to explain a pleasurable gaming experience, and design interaction that encourages a state of flow in the player. Where flow studies focus on engaging a player’s mind, human computer interaction studies for games have started applying somaesthetics to better engage a player’s body. Interdisciplinary studies on somaesthetics has been done by FAU philosophy professor Richard Shusterman since the 1990s, and will be explored in regards to how to better design an embodied performative experience in an augmented environment when wearing the Magic Leap headset.

The digital media team’s task will be to interpret historical and cultural information from humanities experts into a multi-dimensional AR tour experience that is both educational and entertaining for visitors to Mitchelville. Over the full scope of the project, primary and secondary materials will be used to map content onto the real-world site using spatial computing hardware and software, which will augment the park environment with historical 3D models and animated historical personalities. In the first Discovery phase, we will import historical models into game engines like Unity and Unreal to test a proof- of-concept of the proposed technical approach. Artifacts will be digitized and new 3D models created from period photos in Autodesk Maya, and historical personalities will be animated by actors wearing Noitom motion capture suits in a virtual production studio. Assets and tests created at this phase of the production will be used in our design document for the next “Prototyping” phase of the project.

The Mitchelville AR tour is a flagship project in an educational partnership between FAU and Magic Leap, which is located only a few miles from our Davie campus. We are also supported by Computer Science faculty from USCB and NC State University who specialize in games and interactive media research, and Multimedia and Animation faculty from FAU and Columbus State University, who specialize in preproduction design, 3D modeling, motion capture animation, VR-AR interface development, and sound design. This project is also supported by South Carolina Educational Television, who produced the Reconstruction 360 web site. SCETV has a fully functional production facility in Beaufort where USCB faculty teach broadcasting courses, and that we can utilize for video production such as documentary interviews of humanities advisers. In addition, funding from this grant will be used to employ an MFA student in the Media, Technology, and Entertainment program to help develop the design document. We will also be working with FAU Theater and Dance faculty to theatrically represent scenes that involve movement and dance, such as the Gullah-Geechee Ring Shout and Civil War battles. Our goal is to use performing arts principles to present authentic history as dramatic scenes that will engage a visitor like they are standing in the middle of a theatrical play.

D) User-generated content There will not be any user-generated content at this stage of design. E) Audience and distribution Mitchelville Freedom Park is free to the public, and with special events, can have up to 10,000 visitors per year, though we hope the tour would increase those numbers. The Fort Lauderdale Museum of Discovery and Science has 450,000 visitors per year, so a Mitchelville augmented reality museum exhibit at MODS would have significant impact with kids K-12, and the 360-degree educational web site will have the widest reach. F) Rights, permissions, and licensing For this design phase of the project, all concept art, storyboards, proof-of-concept research and development designs will be done by FAU faculty and students using open source software and freely available assets and source material, so no permissions or licensing are anticipated. If we use need to use primary source material to visualize a concept, we will consult available collections from our supporting institutions like the Mitchelville Preservation Project and the Penn Center. G) Humanities advisers • Stephen Engle, PhD., Florida Atlantic University Professor of History and Director of History Symposium Series, who specializes on the study of the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era, and his books examine the ethnic dimensions of the period. We will consult Dr. Engle on Reconstruction history related to Harriet Tubman’s visit to Mitchelville, and other Civil War and Reconstruction-era research related to the South Carolina Sea Islands. • Brent Morris, PhD., University of South Carolina Beaufort Associate Professor of History and Chair of Humanities department, and Director of the USCB Institute for the Study of the Reconstruction Era, who specializes in South Carolina history and Reconstruction. We will consult Dr. Morris on Civil War and Reconstruction-era research related to Mitchelville and Beaufort County. • Victoria Smalls, Penn Center Director of History and Culture and Reconstruction Campaign Organizer, former Program Manager at the International African American Museum, and member of the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission, who specializes in Gullah-Geechee cultural preservation. We will consult Director Smalls on the history and social influences of Gullah- Geechee culture in Beaufort County. • Najmah Thomas, PhD., University of South Carolina Beaufort Assistant Professor of African American Studies, who specializes in social and economic equity with a focus on program evaluation practices and public policies impacting underrepresented populations, including the Gullah/Geechee community. A Fellow in the Institute for African American Research at the University of South Carolina, we will consult Dr. Thomas on Gullah-Geechee contemporary culture and social justice issues. • Eric Crawford, PhD., Coastal Carolina University Associate Professor of Music and Director of the Joyner Institute for Gullah and African Diaspora Studies, specializing on Gullah-Geechee music, specifically the retentions and alterations that have occurred since the antebellum period. We will consult Dr. Crawford on research related to rhythms of Gullah-Geechee music, and how it influenced culture. • Anita Singleton-Prather, Director Gullah Kinfolk Performers, who specializes in traditional Gullah-Geechee storytelling and spirituals, and whose characterization of “Aunt Pearlie Sue” is well known at numerous Gullah festivals throughout Beaufort County, including at Mitchelville, Penn Heritage Days, and The Original Gullah Festival. We will consult Director Singleton-Prather on Gullah-Geechee culture related to performance, storytelling, and language. • Mitchelville Preservation Project, Executive Director, Ahmad Ward and Project Manager, Joyce Wright, fully support this project, and will be consulted on Mitchelville history, archives, and collections. The mission of the Mitchelville Preservation Project is to replicate, preserve and sustain an historically significant site and to educate the public about the sacrifice, resilience and perseverence of the freedmen of Mitchelville, which in 1862 was the first self- governed town of freed slaves in America. http://exploremitchelville.org/ • The Second Founding of America, Reconstruction Beaufort, Director Billy Keyserling, Mayor of Beaufort, supports this project. With many years’ experience working with regional groups and the National Park Service to develop a Reconstruction National Monument in Beaufort, Mayor Keyserling will be consulted on Reconstruction resources related to Beaufort County. https://www.reconstructionbeaufort.org/ • FAU Center for Body, Mind, and Culture, Richard Shusterman, PhD., Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture, supports this project, and will be consulted on Somaesthetics research related to body perception and performativity with virtual characters in augmented reality environment. https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/humanitieschair/

H) Digital media team • Christopher Maraffi, MFA., MSc., Florida Atlantic University Assistant Professor of Multimedia Production in the Media, Technology, and Entertainment MFA program, author of three popular technical books on 3D animation, who specializes in preproduction visual design, motion capture animation, game design, VR-AR interface development, and Performatology research. Professor Maraffi will serve as Project Director, and will manage all FAU graduate and undergraduate students working on the project, as well as consult with all advisers to develop a site narrative into a design document for an AR tour experience. • Brian Canada, PhD., University of South Carolina Beaufort Associate Professor in Computational Science, who specializes in research related to cultural heritage in the Digital Humanities and tangential learning in video games. Dr. Canada has produced the award winning indie game Bugs N’ Boo Hags, with Gullah and Beaufort County themes, and will be consulted on developing an AR tour app that represents Gullah-Geechee cultural heritage. • Arnav Jhala, PhD., North Carolina State University Associate Professor of Computer Science and Co-Director of the Digital Games Research Initiative, who specializes in AI for visual narrative and cinematic games tool development, will be consulted on AR app development for the Magic Leap One headset in Unity and Unreal game engines. • Ricardo Tobon, MFA., Animation Director at Vital Games, and author of The Mocap Book, has professionally pushed the boundaries of performance and storytelling in visual effects, games, and animation at studios that include Sony Interactive Entertainment, Digital Domain, Weta Digital, and DreamWorks Animation Studio. With over twenty game and film credits, including Planet of the Apes, Men In Black, God of War, and Uncharted, he will be consulted on animation and mocap production for the AR characters. • Francis McAfee, MFA., Florida Atlantic University Associate Professor of Multimedia Production and Director of the Media, Technology, and Entertainment MFA Program, who specializes in advanced 3D modeling, animation, and AR mobile app development. Professor McAfee will be consulted on creating 3D representations of historical artifacts and structures, as well as developing the AR tour for mobile devices. • Joey Bargsten, PhD., Florida Atlantic University Professor of Multimedia Production, specializes in research related to intermedia performance, sound design, and VR-AR experience design, and will be consulted on creating performative and immersive multimedia for an AR performance. • Lee Soroko, MFA., Florida Atlantic University Assistant Professor of Movement and Stage Combat, will be consulted on interpreting historical accounts of Civil War battles in the SC Sea Islands into a dramatic performance by actors in motion capture suits to create an immersive 360-degree AR performance. • Demetrius Dukes, MFA., Columbus State University Assistant Professor of Art in Animation and Coordinator of the Animation Concentration in the department of Art, will be consulted on modeling and animating historical figures from the Reconstruction-era. • Caroline Sawyer, PhD., University of South Carolina Beaufort Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, will be consulted about transmedia storytelling, documentary video, and broadcast production. Dr. Sawyer teaches USCB broadcasting courses out of the Beaufort SCETV facility, and we will consult her on student involvement in producing documentary video for the project. • Clarence Brooks, MFA., Florida Atlantic University Associate Professor of Dance, Director of Dance in the Department of Theatre and Dance, and President of the Florida Dance Education Organization, will be consulted on interpreting traditional Gullah-Geechee dancing into contemporary choreography for dancers, who we record using motion capture technology, and will help facilitate a dramatic 3D animated representation of authentic Gullah-Geechee culture. • Magic Leap, Director of Educational Partnerships, Alex Haber, is negotiating an educational partnership with FAU, and has offered the technical support of their engineers on this project to be consulted on issues that arise in the development of the AR tour application. Magic Leap is a $4.5BIL company headquartered in Plantation FL that produces the new Magic Leap One AR headset. https://www.magicleap.com/ • Fort Lauderdale Museum of Discovery & Science, Vice President of Programs, Life Sciences, and Exhibits, Joe Cytacki, has offered support on developing this project, with potential participation of high school students in their summer Aptitude program on designing AR museum exhibit apps. https://mods.org/ • Daruma Tech, Director of Finance and Business Operations, Rick Griswold, has offered support for this project. Daruma Tech partners with FAU Research Park and MODS summer Aptitude program, and is a company that specializes in museum software, kiosks, and exhibits. Daruma Tech will be consulted on developing the AR tour application and related museum installation. https://www.darumatech.com/ • South Carolina Educational Television, Senior Director of Content, Don Godish, has offered SCETVs support for this project. The producers of Reconstruction 360, SCETV will be consulted on 360 video and documentary content for the AR tour, museum exhibit, and related 360 web site. https://www.scetv.org/ I) State of the project The Project Director started work as a consultant on the Mitchelville AR Tour project in 2016 when professor Maraffi was a Media Arts faculty at the University of South Carolina Beaufort, working with the Hilton Head Chamber of Commerce, and in collaboration with USCB faculty in History and Computational Science departments. Since then the project was put on hold and changed hands from the Chamber to the Mitchelville Preservation Project, and professor Maraffi relocated to Florida Atlantic University, where he teaches BA and MFA multimedia production courses in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies. Also since that time, emerging technologies like spatial computing headsets became available, which allow for a much more robust augmented reality experience by mapping the physical environment. We are now able to design multimedia experiences for a historical site that were not possible even a few years ago, and so we have partnered with a local leader in this field, Magic Leap, to develop this project on their platform. At this discovery stage, we will explore what game engine will be best for this application, and how to present the tour narrative as a series of interactive scenes and transitions with seek-and-find game dynamics. J) Work plan In the exploratory period of performance for this discovery phase, we will meet with advisers to develop a tour narrative and platform plan, work with MFA graduate students to design the tour aesthetic through concept art and storyboards, and test a proof-of-concept for the augmented reality technological approach. Spring 2020: The Project Director will travel to the project site on Hilton Head South Carolina in early April, to capture 360 degree photographic and AV resources on site, and then meet with regional Humanities Advisers at University of South Carolina Beaufort. We will also have MFA students testing the Magic Leap platform in our Interactive Interface Design course, and have one funded MFA student producing concept art. Summer 2020: The Project Director will meet with members of the Digital Media team and MFA students at Florida Atlantic University in early June to plan a proof-of-concept test for the platform. The Project Director will travel to South Carolina to meet Humanities Advisers to develop the narrative for the tour scenes, and gather resources from regional collections for modeling historical artifacts, structures, and figures. Tests will be done by MFA grad students to use motion capture to animate 3D models of historical personalities for use in the tour. Some meetings will be done through Skype. Fall 2020: Concept art and storyboards for the AR tour scenes will be developed by grad and undergrad students in our Preproduction, Prototyping, and Previsualizing MFA course and our Visual Design for Film, Video, and Games BA course, which run in the fall semester. In October, the Project Director will meet with the Digital Media team to develop the proof-of-concept for the AR platform, and will work with a funded MFA student to finish and document the results. Spring 2021: The Project Director will compile all preproduction artwork and proof-of- concept documentation into a design document to submit to the Digital Project for the Public Grant call in June 2021. K) Organization profile The Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters is the third largest college at FAU representing departments, programs and a dedicated faculty of distinguished scholars, researchers and artists within the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. The College is recognized regionally, nationally and internationally for the outstanding educational experience it offers, the creativity showcased by its performing and visual arts, and the energizing role it plays in the community. Located within the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, the Master of Fine Arts program in Media, Technology, and Entertainment is an interdisciplinary degree offered in collaboration with the Department of Computer & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The degree combines film, interactive media, and computer animation faculty with computer science faculty to provide graduate students innovative approaches to digital entertainment that stretch creative and scientific boundaries. Students are challenged to think in artistic, scientific and industrial terms about: • Innovative forms of digital media practice within film and video production, virtual and augmented reality, and web-based interactive media and mobile media; • New pipeline models for media production, such as 3D processing for film and game development; • Practical applications, such as interface design for mobile devices and spatial computing headsets. L) Fundraising plan The Project Director has submitted this project to an NEH Fellowship Grant for Hispanic Serving Institutions (application number: HB-267589) to provide a year of half-time funding in the form of a course release to work on this project starting spring semester 2020. This NEH Digital Projects for the Public Grant request of $30K will be used for travel expenses, MFA student funding to work on the preproduction designs, equipment expenses, and possibly some consultant fees. In June 2019 we received an FAU donor seed grant of $8,400.00 for this project from the Walter and Lalita Janke Emerging Technologies Fund to pay for a summer 2019 trip to the site, some start-up equipment, and a graduate student stipend for fall 2019 to begin working on the design document. Bibliography - Selected Collections, Foundations, and Archives:

• Beaufort District Collection, Beaufort SC.; Chicora Foundation, Columbia SC.; Penn Center, St Helena Island SC. Heritage Library Foundation, Hilton Head Island SC.; South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia SC.; South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston SC; International African American Museum, Charleston SC.

Selected Publications:

• Abrahams, Roger. (1992) Singing the Master: The Emergence of African-American Culture in the Plantation South. New York: Pantheon Books. • Allen, William Francis, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison. (1867) Slave Songs of the United States. Reprint, New York: A. Simpson, Bedford, MA, Applewood Books. • Barba, E., and Savarese, N. (2005) A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology: The Secret Art of the Performer. New York, NY: Routledge. • Blight, David W. (2002) Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press. • Bonner, Michael, B., and Fritz Hamer, Eds. (2016) South Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras: Essays from the Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association, University of South Carolina Press. • Botume, Elizabeth H. (1968) First Days Amongst the Contrabands. Arno Press, New York. • Cowley, B., Charles, D., Black, M., & Hickey, R. (2008) Toward an understanding of flow in video games, Computers in Entertainment (CIE), 6(2), 20. • Craig, Edward Gordon. (1907) On the Actor and The Uber Marionette, The Mask (Self Published Periodical, Florence). • Crawford, Eric. (2012) “The Negro Spiritual of Saint Helena Island: An Analysis of Its Repertoire During the Periods 1860-1920, 1921-1939, and 1972-Present.” PhD diss., Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America. • Csikszentmihalyi, M. and Csikszentmihalyi, I. (1990) Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Harper and Row, New York. • Dougherty, Kevin. (2014) The Port Royal Experiment: A Case Study in Development, Univ. Press of Mississippi. • Downs, Gregory P., (2019) After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War, Harvard University Press, Reprint Edition. • Dray, Phillip. (2010) Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen, Mariner Books. • Du Bois, W.E.B. (1935) Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880. NY: Harcourt Brace & Company. • Fitzgerald, Michael W. (2008) Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South, Ivan R. Dee Publishing. • Foner, Eric. (2006) Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction, Vintage Books. • Foner, Eric. (2014) Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, Updated Edition. • French, Austa M. (1969) Slavery in South Carolina and the Ex-slaves; or, The Port Royal Mission. Negro Universities Press, New York (reprint of 1862 edition). • Gates, Henry Louis Jr., (2019) Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, Penguin Press. • Larson, Kate Clifford (2004). Bound For the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. New York: Ballantine Books. • Laurel, Brenda. (1991). Computers as Theatre. New York, NY: Addison-Weseley. • Litwack, Leon F. (1980) Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery, Vintage Books. • Manning, Chandra. (2016) Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War, Knopf Publishing. • Maraffi, Christopher. (2011) Roots of Performatology: From Craig’s Uber-Marionette to Performative Embodied Agents, In Proceedings of Digital Humanities (DH’11), Stanford, CA. • McCray, Jack. (2007) Charleston Jazz, Arcadia Publishing. • Morris, J Brent, editor. (2017) Yes, Lord, I Know the Road: A Documentary History of African Americans in South Carolina, 1526-2008, USC Press. • Parrish, Lydia. (1942) Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands. New York: Creative Age Press, Inc. • Rose, Willie L., (1964) Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment. Oxford University Press, London. • Rosenbaum, Art. (2013) Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia. University of Georgia Press; Reprint edition. • Schwalm, Leslie A. (1997) A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History), University of Illinois Press. • Shusterman, Richard (2009): Body Consciousness and Performance: Somaesthetics East and West. In The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 67 (2) pp. 133-145. • Shusterman, R., et al. (2018) Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd Ed., Chapter 21: Somaesthetics, www.interaction-design.org. • Taylor, Amy Murrell. (2018) Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps, University of North Carolina Press. • Tetzlaff, Monica M. (1993) Mitchelville: An Early Experiment in Self Governance. In The Forgotten History: Hilton Head During the Civil War. Charles C. McCracken and Faith M. McCracken eds. Time Again Publication. Hilton Head Island, SC. • Turner, L., (with introduction by) Mille, K. and Montgomery, M. (2002) Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect. Chicago Press. • Varon, Elizabeth R. (2019) Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War, Oxford University Press. • White, Richard. (2017) The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States), Oxford University Press. • Wise, Stephen R., et al. (2015) Rebellion, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 1861–1893, The History of Beaufort County South Carolina, Vol.2, University of South Carolina Press. • Zuczek, Richard. (2009) State of Rebellion : people's war in reconstruction South Carolina, 1865- 1877, University of South Carolina Press. Mitchelville Project Résumés and Letters of Commitment • Christopher Maraffi, FAU Multimedia (Project Director, Résumé/CV) Participating Organizations Letters of Commitment • Mitchelville Preservation Project • South Carolina Educational Television • Second Founding of America: Reconstruction Beaufort • Magic Leap • Fort Lauderdale Museum of Discovery & Science • Daruma Tech Digital Media Team • Richard Shusterman, FAU Center for Body, Mind, & Culture (Résumé/CV and Letter) • Brian Canada, USCB Computational Science (Résumé/CV and Letter) • Arnav Jhala, NCSU Computer Science (Résumé/CV and Letter) • Ricardo Tobon, Vital Games (Résumé/CV and Letter) • Francis McAfee, FAU Multimedia (Résumé/CV and Letter) • Joey Bargsten, FAU Multimedia (Résumé/CV and Letter) • Lee Soroko, FAU Performance (Résumé/CV and Letter) • Demetrius Dukes, CSU Animation (Résumé/CV and Letter) • Caroline Sawyer, USCB Broadcast Video (Résumé/CV and Letter) • Clarence Brooks, FAU Dance (not able to submit due to summer tour) Humanities Advisers • Stephen Engle, FAU History (Résumé/CV and Letter) • Brent Morris, USCB History (Résumé/CV and Letter) • Victoria Smalls, Penn Center (Résumé/CV and Letter) • Najmah Thomas, USCB African American Studies (Résumé/CV and Letter) • Anita Singleton-Prather, Gullah Storytelling (Résumé/CV and Letter) • Eric Crawford, CCU Gullah Music (Résumé/CV and Letter)

CV Chris ‘Topher’ Maraffi Site: https://tophermaraffi.com/ Email: [email protected] Cell: 831-588-5163 Education:  2010-2014 – Masters of Computer Science, Games & Playable Media, University of California, Santa Cruz: Performatology thesis modeled the quality of figure poses in motion capture data using algorithms based on animation and performing arts principles to enhance game characters. Lab: Computational Cinematics Studio. Advisor: Arnav Jhala.  2008-2010 – Masters of Fine Arts, Digital Arts & New Media, University of California, Santa Cruz: Mimesis & Mocap thesis used motion capture to bring principles of performance and animation together in a live stage show. Advisors: Kathy Foley, Chair (Theater), Michael Mateas (Computer Science), and Ted Warburton (Theater).  1989-1993 – Bachelors of Creative Arts, Fine Arts Painting, University of North Carolina, Charlotte: Concentration in figurative painting and drawing. Advisor: Eric Anderson.

Teaching:  2018-Present – Assistant Professor of Multimedia Production, Florida Atlantic University, Davie: Tenure-track faculty in the School of Communication & Multimedia Studies (SCMS), teaching courses in the Film, Video, and New Media (FVNM) bachelors program, and teaching-advising in the Media, Technology, and Entertainment (MTEn) MFA graduate program. FAU Courses: Visual Design for Film, Animation and Games; Preproduction, Prototyping, and Previsualizing; 3D Video Game Design; 3D Animation for Interactivity; Advanced 3D Computer Animation; and Interactive Interface Design.  2014-2018 – Assistant Professor of Media Arts, University of South Carolina, Beaufort: Tenure- track faculty in the Visual Art & Design department advising and teaching students in the Studio Arts (ARTS) bachelor’s degree program. Developed the Media Arts (MART) concentration. USCB Courses: Media Design; Digital Imaging; History of Animation in the US; Digital Animation 1-3; Broadcast Design 1-2; Video Game Design 1-2; Studio Arts for Non-Majors; and Graphic Design 1-2.  Summer 2013-2014 - COSMOS Game Design Instructor, University of California, Santa Cruz: Taught summer school classes in game design to gifted high school students. Designed curriculum, lectured, and managed one teaching assistant.  2008-2014 – Teaching Assistant, University of California, Santa Cruz: Graduate Teaching Assistant (TA) for classes in the Art, Film, and Computer Science departments. UCSC TA Courses: 3D Modeling with Blender (CS), Games as Visual Culture (Art), Intro to Game Design (CS), Walt Disney (Theater), Muppet Magic (Theater), Intro to Digital Media (Art & Film), Writing for the Arts (Writing), and Methods in Theatre (Theater).  2001-2008 – Course Director, Full Sail University, Orlando FL: Course Director in charge of the technical animation courses in the Animation and Video Game Design AA & BA degree programs. Responsible for weekly lectures, designing curriculum, and managing two full-time Associate Course Directors with twelve full and part-time lab instructors. Full Sail Courses: 3D Character Design and Modeling, Character Rigging, and MEL Coding in Maya.  1998-2001 –Adjunct Lecturer & Certified Trainer, SF Bay Area Colleges: Taught 3D animation classes at The Academy of Art (Bachelors Program), Mesmer Animation Labs (Certified 3D Trainer), and Masters Institute (Associates Program).  1996-1998 – Adjunct Instructor, NYC Area Colleges: Taught 3D animation classes at Parsons-New School (Professional Program), School of Visual Arts (Bachelors Program), NYU Center for Advanced Digital Applications (Professional Certificate), and NY Institute of Technology (Graduate Program).

Scholarly Activities:  College Seed Grant: Received an Arts & Letters College Seed Grant for the proposal “Augmented Reality Game Prototype to Quantify Skilled Driving Principles” awarded $13.3K for MFA student funding and AR hardware for a collaborative project with Computer Science, 04/2019.  Tech Fee Grant: Received an Arts & Letters College Tech Fee Grant for the proposal “VR-AR-MR- Games Upgrade for Multimedia Studies Labs” awarded $15K for hardware and software to be used in our new media courses, 04/2019.  Presented: Florida Statewide Symposium: Best Practices in Undergraduate Research presentation “Advantages of Finalizing Undergraduate Creative Projects with a Research Poster”, FAU Boca, 10/2018.  Grant: Received a Sea Island Center grant to do pre-production research for designing a documentary and site-specific augmented reality app on the SC History of Swing Dancing, 11/2016.  Presented: Arts In Society 2016 conference presentation “Reverse STEAM Ahead: Empowering Fine Artists with Technology” in The 21st Century Classroom track, UCLA, 08/2016.  Paper Published: Electronic Visualization and the Arts (EVA) 2016 conference, presented the paper “Using New Media for Practice-based Fine Arts Research in the Classroom” organized by the London British Computing Society, 07/2016.  Workshop: South Carolina Art Education Association (SCAEA) 2015 conference workshop on “Teaching New Media in the Classroom”, USCB Mac Lab, 11/2015.  Workshop: Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) 2013 Workshop, “Inferring Performer Skill from Aesthetic Quality Features in a Dance Game Gesture Corpus”, in the Games & Aesthetics track, Maraffi and Jhala, Boston, 10/2013.  Technical Report: UCSC-SOE, “Raising the Aesthetic Quality of Character Interaction in Cinematic Videogames”, Maraffi and Jhala, Santa Cruz, 02/2013.  Poster: International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS) 2011 conference poster presentation, “Performatology: A Procedural Acting Approach for Interactive Drama in Cinematic Games”, Maraffi and Jhala, Vancouver, 11/2011.  Presented: Future of Digital Games (FDG) 2011 conference doctoral consortium presentation, “Performatology: An Arts Approach to Designing PEAs for Procedural Character Animation”, Bordeaux, 06/2011.  Poster: Digital Humanities 2011 conference poster presentation, “Roots of Performatology: From Craig’s Uber-Marionette to Performative Embodied Agents”, Stanford, 06/2011.  Award: Graduate Dean’s Award for “Mimesis & Mocap”, UCSC 2010 Graduate Research Symposium, Santa Cruz 05/2010.  Book Published: MEL Scripting a Character Rig in Maya, Riders, 2008.  Workshop: UNM Arts Lab, "MEL Scripting a Character Rig", University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 07/2008.  Workshop: Red Stick Animation Festival workshop, "MEL Scripting a Character Rig", Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 04/2008.  Workshop: Animex Animation Festival workshop, "MEL Scripting a Character Rig", University of Teeside, UK, 02/2008.  Book Published: Maya Character Creation: Modeling & Animation Controls, New Riders, 2003.  Workshop: SIGGRAPH conference workshop, "Tips and Tricks Maya Master Class", Los Angeles, 08/2001.  Book Published: Softimage XSI Character Animation FX & Design, Coriolis, 2000.

Professional Background:  1996-1998 – Freelance Graphic Artist & 3D Animator: Freelance artist for broadcast television, independent film, and Internet clients in the New York City area, including NBC (3D Trainer), The GT Group (HBO, ESPN, ESPN2, Nickelodeon), Balsmeyer & Everett (Woody Allen’s Everyone Says I Love You, First Wives Club), So! (3D character animation), MediaServ (NBC Intranet design), and Chelsea Post (Maury Povich Show).  1993-1996- Broadcast Artist & 3D Animator: Staff artist and animator for NBC owned and operated networks, including NBC Newschannel (Charlotte), CNBC, MSNBC, America’s Talking (Fort Lee NJ), and NBC (New York, NY). HISTORIC MITCHELVILLE FREEDOM PARK, INC.

June 3, 2019 EXECUTIVE OFFICERS National Endowment for the Humanities CHAIRPERSON Digital Projects for the Public Review Committee Shirley Peterson To Whom It May Concern, VICE CHAIRPERSON Charles Curl The Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park (HMFP, formerly titled, the Mitchelville Preservation Project) is pleased to support Christopher Maraffi’s request to the NEH Digital Projects for the Public TREASURER Discovery Grant to fund the “Exploring the Roots of Freedom: Augmented Reality Tour for Melody Irvin Mitchelville, South Carolina Gullah Geechee Heritage Site” project.

SECRETARY The Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to Gloria Holmes, EdD preserve, promote and honor Historic Mitchelville, the first self-governed town of formerly enslaved people in the United States. HMFP endeavors to educate the public on the compelling story of BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mitchelville’s inhabitants and their quest for education, self-reliance and inclusion as members of a Helen Baker free society. As we create our Master Plan that will serve as the blueprint for our historic site, we are Jamie L Berndt thriving through feature exhibits, signature events and guided tours of the property. Currently, Charles Bogguess interpretation in the Park area consists of a few facades of building and several didactic panels Margot Brown illustrating aspects of Mitchelville’s history. The project proposed by Christopher Maraffi will assist Ochieng Campbell HMFP in expanding its interpretation offerings to the thousands of cultural heritage tourists who visit Omolola Campbell the Park on a yearly basis. Herbert Ford Kirsten Hotchkiss We are constantly looking at creative ways to convey the story of Mitchelville since we are a few years Brent Morris, EdD away from recreating the historic structures on the site. Topher’s design for virtual tours on site will Didi Summers help interpret the daily lives of Mitchelville residents for a 21st Century audience. In addition, the mobile app will provide opportunities for HMFP to stay connected to visitors who have come to the Park, as well as connecting to individuals outside of the area, so they can understand the importance of the site. Based on our research of augmented reality and the applications in the field, HMFP Chairman Emeritus believes that this project will help to promote the site and lay the groundwork for virtual interpretation. This is perfect timing for our organization, as the Park is basically a blank canvas ready for the Thomas C. Barnwell, Jr. innovative approach that Topher is presenting with the app and the virtual tour. We are committed to working with Topher over the course of a year to determine the distinct Humanities content for the Mitchelville AR projects. Mailing Address P. O. Box 21758 Christopher Maraffi is a motivated individual with a keen insight on how technology can inform, Hilton Head Island, SC 29925 connect and inspire. The scope of work that Topher has presented is thoughtful and incorporates the

vision we have for the facility. The people who lived worked and played on the property we preserve Office Address 536 William Hilton Parkway, are at the forefront of this project and that is of high importance to our Board and Staff. It is with Suite 134 great pleasure that I lend my support to Christopher Maraffi’s application. We hope that you will Hilton Head Island, SC 29928 consider funding this important project. www.exploremitchelville.org Sincerely,

Ahmad Ward Executive Director

The Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. Your contribution is tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law

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Christopher Maraffi, Associate Professor of Multimedia Production, MFA, MSc. Florida Atlantic University, School of Communication & Multimedia Studies CU 201 777 Glades Road Boca Raton, FL 33431-0991 [email protected]

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To Whom It May Concern:

We are pleased to deliver this letter of support to Christopher Maraffi, Associate Professor of Multimedia Production, MFA, MSc., of Florida Atlantic University, School of Communication & Multimedia Studies. This letter indicates Magic Leap’s support for Professor Maraffi’s NEH grant proposal titled “Exploring the Roots of Freedom: Augmented Reality Tour for Mitchelville South Carolina Gullah-Geechee Heritage Site” (the “Project”).

Magic Leap is developing the next computing platform that will enable individuals to seamlessly combine and experience the digital and physical worlds. We are introducing a new kind of human-computer interactivity, starting with a lightweight, wearable computer that enriches your experience in the real world with digital content, in everything from commerce and entertainment to communications and productivity. On August 8, 2018, Magic Leap released its first product, Magic Leap One Creator Edition. Magic Leap is headquartered in Plantation, Florida, with locations in Los Angeles, Sunnyvale, Seattle, Austin, Dallas, Switzerland, New Zealand and Israel.

We can’t build the next computing platform on our own. We need world-class partners like Florida Atlantic University and its esteemed faculty like Professor Maraffi to come on this journey with us. We are confident that the Project proposed by Professor Maraffi will be a key step in facilitating the creation of new experiences for our platform.

Magic Leap is excited to provide our reasonable support to Professor Maraffi during the Project submission process, which activities may include developer and technical support for Professor Maraffi’s software design and development in connection with the Project. If Professor Maraffi is successful in securing the Project funds, Magic Leap may explore opportunities to further support Professor Maraffi in connection with the initiatives contemplated by the Project.

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Magic Leap, Inc.

L E D G E A V By: ______L A P P R O Hendrik Vlietstra Name: ______DATE 5/6/2019 Title: ______COO, SVP INITIALS

April 7, 2019

Christopher Maraffi Assist. Prof. of Multimedia Production, MFA, MSc. Media, Technology, and Entertainment MFA Program School of Communication & Multimedia Studies Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 33432

Dear NEH Grant Committee Members,

I am thrilled to write this letter of support to accompany the application for the NEH Digital Projects for the public grant request being submitted by Florida Atlantic University for “Exploring the Roots of Freedom: Augmented Reality Tour for Mitchelville South Carolina Gullah-Geechee Heritage Site”.

Daruma Tech looks forward to meeting and exploring how we can support, partner and work with FAU on this innovative project that brings new technological ideas to expand and enhance museum programming. “Exploring the Roots of Freedom” presents an exciting opportunity to create a transmedia platform with the potential for wide public distribution, including a site-specific AR tour application, a physical-AR museum exhibit installation, and an educational web site. Through technology we can generate lasting impact for this important exhibition.

As a tech company who has a wealth of experience working with various museums, we understand that technological integration is a significant aspect of the future of museums. Daruma Tech is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in Application Development and is amongst the companies on the leading edge of this technological growth and we are committed and excited to be helping you on potentially developing this project as a consultant-collaborator at the prototyping-production stages, or even, perhaps, for the Magic Leap or mobile app development.

Daruma Tech highly recommends Christopher Maraffi and the proposed “Exploring the Roots of Freedom: Augmented Reality Tour for Mitchelville South Carolina Gullah-Geechee Heritage Site” for funding consideration. We welcome this new opportunity to partner and support this effort for the benefit and enrichment of the community.

Sincerely,

Richard L. Griswold

Rick Griswold

Director [email protected] 561-990-1625 The Research Park at Florida Atlantic University, 3651 FAU Blvd, Suite 400, Boca Raton, FL 33431 | www.darumatech.com Professor Richard M. Shusterman

Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida 33431-099. E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION AND DEGREES B.A. in Philosophy and English at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Degree awarded magna cum laude. M.A. in Philosophy at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Degree awarded magna cum laude. D. Phil. in Philosophy at St. John’s College, Oxford University.

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 1980-82 Lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Philosophy and Comparative Literature 1981-83 Lecturer at Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1983-87 Senior Lecturer with tenure at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Philosophy and Comparative Literature 1984-85 Visiting Fellow at St. John’s College, Oxford University 1985-87 Visiting Associate Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, Temple University 1987-92 Associate Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, Temple University, tenured in 1988 1990, 1992 Directeur d’Études Associé, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris 1992-2004 Full Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, Temple University 1992-95 Correspondent, Collège International de Philosophie 1993-2004 Recurrent Visiting Professor, Dept. of Liberal Studies, Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research 1995-96 Fulbright Professor in Philosophy and American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin 1995-2001 Directeur de programme, Collège International de Philosophie, Paris; Correspondent, Collège International de Philosophie, 2001- 1996-97 Eberhard L. Faber Class of 1915 Memorial Lecturer, Dept. of Comparative Literature, Princeton University 1998-2004 Chair of Philosophy Department, Temple University 2002-2003 Visiting Research Professor, Hiroshima University, Japan 2004- Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, Florida Atlantic University 2006 (Fall) Visiting Professor, Dept. of Fine Arts and Aesthetics, University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne University of Paris 1 2009-2010 Visiting Professor, University of Paris 3 2010-2011 Visiting Professor, University of Paris 1 (Fine Arts); University of Lyon| (Anthropology); University of Rome (Philosophy) Technical University of Vienna 2011-2018 Visiting Professor, University of Lyon, France (Sociology); Academy of Physical Education in Wroclaw, Poland (Physiotherapy); Renmin University (Beijing, China), Fudan University, Shanghai; Aalborg University, Denmark

Published BOOKS

1 The Object of Literary Criticism. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1984.

2 T. S. Eliot and the Philosophy of Criticism. London and New York: Duckworth and Columbia University Press, 1988.

3 Shusterman, Richard, ed. Analytic Aesthetics. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989.

4 Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992;2nd ed. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. (With new introduction and an additional chapter); translated into fourteen languages.

7 Sous l’interprétation. Paris: Éditions de l’éclat, 1994.

8 Practicing Philosophy: Pragmatism and the Philosophical Life. New York: Routledge, 1997.

9 Shusterman, Richard, ed. Bourdieu: A Critical Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.

10 La fin de l’expérience esthétique. Pau: Presse Universitaire de Pau, 1999 (trans. Jean-Pierre Cometti).

11 Surface and Depth: Dialectics of Criticism and Culture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002.

12 Shusterman, Richard, ed. The Range of Pragmatism and the Limits of Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.

13 Shusterman, Richard and Adele Tomlin, eds. Aesthetic Experience. New York: Routledge: 2008.

14 Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008; translated into six languages

15 Aesthetic Transactions: Pragmatist Philosophy through Art and Life (Galerie Michel Journiac/L'éclat: Paris, 2012).

16 Thinking through the Body: Essays in Somaesthetics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, 368 pages.

17 Shusterman, Richard, Roberta Dreon, and Daniele Goldoni, eds. Stili di vita: Qualche istruzione per l'uso (Lifestyles: Some instructions for use). Milano. Mimesis Edizioni, 2012.

18 Chemins de l'art. Transfigurations, du pragmatisme au zen, with Afterword by Arthur Danto. Raphaël Cuir, trans. Paris and Brussels: Al Dante / Aka - Cellule éditoriale de l'Académie royale des beaux arts de Bruxelles, 2013.

19 The Adventures of the Man in Gold : Paths between Art and Life/Les Aventures de l’homme en or : Passages Entre L’Art et La Vie . Paris : Hermann, 2016. RICHARD M. SHUSTERMAN, D.PHIL. Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy 777 Glades Road Boca Raton, FL 33431 USA tel: 561.297.0851 • fax: 561.297.2095 [email protected] www.artsandletters.fau/humanitieschair

June 1st, 2019

Christopher Maraffi Assist. Prof. of Multimedia Production, MFA, MSc. Media, Technology, and Entertainment MFA Program School of Communication & Multimedia Studies Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 33432

Dear NEH Grant Committee,

I am very pleased to write to you in of support Professor Maraffi’s NEH Digital Projects for the Public “Discovery” grant proposal titled Exploring the Roots of Freedom: Augmented Reality Tour for Mitchelville South Carolina Gullah-Geechee Heritage Site.

The Mitchelville augmented reality tour project is an exciting opportunity to bring together humanities scholars and digital media researchers to collaborate on new methodologies for educating the public about an important site related to Reconstruction history and Gullah-Geechee culture. Employing Magic Leap headsets and game- engine technology for immersing visitors in a historical scene is an important area of digital humanities research that has great potential for experiential learning of humanities subjects at historical sites and museums. This project, by treating cultural history and its expression in physical and psychological struggles to overcome oppression, concerns all three components that constitute the focus of FAU’s Center for Body, Mind and Culture. The Center will therefore be happy to be involved in this project.

My extensive research in somaesthetics will enable me to be an adviser on the digital humanities research related to human computer interface design, such as experiencing the body in an augmented reality application using Magic Leap headsets. In recent years I have worked closely with researchers in Human Computer Interaction on embodied, humanistic approaches to interactive digital design through somaesthetic theory and practice. My work in this area is exploredin the Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/book/the-encyclopedia-of-human-computer-interaction-2nd- ed/somaesthetics and is discussed at length in a new book with MIT Press, Designing with the Body: Somaesthetic Interaction Design by Kristina Hook.

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I enthusiastically support this research, and if it is funded by the NEH, I look forward to working closely with professor Maraffi to discuss the digital humanities content to be included in the design and development of the augmented reality tour for Mitchelville.

Sincerely,

Richard Shusterman, PhD. Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture. Florida Atlantic University

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Brian A. Canada, PhD Associate Professor of Computational Science, University of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB) One University Blvd, Bluffton, SC 29909 • (843) 208-8314 • [email protected] • US Citizen PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION Penn State University BS (with Highest Distinction), Chemical Engineering 1999 UCLA Graduate studies, Chemical Engineering 2002–2003 Penn State University PhD, Integrative Biosciences (Bioinformatics & Genomics option) 2010 Penn State University Graduate Minor, Computational Science 2010 APPOINTMENTS, EXPERIENCES, AND SELECTED HONORS USCB Chair, Department of Computer Science (as of July 1, 2019) 2019— USCB Academic Leadership Fellow, University of South Carolina System 2018–2020 Beaufort Digital Corridor Instructor for inaugural Beaufort Digital Corridor CODEcamp 2018 USCB Professor of the Year 2017 USCB Associate Professor, Computational Science (CSci) 2017— USCB Vincent P. Mesaric Faculty Award for Involvement in Student Activities 2016 USCB Assistant Professor, Computational Science (CSci) 2011–2017 Penn State University Research Assistant, College of Info Sci & Tech (IST) 2009–2010

SELECTED PRODUCTS RELATED TO THE PROPOSED WORK 1. Canada, B.A., Locally-Sourced Video Game Design Inspiration, Presentation to students at The STEM Academy at Bartlett, Savannah, GA, September 2018. [Invited] 2. Canada, B.A., Brasseur, C.L., Bugs ’N Boo Hags, presented at Indie Grits Festival 2018, Tapp’s Art Center, Columbia, SC, April 2018. [Selected for ‘Indie Bits 2018,” a showcase of southeastern interactive media; was selected again for 2019 showcase] 3. Canada, B.A., Southern Stories in Game Development, Geekend 2018, Savannah, GA, February 2018. [Invited] 4. Canada, B.A., Diversifying the Economy of Beaufort County via the Development of Locally-Inspired Video Games, All Creatures Great and Small: 2017-18 Wednesday Night Programs, First Presbyterian Church of Hilton Head Island, January 2018. [Invited] 5. Canada, B.A., G.E. Brings Good Things To Life: Using Video Game Development to Transform Student Perceptions of the General Education Curriculum, 2017 South Carolina Conference on Innovations in Teaching and Learning (SCCITL), Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, July 2017. [Selected for oral presentation] 6. Canada, B.A., Santa Elena Education Station (an educational video game installation featuring works by USCB Computational Science students Rob Currall, Paul Cerrillo, Will Eckrich, and Krysztof Lipski), Santa Elena History Center, Beaufort, SC, July 2017—. 7. Kilgore, R., Bessent, L., Canada, B.A., Blawat, C., Mallory, B., Vaughn, A., Innovating Across: A Cross-Functional Perspective on Organizing a University Conference on Student Retention, 2017 South Carolina Conference on Innovations in Teaching and Learning (SCCITL), Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, July 2017. [Selected for focused discussion] 8. Canada, B.A., A Series of Video Games Inspired by South Carolina Folklore, History, and Culture, Center for Digital Humanities Open House, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, September 2016. 9. Canada, B.A., Haints, Bugs, and Boo Hags, 2016 African-American History Month Event Series, University of South Carolina Beaufort, Bluffton, SC, February 2016. [Invited Presentation] 10. Canada, B.A., Canada, A.E., Brasseur, C.L., Bugs ’N Boo Hags: A Video Game Inspired by the History & Folklore of the South Carolina Lowcountry, PAX SOUTH 2016, San Antonio, TX, January 2016. [Selected for “PAX RISING,” an invited and curated group of up-and-coming independent game developers]

SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES 1. Active promotion and development of cross-disciplinary undergraduate research and curricula, with recent examples including: (i) Each fall semester since 2015, assigned final project in CSCI B145 (Object-Oriented Programming I) required students to design and develop a video game in Java based on a topic from a USCB course in the liberal arts, social sciences, or humanities; (ii) Partnered with John Salazar, PhD (Prof. of Hospitality Mgmt., USCB) in Spring 2014 to have students in CSCI B146 and HRTM B450 work together to prepare mobile app-based hospitality marketing projects; (iii) Director of USCB Computational Science Summer Research Workshops on Designing Effective User Interfaces and Experiences (2013) and Digital Image Processing (2011), both sponsored by SC EPSCoR; (iv) Committee member, Graphic Designer, and Webmaster for USCB Student Research and Scholarship Day since 2012; (v) Supervised preparation of funded student research proposals selected for the Magellan Scholar Awards (USC Office of Undergraduate Research) in 2012 and 2017 and have served as a Magellan proposal reviewer since 2013; (vi) Supervised numerous CSci & Biology students on award- winning poster presentations for USCB Research Day since 2011 2. STEM Outreach: (i) Co-PI and S-STEM Advisor for “Enabling the Future: Scholarships in Computational Science” scholarship program, funded by NSF Award #1259283, PI: Yiming Ji, PhD, Prof. of CSci at USCB; (ii) Co-PI, Recruiter, Graphic/Web Designer, and Co-Director of SharkBytes, a one-day, invitation-only STEM outreach program that brought over 80 secondary students to visit USCB in March 2013 (co-sponsored by the Heritage Classic Foundation and the Verizon Wireless Foundation); (iii) Participant in 2014 STEMposium at Bolden Elementary/Middle School (a U.S. Dept of Defense Education Activity School in Beaufort, SC) 3. Mobile App Development Teaching and Service: (i) Developed and published USCBsafety campus safety app for iOS and Android (starting from web app originally co-developed with USCB student Bill Glesias); (ii) Developed and published USCB Research Day (official app-based event guide for the USCB Student Research and Scholarship Day) for both iOS and Android; (iii) Developed new course CSCI B321: Database-Driven Application Development (on PHP/MySQL and Android application development), first offered Spring 2014; (iv) Led USCB to join iOS University Developer Program in 2015 (with Eddie King, USCB Director of I.T.) 4. Web Development Service Activities: (i) With student members of the USCB chapter of ACM, led the 2016 redesign of the Penn Center National Historic Landmark District website (St. Helena Island, SC) and the 2018 redesign of Heritage Library Foundation (Hilton Head Island, SC); (ii) Developed database and user interface for USCB’s NSF S-STEM scholarship application website; (iii) Created the USCB Marketing Toolbox and materially participated in the redesign, testing, and deployment of the new USCB website and integrated marketing materials (with STAMATS, Inc.); (iv) Co-PI and technical project lead for SIMMER Phase I: Developing an Electronic Genetics Recitation (with USCB students Bill Glesias, Ryan Corn, and Calvin Calvert; funded by 2013 RISE grant, PI: Joseph Staton, PhD, Professor of Biology and Marine Science, USCB) 5. Career and Extracurricular Advising for CSci students: (i) Founding member and past faculty advisor for USCB chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery; (ii) Regularly transport, accompany, and advise USCB students attending the Science, Engineering, and Technology (S.E.T.) Career Fairs at USC-Columbia; (iii) Actively seek out opportunities for student participation at regional workshops and conferences such as CODEtalks (Charleston, SC) and Geek-End (Savannah, GA); (iv) Spearheaded partnership between USCB and IT-ology (Columbia, SC) in 2013 to help provide CSci students with technical interview preparation services 6. Referee for National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of International Science and Engineering, Program in Catalyzing New International Collaborations. Also reviewer for Bioinformatics; PLoS ONE; IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (Part A); as well as Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer) COLLABORATORS & OTHER AFFILIATIONS a. Collaborators and Co-Editors (published works): Candace L. Brasseur (Holy Trinity Classical Christian School), Keith C. Cheng (Penn State), Timothy K. Cooper (Penn State), Yanxi Liu (Penn State), John C. Schleicher (Penn State / Microsoft), Georgia K. Thomas (Penn State / SUNY Upstate Medical University), James Z. Wang (Penn State) b. Graduate Advisors: James Z. Wang (Integrative Biosciences, Information Sciences & Technology, Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State); Keith C. Cheng (Integrative Biosciences, Experimental Pathology, Functional Genomics, Penn State); Kenneth M. Weiss (Integrative Biosciences, Biological Anthropology, Evolutionary Genomics, Penn State) c. Mentoring and Supervision of Undergraduate Student Researchers: Alexis Miller (USCB class of 2020), Calvin Calvert (USCB, now at Reynolds American), Andrew Wetmore (USCB class of 2020), Bill Glesias (USCB, now at Fidelity), Ryan Corn (USCB, now at Blue Acorn), John Hollingsworth (USCB, now at Gulfstream), Ivana Simic (USCB, now at Gulfstream), Sarah Ludwig-Monty (USCB, now at Duke University River Center), Kelsey Bauer (Penn State, now at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center), John C. Schleicher (Penn State, now at Microsoft). Total: 10

May 21, 2019

Christopher Maraffi Asst. Prof. of Multimedia Production, MFA, MSc. Media, Technology, and Entertainment MFA Program School of Communication & Multimedia Studies Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 33432

Dear NEH Grant Committee Members,

It is my pleasure to serve as a digital media adviser on Professor Topher Maraffi’s NEH Digital Projects for the Public grant proposal Exploring the Roots of Freedom: Augmented Reality Tour for Mitchelville South Carolina Gullah-Geechee Heritage Site.

The Mitchelville augmented reality tour project is an exciting opportunity to bring together humanities scholars and digital media researchers to collaborate on new methodologies for educating the public about the history and culture of an important site related to Reconstruction history and Gullah-Geechee culture. Employing spatial computing headsets like the Magic Leap One and game engine technology for immersing visitors in a historical scene that is both interactive and educational is on the cutting edge of digital media research, and it has the potential to open up new experiential learning possibilities for museums and historical sites alike.

As a computational scientist with significant interest in the digital humanities and the exploration of cultural heritage in video games and related interactive experiences, I am looking forward to being part of this project. Since 2015, I have led web development projects related to cultural heritage preservation in the local community, including new websites for Penn Center National Historic Landmark District (St. Helena Island, SC) and the Heritage Library Foundation (Hilton Head Island, SC). This summer I will be publishing Bugs 'N Boo Hags, a new commercial video game inspired by South Carolina sea island folklore and history, including aspects of Gullah-Geechee culture. My experience in using the Unity game engine to develop a finished product suitable for widespread public consumption, combined with prior experience in VR/AR system development within Unity for research purposes, provides a strong foundation for developing the augmented reality tour applications being proposed for this project. My strong ties to the local community will also help to ensure and sustain public support and goodwill for the project.

I strongly and enthusiastically support the proposed research. If Professor Maraffi’s proposal is successfully funded, I look forward to meeting with him to begin discussing the design and development of the augmented reality tour applications.

Sincerely,

Brian Canada, PhD Associate Professor of Computational Science Chair, Department of Computer Science (as of July 1, 2019) University of South Carolina Beaufort Biographical Sketch Dr. Arnav H. Jhala

College of Engineering, North Carolina State University e-mail: [email protected], tel: +1-919-513-6698

(a) Professional Preparation Gujarat University, Gujarat, India; Computer Engineering; B.Eng., 2001 North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; Computer Science; Ph.D., 2009

(b) Appointments 2016–present: Associate Professor, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 2015–2016: Associate Professor, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 2009–2015: Assistant Professor, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 2008-2009: Assistant Professor, IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark 2003-2004: Research Programmer, Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern Cali- fornia, Los Angeles, CA

(c) Relevant Publications 1. Inferring Performer Skill from Aesthetic Quality Features in a Dance Game Gesture Corpus, C. Maraffi, S. Ishikawa, and A. Jhala, Aesthetics in Games Workshop at AIIDE 2013, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 2013. 2. What Does That ?-Block Do? Learning Latent Causal Affordances From Mario Play Traces, by A. Summerville, M. Mateas, M. Behrooz, and A. Jhala, submitted to the 11th International Conference on The Foundations of Digital Games(FDG), 2016. 3. Analyzing the Impact of Camera Viewpoint on Player Psychophysiology, by H P Martinez, A Jhala, and G Yannakakis, Proceedings of the conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII09), Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 2009. 4. Cognitive and Experiential Interestingness in Abstract Visual Narrative, by M. Behrooz, A. Mobra- maein, A. Jhala, E. Whitehead, Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), pp. 136–141, Madison, WI, 2018. 5. Choice Poetics by Example, P. Mawhorter, C. Zegura, A. Gray,A. Jhala, N. Wardrip-Fruin, M. Mateas, Arts 7(3) - 47, 2018 6. From Mechanics to Meaning, A. Summerville, C. Martens, M. Mateas, N. Wardrip-Fruin, A. Jhala, IEEE Transactions on Games (ToG), 2017 7. Towards Affective Camera Control in Games, G. Yannakakis, H P Martinez, A Jhala, User-Modeling and User Adapted Interaction (UMUAI), 2010. 8. Cinematic Narrative Discourse: Representation, Generation, and Evaluation, A Jhala and R M Young, IEEE Transactions on Games (ToG), 2010. 9. Opponent State Modeling in RTS games with Limited Information using Markov Random Fields by M.Leece and A. Jhala, IEEE Computational Intelligence and Games Conference (CIG), Dortmund, Germany 2014. (d) Synergistic Activities 1. Conference service: (i) Conference Chair(2015) and Program Chair(2014): “AAAI AI in Interactive Digital Entertain- ment Conference” (ii) Workshop Organizer and Steering Committee Member: “Intelligent Narrative Technologies”, 2009–2019 (iii) Founding Chair and Steering Committee Member: “Workshop on Intelligent Cinematography and Editing”, 2007–2019 (iv) Proposal Reviewer: US National Science Foundation CISE Directorate; Canadian NSERC; Ice- landing Research Council; UK EPSRC; US NSF Graduate Fellowship program. (v) Journal and Conference Reviewing: IEEE Transactions on Graphics, Artificial Intelligence, Jour- nal of AI Research, Constraints, AAAI Conference, SIGGRAPH Conference.

2. University service: (i) Director, Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Cluster in Visual Narrative (includes an interdisci- plinary group of faculty members from Art, Computer Engineering, Design, English, and History) (ii) Campus Director(Faculty Assistant to Provost), University of California Education Abroad Pro- gram, Santa Cruz Campus (2015—2016)

May 21, 2019

Christopher Maraffi School of Communication & Multimedia Studies Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 33432

Dear NEH Grant Committee Members,

I am pleased to serve as a digital media collaborator and technical adviser on Professor Maraffi’s NEH Digital Projects for the Public grant proposal Exploring the Roots of Freedom: Augmented Reality Tour for Mitchelville South ​ Carolina Gullah-Geechee Heritage Site.

The Mitchelville augmented reality tour project is an exciting opportunity to bring together humanities scholars and digital media researchers. This collaboration has excellent potential to develop novel methodologies for educating the public about the history and culture of an important site related to Reconstruction history and Gullah-Geechee culture. The project is well-framed and takes advantage of local expertise across disciplines. Employing spatial computing headsets like the Magic Leap One, from a company based in Florida for development of immersive experiences for visitors in a historical scene that is both interactive and educational is on the cutting edge of digital media research. The team is well-poised to take on this challenge. The project seeks to make contributions to interaction design, pedagogical design for informal learning, and participatory experiences for education.

My research background is in the development of adaptive algorithms for interactive experiences--such as games. Professor Maraffi and I have successfully collaborated on the Performatology project for judging aesthetic quality of dance performers using motion capture technology. This project has led to successful publications at leading computer science venues. My contribution to the project is primarily on the software development, and statistical analysis and evaluation of the data collected from the deployed AR application.

I enthusiastically support this research, and if funded by NEH, look forward to meeting with professor Maraffi to discuss the design and development of the augmented reality tour applications.

Sincerely,

Arnav Jhala Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science Director, Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Cluster in Visual Narrative North Carolina State University [email protected] RICARDO TOBON Storyteller, Collaborator, Author & International Lecturer

SUMMARY

I have helped push the boundaries of performance and storytelling in visual effects, games and animation at studios that include Sony Interactive Entertainment, Digital Domain, Weta Digital, and DreamWorks Animation. I’m excited about the future of storytelling media and I’m eager to share my experience with aspiring artists so we can push the field further than ever before.

EXPERIENCE

December 2018 – Animation Director Current Vital Game Studios, Los Angeles, California • Help push the boundaries of video game animation. • Establish the style and feel of animation for Vital Game Studios’ games. • Provide direction and mentorship to the internal and outsourcing animation teams. • Direct talent during motion capture shoots. • Advice engineers and tech artists to ensure the game engine can deliver the best animation possible.

April 2015 – Head of Animation & Virtual Performance November 2018 Tangent Games (formerly Tangentlemen), Los Angeles, California • Leveraged the power of virtual production for cinematic and gameplay storytelling. • Provided the highest level of keyframe and mocap animation. • Gave feedback, direction and mentorship to the internal and outsourcing animation teams. • Created previs sequences for in-game interactions and cinematics.

May 2014 – Performance Animation Consultant April 2015 DreamWorks Animation, Los Angeles, California • Helped develop and implement DreamWorks’ performance animation process. • Provided the highest quality of virtual performance and production. • Helped the studio leverage virtual production techniques to lower the cost of animation.

December 2013 – Animation and Camera Layout May 2014 Digital Domain, Los Angeles, California • Game trailer for Battleborn (Animation & Layout | PC, Xbox One, PS4). • Cinematics for Infamous: Second Son (Animation | PS4). • Game trailer for EVOLVE (Animation | PC, Xbox One, PS4).

May 2013 – On-location Mocap Consultant November 2013 Weta Digital | 20th Century Fox, Various U.S. Locations • Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes. • Part of the team tasked with capturing the performances of Andy Serkins, Toby Kebbell, Judy Greer, Karin Konoval, Terry Notary and the rest of the apes cast alongside main live-action photography. • Part of the virtual production team capturing digital performances on the mocap stage.

February 2011 – Lead Technical Animator April 2013 Sony Computer Entertainment America, San Diego, California

Games: Killzone: Shadow Fall | Knack | The Last of Us | Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception | God of War Ascension | Resistance: Burning Skies | Uncharted: Golden Abyss | Fuse | Dust 514 | Sorcery | Defiance | Full list of game credits available upon request.

Feature Films: Edge of Tomorrow (Mocap TD) | Oz: The Great and Powerful (Mocap TD). | Men In Black 3 (Mocap TD) | The Amazing Spiderman (Mocap TD).

2 of 2 Web: ricardotobon.com email: [email protected] cell: (310)422-6753

EXPERIENCE (CONTINUED)

May 2004 – Freelance Animator & Digital Artist April 2013 Various clients & projects, Various Locations • Freelance services in, direction, animation, virtual production and previs.

Projects Include: Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey (Previs Animator) | Rock Trooper (Writer & Director) | Holy Shot (Director & Cinematographer) | Flight of Icarus (Writer & Director) | Mark MacKenna's Banana Tail (Animator).

Jun 2004 – Professor of Motion Capture, Software Technology and Art History February 2011 Full Sail University, Orlando, Florida. • Designed the Motion Capture, Art History and Software Technology courses, lab assignments and related learning materials. • Lectured in the Motion Capture, Art History and Software Technology courses. • Responsible for the Motion Capture and CG camera lab. • Managed, trained and mentored the instructional team, including associate professors, lab instructors and lecture assistants. • Promoted from associate professor for character rigging.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

September 2017 Guest Lecturer USC Interactive Media & Games Division, Los Angeles, California • Lectured on the animation, art and tech of the psychedelic horror game “Here They Lie”.

November 2012 International Lecturer Game Connection Europe, Paris, France • Lectured on the subject of high-end animation and motion capture for games and films.

June 2008 – Author June 2009 Foris Force, Orlando, Florida • Wrote Amazon’s bestseller text guide “The Mocap Book: A Practical Guide to the Art of Motion Capture”.

January 2008 International Lecturer Northumberland Rising Creative Labs, UK • Participated as a lecturer for the creative labs for the Northumberland Rising project. • Hosted a live-remote motion capture session for the event. • Created collaborative motion capture / live music performance piece with world-renowned composers Nitin Sawhney and Sandra Kerr.

EDUCATION

May 2004 Master of Fine Arts in Computer Art Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Savannah, Georgia 3D Animation Track.

July, 2001 Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Journalism Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB), Medellín, Colombia Major in Film and Television.

SKILLS Facial Animation, Body Animation, Virtual Production, Mocap, Previs, VR, Layout, Rigging, Direction, Cinematography.

Software: Maya, Motion Builder, Unreal Engine 4, 3D Max, Blade, Unity3D, Cortex, Endorphin.

Languages: Fluent in English and Spanish.

Web: ricardotobon.com email: [email protected] cell: (310)422-6753

June 6th, 2019

Christopher Maraffi Assist. Prof. of Multimedia Production, MFA, MSc. Media, Technology, and Entertainment MFA Program School of Communication & Multimedia Studies Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 33432

Dear NEH Grant Committee,

I will be delighted to serve as a digital media adviser on Professor Maraffi’s NEH Digital Project for the Public “Discovery” grant proposal titled Exploring the Roots of Freedom: Augmented Reality Tour for Mitchelville South Carolina Gullah-Geechee Heritage Site.

The Mitchelville augmented reality tour project is an exciting opportunity to bring together humanities scholars and digital media researchers to collaborate on new methodologies for educating the public about the history and culture of an important site related to reconstruction history and Gullah-Geechee culture. Employing spatial computing headsets like the Magic Leap One and game engine technology for immersing visitors in a historical scene that is both interactive and educational is on the cutting edge of digital media research, and has the potential to open up a new experiential learning possibilities for historical sites and museums.

My professional experience in animation, motion capture, video games and visual effects will enable me to contribute to the project’s digital characters and CG assets. Some of my previous projects include Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes, Men In Black 3, The Last Of Us, Uncharted as well as performance capture consulting for Weta Digital and Dreamworks Animation among many others. I will also be able to advise on game technology and production techniques for Mr. Maraffi’s research, such as the technology and techniques that were the cornerstone of my latest Playstation VR Launch title Here They Lie, a game project in which we pushed what’s possible in performance and storytelling in the realm of interactive entertainment.

I enthusiastically support this research, and if funded by NEH, look forward to meeting with professor Maraffi to discuss the design and development of the mocap and augmented reality tour applications for Mitchelville.

Sincerely,

Ricardo Tobon

Ricardo Tobon, MFA. Animation Director at Vital Games Former Course Director at Full Sail University Cell: (310) 422-6753 e-mail: [email protected] LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ricardotobon Francis X. McAfee Associate Professor, College of Arts & Letters Florida Atlantic University, Downtown Fort Lauderdale Campus

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION: FloridaAtlanticUniversity ComputerArts MFA,1998 FloridaAtlanticUniversity FineArts(Printmaking) BFA,1989

APPOINTMENTS:

Academic 2008- Present Associate Professor, FAU School of Communication & Multimedia Studies 2004-2008 AssociateProfessor,FAUVisualArtsandArtHistoryTenured 1999-2004 AssistantProfessor,ComputerArts,CollegeofLiberalArts

Administrative Interim Director/Associate Director, Florida Center for Electronic Communication1998-2006 Research Associate, Florida Center for Electronic Communication 1995-1998 Technical Artist, Florida Center for Electronic Communication 1991-1995 Director for Chapters, ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee 2004-2007

Publications "Computer Graphics Research in the Humanities”, COMPUTER GRAPHICS, Volume 37, Number 1 page, November 2003. I wrote this article about using high-end computer graphics technologies in building humanities based academic programs at FAU’s Center for Electronic Communication. It explains the philosophy of the research center and the perspective on the Computer Arts program.

"Shake, Composite, and Roll", 3D MAGAZINE, Volume 6 Number 7 page 55, July 2000. This was a software review for a digital compositing package that I had just finished beta testing.

"Take a Look Overhead", 3D MAGAZINE, Volume 5 Number 12 page 24, December 1999. This article evolved into a featured cover story. The article was written on the Spiderman Thrill Ride that had just opened at Universal Studios in Orlando FL. "Take a Look Overhead", covered production issues associated with making a full 3D stereoscopic film ride from practical sets to computer generated animation.

Other Significant: Broadcast Screenings and Awards of Computer-Animated Video

1. Sudwestrundfunk, (SWR) Baden-Baden, Germany, 2003. (Aired through the year 2005): Senior Citizen, Incantation 2. Canadian International Annual Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario 1998: Incantation 3. Canadian International Annual Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario 1995: Prayer 4. International Award for Video Art, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, 1995: Senior Citizen 5. “Metropolis”, Television Espanola, Barcelona, Spain 1995: Prayer 6. Image Forum Festival, Tokyo, Japan 1995: Vincent, Vincent 7. Videofest (8th Annual), Berlin Film Festival, Germany 1995: Senior Citizen 8. Intercom Film and Video Competition (In association with the Chicago Film Festival), Chicago 1998: Incantation 9. Video Shorts 17, 911 Media Arts Center, Seattle, Washington April 25th 1998: Incantation 10. Living Room Festival, KQED, Inc. 1996: Vincent, Vincent 11. 14th Annual Utah Film and Video Festival (UFVC), Salt Lake City, Utah 1995: Prayer 12. Video Shorts 14, 911 Media Arts Center, Seattle, Washington 1995: Prayer 13. American Film Institute, National Video Festival, Hollywood, CA, 1994: Senior Citizen 14. Intercom Film and Video Festival, Chicago 1994: Vincent, Vincent 15. 18th Annual Poetry Film/Video Festival, Award winner, San Francisco, 1993: Vincent, Vincent 16. 14th Annual Telly Awards, Finalist, Cincinnati, Ohio 1993: Vincent, Vincent 17. The New York Festivals, Finalist, New York, NY 1992: Vincent. Vincent

SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES:

1. SIGGRAPH Chapter Speaking Events As a volunteer with ACM SIGGRAPH Professional and Student Chapters Committee, Professor McAfee organize events for the local Fort Lauderdale ACM SIGGRAPH Professional Chapter and for the annual SIGGRAPH conference. Industry professionals and scholars speak on a wide range of topics covering computer graphics and interactive techniques. 2. MODS Apptitude and Augmented Reality Apps This is an ongoing effort with partners from FAU's Engineering department, Daruma Tech, a multimedia production company in FAU's research park, the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Discovery and Science (MODS), and support through United Way of Broward County. The museum recruits top-performing high school students to intern at the museum. The same students are dual enrolled at FAU taking a mobile App development course during the summer. The focus of the project oriented class is to produce an Augmented Reality App that compliments or adds value to the museum's existing physical exhibits. Daruma Tech combines the student created content into the new "Apptitude" mobile application contracted by the museum. 3. Undergraduate Cross-disciplinary Mobile Applications Courses McAfee co-ordinated the development of eLearning courses with Dr Ravi Shankar in Computer Science. Each instructor taught in their respective departments, but integrated the curriculum so that Multimedia artists-students could collaborate on teams with computer software developers to create mobile applications using the Google Android platform. (Summer 2012) The courses were taught across different campuses. Students begin learning their respective disciplines in arts or engineering and then finish by developing team projects. Web-based collaboration tools and face-to-face meetings were both utilized to develop the final prototypes. One team turned professional launching a company, Stadson Technologies, within the FAU Research Park’s Business Incubator. 4. High School Students Mobile Applications summer courses. As a collaborator with the Center for Computer Systems Integration at FAU he incorporated creative content production in the Engineering Scholars Program (ESP) summer courses which taught methods of mobile application development to top-achieving high school students in each summer since 2011. 5. Animation to Support Research Efforts. His computer animated vision of clean energy technologies under development by FAU's Ocean Engineering department played a key role in establishing the Center for Excellence in Ocean Energy Technology winning a $5 million endowment from the State of Florida (2007). The same center was later designated by the U.S. Department of Energy as a national research center renaming it as the Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center. Other grant funded projects included collaborations with the International Hurricane Research Center at Florida International University. Animation and videos were created to show how building materials used in architecture could be compromised during extreme wind conditions. This was presented at the Governor’s Hurricane Conference and distributed on DVDs as part of the grant deliverables. (2004) The Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters The School of Communication & Multimedia Studies 3200 College Avenue Liberal Arts, Room 418 Davie, Florida 33314 tel: 954-236-1373 www.fau.edu/scms

DATE: June 1st, 2019

RE: Exploring the Roots of Freedom AR Proposal Christopher Maraffi Assist. Prof. of Multimedia Production, MFA, MSc. Media, Technology, and Entertainment MFA Program School of Communication & Multimedia Studies

Dear NEH Grant Committee,

I will be delighted to serve as a digital media collaborator on Professor Maraffi’s NEH Digital Projects for the Public “Discovery” grant proposal titled Exploring the Roots of Freedom: Augmented Reality Tour for Mitchelville South Carolina Gullah-Geechee Heritage Site.

The Mitchelville augmented reality tour project is an exciting opportunity to bring together humanities scholars and digital media researchers to collaborate on new methodologies for educating the public about the history and culture of an important site related to Reconstruction history and Gullah-Geechee culture. Employing spatial computing headsets like the Magic Leap One and game engine technology for immersing visitors in a historical scene that is both interactive and educational is on the cutting edge of digital media research, and has the potential to open up a new experiential learning possibilities for historical sites and museums.

My background in computer graphics research and teaching includes 3D computer animation, digital compositing, video production, and recently includes augmented reality development for smartphones. Over the last 10 years I have worked with Dr. Ravi Shankar in FAU’s College of Engineering to co-teach courses for mobile device application development which eventually metamorphosized into augmented reality apps for the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Discovery & Science (MODS). My role involved creative aspects while the other professor focused on functional aspects of the code. I feel this recent cross-disciplinary collaboration with MODS will enable me to make significant contributions to the project.

I enthusiastically support this research, and if funded by NEH, look forward to meeting with professor Maraffi to discuss the design and development of the 3D modeling and augmented reality tour applications for Mitchelville.

Sincerely,

Francis X. McAfee, MFA. Associate Professor – Animation and New Media Director - MFA in Media, Technology, and Entertainment [email protected]

JOEY BARGSTEN, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Interactive Multimedia and Graduate Faculty, MFA in Media, Technology, and Entertainment School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, Florida Atlantic University • 416 Liberal Arts Building • Davie, FL 33314 • [email protected] • Office : (954) 236-1372 • Text Message : 954-254-0141

AREAS OF RESEARCH Experimental electronic and acoustic music composition and sound design for motion and interactive media, real-time notation and time structure generation, algorithmic composition, procedural audio and sound design; media production and design, video and digital film production, digital media performance, extended realities (XR); visual media, publication layout, and web art and design. EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Ph.D., Music Composition Research: Experimental and Electronic Music UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Master of Arts, Music Composition IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY Bachelor of Music, Music Education ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS - COMMUNICATION AND MULTIMEDIA FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY Associate Professor with Tenure, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, Spring 2013 to present Assistant Professor, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, Fall 2007-Spring 2013 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Visiting Assistant Professor, Digital Arts Program, Department of Art, Fall 2000-Spring 2005 ATLANTA COLLEGE OF ART (merged with Savannah College of Art and Design) Adjunct Instructor, Spring 1999-Spring 2000 GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, Spring 1999 AWARDS—COMPETITIVE Winner, Audience Award, for BAD MIND TIME™, (See Interactive Media Exhibitions) Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart, Germany, January 2004 Winner, Silver Award in CD-ROM, for BAD MIND TIME™, Special Event Entertainment Category, Broadcast Design Association/ International Design Competition, Los Angeles, CA, June 2002 PRINT Magazine Interaction 2000 Annual Award for BAD MIND TIME™, NYC, November 2000 CINDY Award 1999, International Association of Audio Visual Communicators for BAD MIND TIME™, March 2000 Winner, Musicians’ Accord Composition Competition (NYC), August 1985 Finalist, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Composition Competition, January 1982 Guest Composer, Indiana State University Composition Competition, September 1980 AWARDS—GRANTS (selective list) 2018 Florida Atlantic University Technology Fee Grant to create MTEn XR Lab from current graduate lab School of the Arts Grant (2016), FAU College of Arts and Letters, for virtual reality gallery of student glitch art Winner, Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Community Grant (2015) for MelanchoLalaland™, transmedia opera Winner, State of Florida Individual Artists Fellowships, Department of State (2015). Category: Interdisciplinary Art (2015) Knight Arts Challenge Grant (2013) for MelanchoLalaland™, transmedia opera REFEREED PUBLICATIONS (BOOK AUTHORED) (selective list) Experimental Media Voodoo: A Practicum for Digital Art, Music, and Text, Austin, TX: Sentia Publishing, LLC (2018). REFEREED PUBLICATIONS (CHAPTERS IN BOOK) "Multimedia," in The Internet Encyclopedia, edited by Hossein Bidgola, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, (2003).

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NEW MEDIA PERFORMANCE (REFEERED, INVITATION) (selective list) Miami Beach Cinematheque Special Event: MelanchoLalaland™ by Joey Bargsten (Composer, Director) and Thea Zimmer (Librettist, Choreographer). Miami Beach Cinematheque, Miami Beach, FL, September 2015. Transmedia opera for live operatic vocalists (Matt Maness, tenor; Vanessa Rose Rivera, mezzo soprano; Michael Angelo Gonzalez, bass-baritone) and video, with electronic music and digitally realized orchestral score. Video intermezzo features the voice of Katharine Goeldner, mezzo soprano, regular contributor to Metropolitan Opera productions, NYC. Funded by grants from the Knight Foundation, the State of Florida Department of State Bureau of Cultural Affairs, the Miami-Dade Cultural Association, the College Advisory Board of the College of Arts and Letters from Florida Atlantic University, the Bailyn Foundation, and the Avid Corporation. Inkub8 ("incubate") Gallery, Wynwood Artists Walk Series, Miami, FL April 2012. Performed: Detainer Series: Trialog and Interludes, (multimedia work for digital interactive media, electronic music, and dance), Joey Bargsten, designer, director, composer, with Clarence Brooks, dancer, FAU Department of Theatre and Dance FAU Department of Theatre and Dance Concert, Boca Raton, February 2012. Exhibited: Detainer Series: Trialog, video documentation film by Joey Bargsten, designer, director, composer, with dancers, from FAU dance community, with additional interactive materials by FAU SCMS MFA students Showtel 8, West Palm Beach, April 2010. Performed: meme™ Jam 3 (media-experi-mental-ensemble), Joey Bargsten, director, composer, video artist, with live media contributions from 5 FAU SCMS students New Poetry Seminar Featuring Poets from the Flarf and Dusie Poetry Collectives, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, September 2006. Performed: Hover/Iaght with Joey Bargsten, director/creator of live music and video backdrop for poetry written and recited by conference members and Dickinson College students. DIGITAL FILM EXHIBITIONS (REFEREED) (selective list) AIGA Centennial Celebration/New World Symphony Concert, Miami Beach, FL, January, 2014. Video: Passing Bird, Joey Bargsten (director), accompanying music by Toru Takemitsu ReBound Dance Festival, New Haven, CT, November, 2009. Video: down/side, Joey Bargsten (director, composer), Clarence Brooks, FAU, (choreographer, dancer) Zero Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA December 2008. Video: Sticky Notes Brainwash Movie Festival, Oakland, CA July 2008. Video: FILMDOG (Winner, 3rd place, Best Director) New York Minute Film Festival, New York, NY September 2005. Video: PROJEK IAGHT San Francisco Bay-ennial, CA, August 2005. Video: PROJEK IAGHT College Art Association Annual Convention, Artspace Gallery, Atlanta, GA, February 2005. Video: Anatomy of Melancholy SOUND DESIGN/ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOR OTHER PROJECTS (REFEREED) (selective list) Whitney Art Works, DUAL SITE (multimedia theater work), Portland, ME, with Leon Johnson writer/ director, John Schmor, author, January 2010. Contributed: Joey Bargsten, project composer and music director Issue Project Room, BLUE HAMMER (multimedia theater work), Brooklyn, NY, with Leon Johnson writer/director, January 2010. Contributed: Joey Bargsten, project composer and music director Whitney Art Works, BLUE HAMMER, Portland, ME, Leon Johnson, writer/director, April 2009. Contributed: Joey Bargsten, project composer and music director FAU Department of Theatre and Dance, Boca Raton, Titus Andronicus, Sheldon Deckelbaum, director, February 2008. Contributed: Joey Bargsten, composer and music director. Nomination, Certificate of Merit Award, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, soundtrack for Titus Andronicus, February 2008 WEBSITES Bad Mind Time™ Site — http://www.badmindtime.com MelanchoLalaland™ Site — http://www.melancholalaland.com FAU Faculty Profile Page — http://www.fau.edu/scms/bargsten.php Articles, Music Scores, and Various Projects on Academia.edu (https://fau.academia.edu/JoeyBargsten), SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/skyron/tracks), and Archive.org (search terms: “Joey Bargsten”). DVDs and books on Amazon.com (search terms: “Joey Bargsten”)

School of Communication & Multimedia Studies 777 Glades Road Boca Raton, FL 33431 tel: 561.297.3850 fax: 561.297.2615 www.fau.edu/scms

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Christopher Maraffi Assist. Prof. of Multimedia Production, MFA, MSc. Media, Technology, and Entertainment MFA Program School of Communication & Multimedia Studies Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 33432

Dear NEH Grant Committee,

I will be delighted to serve as a digital media adviser and collaborator on Professor Maraffi’s NEH Digital Projects for the Public “Discovery” grant proposal titled Exploring the Roots of Freedom: Augmented Reality Tour for Mitchelville South Carolina Gullah-Geechee Heritage Site.

The Mitchelville augmented reality tour project is an exciting opportunity to bring together humanities scholars and digital media researchers to collaborate on new methodologies for educating the public about the history and culture of an important site related to Reconstruction history and Gullah-Geechee culture. By employing game engine technology and spatial computing headsets like the Magic Leap One, this project will immerea visitors in a historical scene that is both interactive and educational. The Mitchelville AR Tour exemplifies the cutting edge of digital media research, and has the potential to open up new experiential learning possibilities for historical sites and museums.

My experience as music composer and digital media artist has afforded me a unique perspective in creative collaborations involving extended realities (VR, AR, and mixed realities). Sound and music will enhance the immersive experience for the audience, and my previous collaborations creating music and sound design for theater, film, and interactive media will enable me to contribute creative solutions to spatial audio for this project.

I wholeheartedly support this research, and if funded by NEH, I would look forward to meeting with Professor Maraffi to discuss the design and development of music, sound design, and spatial audio for augmented reality tour applications for Mitchelville.

Sincerely,

Joey Bargsten, PhD. Associate Professor of Interactive Multimedia Graduate Faculty, Media, Technology, and Entertainment MFA Program School of Communication and Multimedia Studies Florida Atlantic University

Lee Soroko 320 NW 22nd Street Boca Raton, Florida 33431 305.458.9306 E-mail: [email protected]

CAREER OBJECTIVE: To foment creativity, collaboration and passion when examining and creating all forms of theatre.

EDUCATION The University of Texas at Austin 1990-1993 Master of Fine Arts Degree in Acting, professional actor training program Morton Brown Scholarship Recipient, for creative and academic excellence Dissertation, The Macbeth Project: “In spite of thunder” The University of Wisconsin Stevens Point 1985-1990 Bachelor of Arts Degree in English and Theatre, cum laude Karate Club, University Fencing Team, and Drama Players Organization Peace Haven College Center, London, United Kingdom 1987 Shakespeare, Theatre and 20th Century Art Jagielonion Uniwersytet, Krakow, Poland 1986 Polish Theatre and Film of the 20th Century

AWARDS 1993 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Mask and Creative Expression 2000 Guilford College Kenan Grant for new course development - Acting for the Camera 2001 Guilford College Kenan Grant for new course development - Stage Combat 2005 Savannah Collage of Art and Design Presidential Fellowship - Fight Direction & Fighting in Film

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Florida Atlantic University 2017-present Assistant Professor of Movement University of Miami 2012-2017 Senior Lecturer of Movement and Acting 2007-2012 Lecturer of Movement and Acting New York Film Academy 2015-2017 Adjunct Instructor (Acting for Film) Adjunct Instructor (Violence for Film) Savannah College of Art and Design 2005-2007 Professor of Performing Arts North Carolina School of the Arts 2013-Summer Faculty in Stage Combat, School of Drama 2012-Summer Guest Faculty in Stage Combat, School of Drama 2011-Summer Guest Faculty in Stage Combat, School of Drama 2010-Summer Guest Faculty in Stage Combat, School of Drama 2007-Summer Faculty in Stage Combat, School of Drama Yale University 1998-2000 Adjunct Lecturer, Alexander Technique, Yale School of Music 1999-2000 Adjunct Lecturer, Acting for the Opera, Yale School of Music New York University, School of Professional Studies 1995-1999 Adjunct Instructor (Acting) 1996-1998 Adjunct Instructor (Movement for the Actor)

UNIVERSITY COURSES TAUGHT MOVEMENT COURSES Graduate Movement I, II, III, IV Florida Atlantic University Alexander Technique I, II (Graduate Students) Yale University, School of Music Movement for the Actor (Graduate Students) NYU, School of Professional Studies Conservatory Movement I, Freshmen (Viewpoints) University of Miami Soroko 2

Conservatory Stage Combat I and II University of Miami Violence for Film New York Film Academy Stage Combat (Graduate and Undergraduate Students) North Carolina School for the Arts Full list upon request ACTING COURSES Graduate Acting for the Opera Yale University, School of Music Conservatory Senior Acting University of Miami Acting for Film New York Film Academy Acting for Film II (Scene Study II) New York Film Academy Acting for the Camera I & II Savannah College of Art and Des Full list upon request REPRESENTATIVE PROFESSIONAL FIGHT DIRECTION 2019 West Side Story (dir. Marcos Santana) Jupiter Maltz Theatre (LORT B+) 2018 Beauty and the Beast (dir. John Tartaglia) Jupiter Maltz Theatre (LORT B+) 2018 House on Fire, (dir. Bill Hayes) Palm Beach DramaWorks (LOA) 2018 Equus, (dir. J. Barry Lewis) Palm Beach DramaWorks (LOA) *Full list upon request

REPRESENTATIVE DIRECTING EXPERIENCE *Full list upon request

SPECIALIZED TRAINING Movement Alexander Technique Jim Hancock Combat (Certified Teacher, SAFD) Society of American Fight Directors Viewpoints Anne Bogart/SITI Company Stage Feldenkrais Jim Hancock Laban/Bartenieff Fundamentals Sharon Vasquez Suzuki Robyn Hunt Shotokan Karate Tony DeSardi, yodan (JKA and SKA) Acting Scene Study Uta Hagen at the HB Studio in Manhattan Meisner Technique Larry Silverberg, Felicity Huffman, Comedy Technique Jon Jory, Actors Theatre of Louisville

Directing Directing Jon Jory, Actors Theatre of Louisville Directing (6-week Graduate Seminar) Robert Wilson Maximum Impact Min. Paraphernalia Barrie Rutter, Royal Shakespeare Co. Director’s Tool Box Scott Zigler, --Atlantic Theatre

Stage Combat, Society of American Fight Directors 2007- Present Certified Teacher of Stage Combat 2010- Present Certified Instructor of Theatrical Firearms 2007-2013 National Governing Body, Treasurer

ACHIEVEMENTS National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Recipient, 1993 University of Texas full scholarship for Creative Promise and Academic Excellence, 1990-1993 Presidential Fellowship Award for the Study of Fight Direction of Stage and Screen, 2005 SCAD Kenan Grants for new course development: 2000, 2001 and 2002, Guilford College University of Miami “Friends of Theatre” Grant for Stage Combat Equipment, 2012 University of Miami research award for Fight Direction techniques in the US and UK, 2014 Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Department of Theatre and Dance, AH-114 777 Glades Road Boca Raton, FL 33431-0991 phone: 561.297.3810 fax: 561.297.2180 www.fau.edu/theatre

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

NEH Digital Projects for the Public Discovery Grant Exploring the Roots of Freedom: Augmented Reality Tour for Mitchelville South Carolina Gullah-Geechee Heritage Site

To Whom It May Concern:

I am writing to affirm my support of Assistant Professor Christopher Maraffi in his pursuit of the NEH Digital Projects for the Public Discovery Grant. As a colleague of his in the College of Arts and Letters at Florida Atlantic University, I am particularly excited to meet, advise and work with Professor Maraffi as he explores and utilizes the tools common to the theatre and my specific area of expertise.

In Exploring the Roots of Freedom: Augmented Reality Tour for Mitchelville South Carolina Gullah-Geechee Heritage Site, the use of theatrical techniques will be used to enhance the breadth scope and reach of this project. Specifically, the language of the theatre as it pertains to dialogue and movement will be engaged as part of the story telling device. As the Assistant Professor of Movement in the Department of Theatre & Dance, I will be of great assistance as to Professor Maraffi as he delves into using augmented reality to tell the story of the Gullah-Geechee Heritage Site. I have considerable experience as a professional actor, director and choreographer of violence for the stage and screen. I have worked with motion capture and can help guide the project in this regard. It is my plan to meet with him several times throughout the upcoming year as this project evolves and is given form.

Lastly, I look forward to working with Professor Maraffi and the team he has assembled. Please feel free to contact me should you have any additional question regarding my involvement in this project.

Sincerely,

Lee Soroko Assistant Professor of Movement Department of Theatre & Dance Florida Atlantic University Certified Teacher of Stage Combat, SAFD Certified Theatrical Firearms Instructor, SAFD (305) 458-9306

DEMETRIUS DUKES 901 Front Ave, Columbus, Georgia, 31901 | (954)-770-2997 | [email protected]

EDUCATION Florida Atlantic University Master of Fine Arts – Media Technology and Entertainment 2017 Florida Atlantic University Bachelor of Arts – Film Video and New Media Studies 2014

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Columbus State University Assistant Professor of Art (Animation) 2018-Present Developed animation concentration within the Department of Art

Courses: Fundamentals of Animation Advanced Character Animation Advanced Modeling and Surface Development Animation Studio Interactive Design Studio

Services: Scholarship Committee Member, Art Foundation Committee Member, Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) Member.

Florida Atlantic University Visiting Instructor 2017-2018 Facilitated graduate and undergraduate production courses in 3D Character Modeling, Animation, Pre-Production Studies and Game Design.

Courses: Fundamentals 3D Computer Animation Advanced 3D Computer Animation Advanced 3D Computer Modeling Fundamentals of Multimedia Visual Design for Film/Animation Preproduction, Prototyping and Previsualization (Graduate) 3D Production for Interactivity (Graduate) 3D Game Design Mobile Application Development

Florida Atlantic University Graduate Teaching Assistant 2014-2017 Lectured undergraduate production courses in 3D Computer Animation, Digital Compositing, Mobile Application Design, and Augmented Reality.

PROFESSONAL EXPERIENCE ARC Devices UI Designer/Graphic Artist 2015-2016 2015-2016 Developed promotional graphics for product advertisement. Designed mobile application UI for Android and iOS devices.

Freelance Artist Client: Splinter Studios 2015 Modeled/ Textured 3D assets for short films.

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PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS Remarque Magazine Artist Catalog 2017

Surrealism 2.0/Contemporary Games Analyzing Contemporary Games as a Re-emergence of Surrealism 2017

AWARDS AND EXHIBITIONS

Music Under the Dome Columbus, GA 2019

FLAMINGO FILM FESTIVAL Davie, FL 2016 Awarded: Best Experimental Film Nominated: Best Experimental Sound

SUPER 8 FILM FESTIVAL Fort Lauderdale, FL 2015

BROUGHAHA FILM AND VIDEO SHOWCASE Maitland Orlando, FL 2015

EMERGE DIGITAL MEDIA ART SHOWCASE Fort Lauderdale, FL 2013

THE OSCAR THOMAS FOUNDATION / KEEPERS OF THE DREAM EXHIBIT Fort Lauderdale, FL 2008

Christopher Maraffi 3200 College Ave Davie, FL 33314

Re: Letter of Commitment to develop Exploring the Roots of Freedom: Augmented Reality Tour for Mitchelville South Carolina Gullah-Geechee Heritage Site.

Dear Mr. Maraffi

I am writing to express my commitment to the NEH Digital Projects for the Public Discovery Grant to develop Exploring the Roots of Freedom: Augmented Reality Tour for Mitchelville South Carolina Gullah- Geechee Heritage Site. In addition to devoting my time as a 3D Modeling and Animation advisor to the project, I am also declaring my intent to attend all meetings specific to the development of the augmented reality tour.

For the past few years my academic and professional research interests have been centered around exploring 20th century art forms and their influence on interactive platforms. During my tenure as a CG generalist and educator, I have instructed animation and game development production courses at Florida Atlantic University while working as a professional artist. During this time, I’ve partnered with local companies and museums to explore the benefits of implementing augmented reality technologies into commercial and educational projects. Most recently I have been tasked with designing an animation concentration at Columbus State University.

As an advisor, I am excited to support director Maraffi proposal by offering the following support: Assistance in the construction, texturing and animation of assets necessary to facilitate the interactive experience outlined in the project proposal. If there are any additional tasks in which I may be of assistance, please let me now.

Best Regards,

Demetrius Dukes Assistant Professor of Art Columbus State University

Caroline Elizabeth Sawyer* Curriculum Vitae

Department of Social Sciences University of South Carolina Beaufort [email protected] 843.208.8223

Education

2016 Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Memphis Major Emphasis: Communication Dissertation Title: Ditka loves Prada: Deviancy and resistance through fantasy football

2006 Master of Arts, Austin Peay State University Major Emphasis: Corporate Comm Thesis Title: Raising Money for Special Olympics: The Ins & Outs of a 12-hour Live Telethon

2002 Bachelor of Business Administration, Baylor University Major Emphasis: Marketing

Teaching Experience

2016 – Present Assistant Professor, Communication Studies; Co-Director, Students Connected University of South Carolina Beaufort

Courses Taught COMM B220: Communication Digital Technologies COMM B225: Single Camera Production COMM B240: Media & Society COMM B255: Communication Studies Research COMM B305: Television Studio Production I COMM B306: Media 2.0 COMM B307: Documentary Theory & Aesthetics COMM B398: Lowcountry Author Series COMM B398: Student Media COMM B405: Television Studio Production II COMM B400: Communication and Popular Culture COMM B450: Intercultural Communication COMM B495: Communication Internship

Creative Scholarship Sawyer, C.E. (In Development). (Producer, Director, Editor). Authors By The River [Podcast Series]. Columbia, SC: South Carolina Educational Television

Sawyer, C.E. (In Development). (Producer, Director, Editor). Poets By The River [Podcast Series]. Columbia, SC: South Carolina Educational Television

Sawyer, C.E. (In Development). (Producer, Director, Editor). Reading By The River Book Club App [Mobile Application]. Columbia, SC: South Carolina Educational Television

Sawyer, C.E. (In Development). (Producer, Director, Editor). Storytime By The River [Digital Children’s Series]. Columbia, SC: South Carolina Educational Television

Sawyer, C.E. (2019). (Producer, Director, Editor). By The River, Season 2 [Television Series]. Columbia, SC: South Carolina Educational Television

Sawyer, C.E. (2019). (Producer, Director & Editor). By The River, Season 2 [Television Series Promos]. Columbia, SC: South Carolina Educational Television

Sawyer, C.E. (2019). (Producer). By The River, Season 2 [Television Series Digital Content Strategy]. Columbia, SC: South Carolina Educational Television

Sawyer, C.E. (2018). (Producer, Director, Editor). By The River, Season 1 [Television Series]. Columbia, SC: South Carolina Educational Television

Sawyer, C.E. (2018). (Producer, Director & Editor). By The River, Season 1 [Television Series Promos]. Columbia, SC: South Carolina Educational Television

Sawyer, C.E. (2018). (Producer). By The River, Season 1 [Television Series Digital Content Strategy].

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Columbia, SC: South Carolina Educational Television

Sawyer, C.E. (2009) (Producer & Director). Belief [Television Documentary]. Clarksville, TN: Cable 99

Sawyer, C.E. (2008) (Producer & Director). More Than Forty Minutes. [Television Documentary]. Clarksville, TN: Cable 99

Publications

Sawyer, C.E. & Rivera, K.D. (2016). Three Strategies for Implementing Authentic Altruism into your CSR Campaign. PR NEWS Corporate Social Responsibility & Green Public Relations Guidebook.

Markman, K.M. & Sawyer, C.E. (2014). Why Pod?: Further explorations of the motivations for independent podcasting. Journal of Radio and Audio Media, 21(1):20-35. DOI: 10.1080/19376529.2014.891211

Presentations

Sawyer, C.E. & Abraham, A. (2019, April). Partnering for success: Students Connected Barnwell Tabby Excavation Project. Epic-N invited presentation (Presenter).

Sawyer, C.E. (2019, April). Starting a Communication Center: Opportunities and Challenges. Panel presentation at Southern States Communication Association annual conference in Montgomery, AL. (Presenter).

Sawyer, C.E. (2019, March). Hire Me: Branding Yourself to Employers. Professional Presentation to NCCSHRM & ECUSHRM 2019 Student Summit in Charlotte, NC (Presenter).

Sawyer, C.E. (2018, September). Accelerating Student Success in Broadcasting: A Panel Discussion with SCETV Regional Station Directors and University/College Faculty. Panel presentation at Carolinas Communication Association annual conference in Charlotte, NC. (Presenter).

Grants

2019 SC Humanities, $2000, University of South Carolina Beaufort 2019 RISE Grant, $5,805, University of South Carolina Beaufort 2019 Sea Island Institute Grant, $4,859, University of South Carolina Beaufort 2019 Students Connected Project – Barnwell Excavation, Community Foundation of the Lowcountry Grant, $5,200, University of South Carolina Beaufort 2018 By The River Budget, $30,000, SCETV 2018 Quality Enhancement Program Grant, $1,000, University of South Carolina Beaufort 2018 Faculty Development Travel Grant, $1,000, University of South Carolina Beaufort

Media Coverage and Interviews

2019 Hummell, Lynne Cope. Unique collaboration immerses students in TV show production. Bluffton Sun. 2019 Hunt, Dan. USCB students produce TV show. Bluffton Today 2018 Underwood, Tut. ETV to premier “By the River” Thursday, Sept. 13. South Carolina Public Radio. 2018 South Carolina Arts Commission. New SCETV show to feature South Carolina writers. The Hub 2018 Bounds-Jackson, Holly. SC Authors Featured on New Show. www.scetv.org 2018 Copeland, Ryan. How a beloved Lowcountry TV reporter found her way home to Beaufort. Island Packet. 2015 Martinez, Andrea. Caroline Sawyer pushes educational values into action. Courgar Chronicle.

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Caroline E. Sawyer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Communication Studies Communication Studies Program, Department of Social Sciences School of Humanities & Social Sciences University of South Carolina Beaufort Bluffton, SC 29910

Dear NEH Grant Committee,

I will be delighted to serve as a digital media collaborator on Professor Maraffi’s NEH Digital Projects for the Public “Discovery” grant proposal titled Exploring the Roots of Freedom: Augmented Reality Tour for Mitchelville South Carolina Gullah-Geechee Heritage Site.

The Mitchelville augmented reality tour project is an exciting opportunity to bring together humanities scholars and digital media researchers to collaborate on new methodologies for educating the public about the history and culture of an important site related to Reconstruction history and Gullah-Geechee culture. Employing spatial computing headsets like the Magic Leap One and game engine technology for immersing visitors in a historical scene that is both interactive and educational is on the cutting edge of digital media research, and has the potential to open up new experiential learning possibilities for historical sites and museums.

My background and expertise are in media production and transmedia storytelling production and research. I bring a wealth of experience producing media content for the humanities, having produced a state-wide public media television show that is funded by the South Carolina Humanities. Specifically, my background, expertise, and experience will enable me to contribute in the area of multi-platform and multi-media video content production for this project. Please see my bio and curriculum vitae for more details.

I enthusiastically support this research, and if funded by NEH, look forward to meeting with professor Maraffi to discuss the design and development of the video production for the augmented reality tour of Mitchelville.

Sincerely,

Caroline Sawyer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Communication Studies University of South Carolina Beaufort 843-208-8223 [email protected] Stephen D. Engle Curriculum Vitae

The Department of History Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Office AL155. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431 561-297-2444; email [email protected]

Professional Appointments Florida Atlantic University Professor of History/Director of the Alan B. and Charna Larkin Symposium on the American Presidency and the John O’Sullivan Memorial Lecture Series, 2011-present Director, University Master Teacher Program; and Faculty Learning Communities Program, 2018-present Executive Treasurer and Book Review Editor for The Society of Civil War Historians, 1992—present Historical Consultant to Capitola Le Noir proposed TV series Phantazo Films, currently

Department Chair–2002-2007 (22 faculty across 3 campuses) Florida Atlantic University. Responsible for securing $2 million Larkin Endowment which led to the establishment of The Alan B. and Charna Larkin Symposium on the American Presidency, and a $25,000 endowment for the named lectureship The John O’Sullivan Memorial Lecture, the artifact and book collection valued at $4 million which led to The Marvin and Sybil Weiner Spirit of American Collection in the Wimberly Library at FAU

Full Professor, Florida Atlantic University, 2000-present. Director of Graduate Programs, Department of History, Florida Atlantic University, 1996-2002. Associate Professor of History, Florida Atlantic University, 1996-1999. Martin Luther Universität Fulbright Scholar, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, 1995-1996. Florida Atlantic University Assistant Professor of History, Florida Atlantic University, 1990-1995. Florida State University Visiting Lecturer, Department of History, Florida State University, 1989-1990. Education Ph.D., American History, Florida State University, 1989: Major Field: 19th Century America Professional Honors: Barondess-Lincoln Award 2016; Honorable Mention Sally and Morris Lasky Award in Political History 2017; Finalist for the Emerging Civil War Book Award 2017 Smithsonian Associates Lecturer, Smithsonian Institution, 2007-2011, 2013-2017 Distinguished Teacher of the Year, 2016, Florida Atlantic University. Appointed Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians, 2004-2019. Featured by C-span’s American History TV, “Lectures in American History,” The American Civil War, June, 2013. Appointed to the Coalition for the Civil War Sesquicentennial, 2011-2015. Frank Klement Lecturer, Marquette University, Department of History, October 16, 2006. Florida Lecture Series Keynote Lecturer, Florida Southern College, January 25, 2007 Scholar-in-Residence, American Civil War Institute, Shepherd College, June 21-26, 2002 Professional Research Awards: Distinguished Lecture Series Faculty Research Award, Florida Atlantic University, 2017-2018; Virginia Center for Civil War Studies Research Grant, 2017; Andrew Mellon Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2016-2017; Life-Long Learning Research Travel Award, Jupiter LLS, Florida Atlantic University, 2016; Departmental Research Stipend, Department of History, Florida Atlantic University, 2016; Life-Long Learning Research Travel Award, Florida Atlantic University, 2014; Scholar of the Year (Professor Rank), Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, 2014-2015; Filson Fellow, The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky, 2009; Life-long Learning Fellowship, Florida Atlantic University, 2008-2009; University Research Grant, Florida Atlantic University, 2007; Gilder Lehrman Fellowship, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York, New York, 2003; Giles W. and Elise G. Mead Foundation Fellow, The Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens, Pasadena, California, 2002; Research Initiation Award, Division of Sponsored Research, Florida Atlantic University, 2001; Director's Research Fellowship, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, Minnesota, 2000; Mark Stevens Travel Fellowship, 2001, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin; Director's Fellowship 2000, Bentley Historical Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Phi Kappa Phi, National Honorary Society, inducted 2000; Director's Research Fellowship, Indiana Historical Society and State Archives, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1999; Researcher of the Year, (Associate Professor Rank), Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, 1999; James Haas Fellowship, 1992, United States Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania; Internal Foundation Research Grant, Division of Sponsored Research, Florida Atlantic University, 1992. Teaching Honors: Teacher of the Year, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, 2016; University Master Teacher, 2013-2015; University Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2012, Florida Atlantic University, Who’s Who Among America’s Best Teachers, Awarded by Who’s Who in America as Selected by the Best Students in America, 2004; Who's Who Among America's Best Teachers, Awarded by Who's Who in America as Selected by the Best Students in America, 2001; Distinguished Professor of the Year, "Outstanding Lecturer" Phi Alpha Theta, 2001, Florida Atlantic University; Distinguished Teacher of the Year, 2000, Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University; Recipient of the Teaching Incentive Program Award, 1993-1994, Florida Atlantic University; Distinguished Teacher of the Year, 1993, College of Liberal Arts, Florida Atlantic University; University Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1992, Florida Atlantic University. Publications: Books: Champion in Our of Need: John Albion Andrew and the Crossroads of Race and War new working book- length manuscript Gathering to Save a Nation: Abraham Lincoln and the Union’s War Governors. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. The War Worth Fighting: Abraham Lincoln’s Presidency and Civil War America, editor, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015. The American Civil War: Sumter to Appomattox, together with Gary Gallagher, Robert Krick, and Joseph Glatthaar, with forward by James McPherson, new edition of the 2003 book, Oxford, England, 2014. A Yankee Horseman in the Shenandoah Valley: The Civil War Letters of John H. Black. Edited together with David J. Coles, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2012. The American Civil War: This Mighty Scourge of War, together with Gary Gallagher, Robert Krick, and Joseph Glatthaar, Oxford, England: Osprey Publishing, Inc., 2003. Struggle for the Heartland: From Fort Henry to Corinth. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2001, History Book Club Selection. The American Civil War in the West, 1861-1863. Oxford, England: Osprey Publishing, Inc., 2001. Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. America's Civil War Series, edited by Gary W. Gallagher Yankee Dutchman: The Life of Franz Sigel. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1993, Reprinted and re-issued by Louisiana State University Press, 1999.

DOROTHY F. SCHMIDT COLLEGE OF ARTS AND LETTERS Department of History 777 Glades Road Boca Raton, FL 33431 tel: 561.297.3840 fax: 561.297.2704 www.fau.edu/history

15 April 2019

Christopher Maraffi Assist. Prof. of Multimedia Production, MFA, MSc. Media, Technology, and Entertainment MFA Program School of Communication & Multimedia Studies Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 33431

Dear Christopher:

I am happy to serve as a humanities advisor to the collaborative team you have assembled to develop an NEH Digital Projects for the Public grant submission for the project titled: Exploring the Roots of Freedom: Augmented Reality Tour for Mitchelville South Carolina Gullah-Geechee Heritage Site. As an American historian of the Civil war and Reconstruction Era, I am delighted by this collaboration about Mitchelville, the first Freedman’s town in the United States during the Civil War, a central feature of the Port Royal Experiment, and now a Gullah-Geechee heritage site on Hilton Head Island South Carolina. As I understand it, this project is to create an Augmented Reality (AR) tour application that will immerse site visitors in Mitchelville’s rich history and culture. Tourists will be able to literally follow in the footsteps of figures from history, picking up virtual 3D artifacts to examine, and interact with historical personalities like Harriet Tubman, General Mitchel, and Robert Smalls. Even better that the AR tour will feature Gullah-Geechee storytelling and dance performances to make the experience more culturally diverse and authentic for year-round visitors to the park. Moreover, I applaud the project director’s goal to present history as both educational and entertaining for visitors to a heritage site, while digitally preserving its cultural assets for future generations, and improving attendance so the tours become self-sustaining. In my own work, I attempt to redefine the meaning of Reconstruction by looking at the war as a process of reconstruction that commences with Fort Sumter. I have engaged in several projects that relate to the themes present in this project. My last book, Gathering to Save a Nation was a comprehensive analysis of how cooperative federalism in the Union functioned to weaken the Confederacy while strengthening nation-state relations. Much of this had to do with the liberation of southern slaves, which sometimes led to employing them as laborers and ultimately as soldiers. My recent work is a biography of John Albion Andrew, the Massachusetts governor who spearheaded efforts to liberate slaves and develop refugee camps where the Union armies could assist them in transitioning to freedom. Andrew was especially

interested in the Port Royal experiment and other similar efforts in the South, and sent Harriet Tubman to assist in these transformations. All this to say that my current research is well-suited to assist with this project through meetings next year to discuss the historical narrative.

Sincerely,

Stephen Engle

Stephen D. Engle Professor of History, [email protected] Director, History Symposium Series College of Arts and Letters Florida Atlantic University

J. Brent Morris [email protected] / JBRENTMORRIS.COM

•EDUCATION Ph.D 2010, Cornell University (United States / African American History) MA, 2008, Cornell University (United States History) BA, Magna Cum Laude, 2001, University of South Carolina (English and History)

•ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS University of South Carolina Beaufort, 2012 - 2016 • Associate Professor of History and Humanities Dept. Chair, 2016 - present • Assistant Professor of History, 2012-2016 University of South Carolina Aiken, 2010-2012 • Instructor of History, August 2011-2012 • Lecturer of History, August 2010-August 2011

•PUBLICATIONS BOOK MANUSCRIPTS • Yes Lord I Know the Road: A Documentary History of African Americans and South Carolina, 1526-2008 (University of South Carolina Press, 2017). • (editor) Virtue, Liberty, Science: A Legacy of Education in Beaufort County (Lowcountry Scholars Press, 2016). • (editor, with Minuette Floyd) The Untold Story: Visual Essays on America’s Reconstruction (Lowcountry Scholars Press, 2015). • Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism: College, Community, and the Fight for Freedom and Equality in Antebellum America. (University of North Carolina Press, 2014). Winner of the 2016 Henry Howe Book Award of the Ohio Genealogical Society • Dismal Freedom: The History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp (under contract, University of North Carolina Press). • (editor, with Vernon Burton) Reconstruction at 150: Reassessing America’s “New Birth of Freedom” (forthcoming 2019)

RECENT ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS • “‘Constructing Reconstruction: Race, Memory, and the Post-bellum Divide,” in Reconstruction at 150: Reassessing the Revolutionary New Birth of Freedom, ed. Burton and Morris (forthcoming 2019). • “‘I have at last found my ‘sphere’: The Unintentional Development of a Female Abolitionist Stronghold at Oberlin College,” in Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies, ed. Leslie Alexander, et al (University of Georgia Press, 2018). • “Divided by a Common Past: Issues that Divide,” in The Routledge Handbook of the American South, ed. Maggi Morehouse (Routledge, 2017). • “‘No peer in his race’: Robert Brown Elliott and the Radical Politics of Reconstruction Era South Carolina,” in Before Obama: A Reappraisal of Black Reconstruction Era Politicians, ed. Matthew Lynch (Routledge, 2012). • “‘All the truly wise or truly pious have one and the same end in view’: Oberlin, the West, and Abolitionist Schism,” Civil War History, Vol.LVII, No.3 (September 2011), 234-267. • “‘We are verily guilty concerning our brother’: The Abolitionist Transformation of

J. Brent Morris 1 South Carolina Planter William Henry Brisbane,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol.111, Nos.3-4 (July-Oct. 2010) [published 2011], 118-150. • “‘Running Servants and All Others’: The Diverse and Elusive Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp,” in Voices from Within the Veil: African Americans and the Experience of Democracy, ed. William Alexander, Cassandra Newby-Alexander, and Charles Ford (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008), 85-112.

BOOK REVIEWS • Twelve book reviews published in American Historical Review, The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Civil War History, The Journal of African American History, Southern Studies, H-Net Reviews, The Historian, Journal of Southern History.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES • Eight encyclopedia entries in The World of the Civil War: A Daily Life Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of Slavery in the Americas, and Encyclopedia of the Early Republic and Antebellum America.

•FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS • Over $900,000 in fellowships, grants, and awards from National Endowment for the Humanities, USC Research Initiative for Summer Engagement, Sea Islands Institute, USC Institute for African American Research, Association for Documentary Editing, South Carolina Historical Society, USC Institute for Southern Studies, Cornell University, Oberlin College

•CONFERENCE/COLLOQUIUM PRESENTATIONS • Thirty conference/colloquium presentations at Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, CLAW, Triangle African American History Colloquium, Southern American Studies Association, Palmetto Connections Symposium, South Carolina Historical Association, American Historical Association, American University Public Anthropology Conference, Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies, Emory University, Waterways to Freedom: The Underground Railroad Journey from Hampton Roads, Virginia, The Americas Colloquium, Federal Jamestown 400th Conference: Voices From Within the Veil, Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora

•RECENT DOCUMENTARY FILM PROJECTS • “The Inevitable Evolution of Fort Frederick,” produced by Koelker & Associates (2016). • “Fort Frederick History,” produced by SCDNR and Koelker & Associates (2014). • "Landscape of Power: Freedom and Slavery in the Great Dismal Swamp," produced by Nina Shapiro-Perl (2014). • “Dismal History: A History of Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia,” produced by Imtiaz Habib and Richard Green, Old Dominion University (2011).

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June 1, 2019 Christopher Maraffi Assist. Prof. of Multimedia Production, MFA, MSc. Media, Technology, and Entertainment MFA Program Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 33432

Dear NEH Grant Committee,

I am pleased and committed to serve as Humanities Advisor and in any other capacity as needed for the proposed NEH Digital Projects for the Public “Discovery” grant titled Exploring the Roots of Freedom: Augmented Reality Tour for Mitchelville South Carolina Gullah-Geechee Heritage Site. I believe that this is an exciting proposal, one which promises to bring the long-neglected story of America’s Reconstruction and the Mitchelville community to a wide audience.

The Mitchelville augmented reality tour project is an opportunity to bring together humanities scholars and digital media researchers to collaborate on new methodologies for educating the public about the history and culture of an important site related to Reconstruction history and Gullah-Geechee culture. Employing augmented reality technology for immersing visitors in a historical scene is an important area of digital humanities research that has great potential for promoting experiential learning of Reconstruction at historical sites and museums.

My research on the Civil War and Reconstruction Era history in Beaufort County will enable me to contribute much to the Mitchelville narrative. Besides serving on the Board of Directors of the Mitchelville Preservation Project, I currently serve as Associate Professor of History and Humanities Department Chair at the University of South Carolina Beaufort, Director of the new Institute for the Study of the Reconstruction Era at USCB, and direct an NEH summer institute for K12 teachers titled “America’s Reconstruction: The Untold Story.”

I look forward to contributing my time and expertise wherever it will be most powerfully felt in the advancement of this exceptional project. I am able to reach a limited audience of college students each day at USCB, and the reach of my published scholarship (unfortunately, as most academics will attest) may not be much wider. This proposed AR tour of Mitchelville has the potential to capture the interests and imaginations of a much broader audience, and its impact on the public’s understanding of an important period of American history and exceptional location which was a part of that story promises to be significant. I am pleased to be involved in such an important endeavor, and am committed to working for its success.

With sincere gratitude for your consideration, I am

J. Brent Morris, Ph.D. Department Chair, Humanities Associate Professor of History

One University Boulevard • Bluffton, South Carolina 29909 • (843) 208-8206 • [email protected]

VICTORIA A. SMALLS

.. Creative and knowledgeable public educator, arts advocate, and cultural

preservationist , who believes in building sustainable communities through strategic partnerships.

PENN CENTER, INC, St. Helena Island, SC PENN SCHOOL NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK DISTRICT April 2019—Current

Director of History, Art and Culture Program Development Director Assistant to Executive Director

ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT (ZINN), Washington, D.C. 2019-2019

Teach Reconstruction Campaign Organizer for South Carolina Promoted and supported the teaching of Reconstruction Era history to elementary fifth grade, middle and high school classrooms across South Carolina and Coastal Georgia.

o Promoted the #TeachReconstruction campaign and Make Reconstruction

History Visible project to teachers and administrators

o Identified key events and opportunities for outreach COMMISSION AND BOARD o Provided teacher and student support MEMBERSHIPS o Maintained a list of public historians, scholars and creatives with

expertise in Reconstruction Era history Federal Commissioner o Compiled list of Reconstruction Era Historical Sites in South Gullah Geechee Carolina, Georgia Cultural Heritage Corridor o Coordinated professional development opportunities for teachers o Presented at professional development workshops

State Commissioner INTERNATIONAL AFRCIAN AMERICAN MUSEUM (IAAM), Charleston, SC South Carolina African American TO BE BUILT 2021 Heritage Commission 2017—2018

Program Manager Board of Directors Organized, coordinated and supported essential functions for museum leadership Pat Conroy Literary Center and around IAAM’s Gullah Geechee content development. Developed and

coordinated the membership program and donor gifts.

Board of Directors o Developed and managed IAAM’s Charter Membership program Beaufort County o Coordinated membership launch and quarterly campaigns Black Chamber of Commerce . Mailings, email and social media campaigns . Outreach at community events and programs

South Carolina Notary Public o Managed the membership and donor platform on Blackbaud Commission Expires: 12/08/2020 o Reviewed and edited Gullah Geechee content for museum exhibitions o Developed and coordinated museum public programs o Gullah Geechee Culture o Bunce Island, Sierra Leone

PENN CENTER, INC, St. Helena Island, SC PENN SCHOOL NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK DISTRICT 2012—2017

Director of History, Art and Culture Served as the cultural, historical and creative diplomat for Penn Center and provided leadership, articulated positive impacts of history, art and culture to the public, to include informational and professional development for K-12 teachers, and strategic direction for the department.

o Director of the York W. Bailey Museum (YWBM) o Curated permanent and visiting exhibitions o Managed Penn Center’s archives, Penn School Papers, in collaboration with University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill’s Southern Historic Collection Department, and on site art collection o Presented history, art and culture outreach programs for public, civic organizations, universities and for regional and national K-12 schools and educators incorporating South Carolina Social Studies standards o Developed and implemented the Culture Keepers: Traditional and Contemporary Gullah Geechee Art Workshops for Youth 2015--2017 o Coordinated, planned, and managed the operations of the annual Heritage Days Celebration, a three-day festival to promote the history, art and culture of Penn School and the Gullah Geechee culture o Presented on Gullah Geechee artists and their art forms, Reconstruction Era, Civil Rights Movement and Gullah Geechee Culture at local and national conferences o Managed and presented institutes and symposia . Gullah Studies Symposia . Reconstruction Era Symposium . Penn Center Civil Rights Symposium . Site coordinator and presenter for the Gullah Voices National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Teacher Institutes in 2013, 2014, 2016, and 2017 PRESENTATION HIGHLIGHTS

o Panel Presenter, Praying, Singing and Catching Sense: Praise House Traditions in Gullah Geechee Communities, Inaugural Gullah Geechee and African Diaspora Conference, Coastal Carolina University, March 7, 2019 o Presenter, CNN’s United Shades of America, The Gullah Culture, May 2018 o Presenter and Site Coordinator, South Carolina: Rights to Ancestral Land; International Decade of People of African Descent (2015-2024), United Nations TV, 2015

EDUCATION ○ Health & Physical Education, South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, South Carolina ○ Early Childhood Education, University of South Carolina—Beaufort, South Carolina ○ Grant Writing Certification Program, Continuing and Professional Education, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina ○ Introduction to Grant Writing ○ Needs Based Assessment & Research

Najmah Thomas, Ph.D. www.najmahthomas.com 843-208-8339 (O); 843-441-0657 (M)

Education Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA Ph.D., Public Policy & Administration; Concentration: Urban Policy University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ MA, Adult Education and Distance Learning College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA B.A., Public Policy

Teaching Experience Assistant Professor, August 2014 – current Human Services Program Coordinator, August 2018 - current School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of South Carolina Beaufort

Teaching Areas: African American Studies, Human Services, Leadership Development, Nonprofit Management and Program Evaluation

Research Agenda: social and economic equity measurement, program evaluation practices, and evaluating the impact of historical and contemporary public policy on underrepresented populations, especially the Gullah/Geechee community

Research & Scholarship

Peer-reviewed Publications: Thomas, N. (2019, January) In Service of Social Equity: Leveraging the Experiences of African American Women Professors. Journal of Public Affairs Education. Thomas, N. (2018, December) An analysis of program evaluation course content in CSHSE– accredited human services baccalaureate programs. Studies in Educational Evaluation, 59, 187-194. Thomas, N., & Erdei, R. (2018, April) Stemming Stereotype Threat: Recruitment, Retention, and Degree Attainment in STEM Fields for Undergraduates from Underrepresented Backgrounds. Paper presented at 2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference, Crystal City, VA. Jarmulowicz, M., Cavanagh, K. & Thomas, N. (2015). Highlighting the History of Nursing. Care Magazine. Gooden, S., Martin, K. and Thomas, N. (2007). African American Women and Poverty: Undeserving for Over a Century. Journal of the Center for Research on African American Women, (2)1, 48 - 55.

Internal Publications: Thomas, N., Lamkin, R. and Glasson, J. (2018). University of South Carolina Human Services Program – Council for Standards in Human Services Education (CSHSE) Self Study Report. University of South Carolina Beaufort Social Sciences Department. Thomas, N., Lamkin, R. and Glasson, J. (2016). Human Services Program Evaluation Report. University of South Carolina Beaufort Social Sciences Department.

Thomas Vita, p. 1 Grants & Contracts Reconstructing Freedom: African American History Month at USCB 2019 – SC Humanities planning grant $2,000 (2018) USCB Sea Islands Institute (research grants) $2,500 (2015) & $5,000 (2018) University of South Carolina Institute for African American Research (2017 Fellow) $6,000 South Carolina Department of Social Services (foster care awareness, 2016) $135,850 US Department of Labor (workforce development, 2007 & 2008) $450,000 Virginia Department of Social Services (workforce development, 2004 – 2007) $660,000 The Cameron Foundation (research and development, 2006), $250,000 Virginia Department of Health and Human Services (capacity building, 2005), $25,000

Presentations & Workshops (2019) Promoting, Persevering and Prospering: How the Gullah/Geechee Community can Leverage a Living Monument. USC Institute for African American Research, Columbia, SC. (2018) Reconstructing Freedom: Penn Center, Inc. 36th Annual Heritage Days Symposium. Symposium convener and facilitator. St. Helena Island, SC. (2017) Stemming stereotype threat: recruitment, retention and related-careers in STEM fields for African American undergraduates. National Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) in Cincinnati, Ohio. (2017) Evaluation Implementation: Data Driven Decisions for Enhanced Program Results. Southern Organization for Human Services, Charleston, SC. (2017) African American History Month: Relevancy and Cross-Cultural Awareness on Campus. National Association of African American Studies & Affiliates, Dallas, TX. (2016) Panel Moderator: Race, Education, and Public Policy. Understanding and Celebrating Our Shared South Carolina Story. USCB African American History Month Series (2015) Culture of Care in the Lowcountry: Reflecting on the Past to Understand the Present and Shape the Future Nursing Workforce. (Research Poster) South Carolina Nurses Association Annual Conference, Greensville, SC (2015) The Impact of Public Policy on Education, Labor and Land Use in the Gullah Geechee/Culture. Eastern Kentucky University Honors Course, St. Helena Island, SC

Service to the Community Chairperson (2014-current) USCB African American History Month Planning Committee Faculty Advisor (2016 – current) USCB African American Student Association Board of Trustees Member (2016 – current) Penn Center, Inc., St. Helena Island, SC Board Member (2016-2018) Gullah Daughters of Purpose, Beaufort, SC Market Manager (2016 – 2018) St. Helena Island Community Market, St. Helena, SC Audit Committee Member (2016-2017) American Society for Public Administration Faculty Advisor (2015 – current) USCB Human Services Student Organization Internal Review Board Member (2012 – 2014) Virginia Department of Social Services, Richmond, VA

Professional Affiliations: American Society for Public Administration Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action Gullah/Geechee Sustainability Think Tank National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration Sisters of the Academy Southern Organization for Human Services

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May 15, 2019

Christopher Maraffi Assist. Prof. of Multimedia Production, MFA, MSc. Media, Technology, and Entertainment MFA Program School of Communication & Multimedia Studies Florida Atlantic University

Greetings Professor Maraffi,

I am pleased to submit this letter of support for the Exploring the Roots of Freedom: Augmented Reality Tour for Mitchelville South Carolina Gullah- Geechee Heritage Site. This project has the potential to educate, inform and inspire us all. I currently serve as the professor for African American Studies courses at USCB, and I offer my commitment to advise and support the project in this role.

Moreover, as a member of the Gullah/Geechee community and a participatory action researcher, I am encouraged by your plans to ensure that meaningful engagement with members of the local community is a priority during all phases of this project. I strongly believe incorporating a variety of perspectives, particularly from those voices which have been historically marginalized, will result in a wider and deeper understanding of this difficult and important topic.

Please feel free to contact me at 843-208-8339 or [email protected] if I can be of further assistance regarding this project.

Sincerely,

Najmah Thomas, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences

One University Boulevard ● Bluffton, South Carolina 29909 ● 843-208-8000 801 Carteret Street ● Beaufort, South Carolina 29920 ● 843-521-4100 ● Fax 843-521-4198

An Equal Opportunity Institution

Anita Singleton-Prather/Gullah Performer and Educator

KnowItAll Listing IMDB Listing Beaufort Lifestyle Magazine Article SCETV Article

Aunt Pearlie Sue is the creation of Anita Singleton-Prather, a native of the Sea Islands of Beaufort, South Carolina. Based on her grandmother, Aunt Pearlie Sue's character has entertained audiences with Gullah-flavored folktales for over 20 years from the schoolhouse to the White House.

In addition to being a renowned master storyteller, Prather is an educator, historian, business woman, writer, singer, actress and director/producer. She is the founder and artistic director of the musical performance group the Gullah Kinfolk. As a storyteller and singer, Prather has performed at many festivals: the Beaufort Gullah Festival, Penn Heritage Days Festival, Woodlands Festival, Spoleto USA International Arts Festival in Charleston, SC and San Francisco Festival of the Sea, just to name a few. She is also co-producer, writer and featured storyteller on Gullah CD’s and DVD’s. She has partnered with South Carolina Educational Television to create an award-winning interactive website on their children’s Knowitall.org/gullahnet that also features her animated character.

In addition to her participation in many SCETV educational documentaries, Prather wrote and co- produced, Tales from the Land of Gullah and Circle Unbroken Gullah Journey from Africa to America filmed with the nationally acclaimed Gullah Kinfolk. These have been broadcasted on PBS nationwide and is also the title of her award-winning DVD and a traveling museum exhibit created around her animated character. This 20,000 sq. ft. exhibit, originated at the nation’s top children’s museum, the Children’s Museum of Houston, Texas in 2007 and has been touring since throughout the United States and Canada. It was estimated, that over a million young people have been introduced to the Gullah culture through this interactive exhibit.

AWARDS

- Aesop Fables Award National Associations of Black Storytellers 2002 - South Carolina Jean Laney Folk Heritage Award 2014 - Preserving Our Place in History Award South Carolina African American Heritage Foundation 2014 - Rosalie Pazant Gullah Education Award 2012 - Brandyfoot Award 2012 - CIVITAS Tourism Award 2014 - Penn 1862 Circle 2016 - Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneurship Award 2014 - Emmanuel 9 Educational Support 2018

- Lands End Woodlands River Fest Community Service Award 2017 - South Carolina Women of Vision 2019

OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

- World Bank Performance; Washington DC - United Nations Performance September 2016 UN Headquarters New York City, New York - Arts Midwest Fest 10-week Tour - Villanova University Performance - The Connections Project Tour South Carolina (5-city tour) & Barbados, West Indies - Festival of the Sea; San Francisco - Black Hollywood; Los Angeles, CA - Jamerican; Kingston Jamaica - San Francisco Black Film Fest - Capital City Black Film Fest; Austin TX - Children's Museum of Houston 20,000 sq.ft. Interactive Gullah Exhibit 2007- present (Top 9 Children's museums in USA and Canada) - “Chicken Dinner Money” story listed on Top 10 Radio Chart - Award-winning SCETV Children's website: www.knowitall.org/gullahnet

MEMBERSHIPS & BOARDS

- Original Gullah Festival, VP - Beaufort County Accommodations Tax Board - ASCAP American Society of Composers, Authors - National Storytelling Network - National Association of Black Storytellers - Founder/ Chairperson Historic Beaufort SC Sea Island Holiday Celebration

OTHER INTERESTS & BUSINESSES

- Aunt Pearlie Sue & Singleton’s Catering - Not for Slim Only Plus-size Fashion Shows - Total Gullah ‘Perience Event Planning Consortium - Broadway in Da’ Backwoods Productions - ASE’-Gullah Education, LLC - Gullah Traveling Theater, Inc June 1st, 2019

Christopher Maraffi Assist. Prof. of Multimedia Production, MFA, MSc. Media, Technology, and Entertainment MFA Program School of Communication & Multimedia Studies Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 33432

Dear NEH Grant Committee,

I will be pleased to serve as a Gullah culture adviser on Professor Maraffi’s NEH Digital Projects for the Public “Discovery” grant proposal titled Exploring the Roots of Freedom: Augmented Reality Tour for Mitchelville South Carolina Gullah-Geechee Heritage Site.

My professional experience as Aunt Pearlie Sue at numerous Gullah festivals and events will enable me to be an adviser on all aspects of Gullah performance for this project. I was born and raised in Beaufort, SC. I am a former school teacher who continues to teach outside of the classroom. I am also a storyteller and I serve as the Curriculum Coordinator for the Education of Gullah Culture through the Arts in the Beaufort County School District. I hold a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Howard University and a master’s degree in education from the University of South Carolina. My Aunt Pearlie Sue character has entertained audiences with Gullah-flavored folktales for over 20 years from the schoolhouse to the White House. By adding performative elements like Gullah storytelling, music, and dance, the experience will be all the more authentic for a Gullah heritage site like Mitchelville.

The blending of all the cultures was brought here from West Africa (slavery) and then mixed with the Europeans. The entry point was through the coastline and most people came through Charleston. It remains so strong because we were isolated and a lot of the masters didn’t stay on the rice plantation because of malaria and yellow fever. You also couldn’t get to a lot of the areas because there was no bridge. Most of our people stayed on the island almost completely isolated. So our way of living remained intact most of the time because of the task system. When they finished their tasks for the day, they were free to practice the culture.

I happily support this research proposal, and if funded by NEH, look forward to meeting with professor Maraffi to discuss the Gullah storytelling and interactive performance aspects of the augmented reality tour for Mitchelville.

Sincerely,

Anita Singleton-Prather

Anita Singleton-Prather, “Aunt Pearlie Sue”, [email protected] Founder and Artistic Director of the Gullah Kinfolk Performers, Beaufort SC. Eric Sean Crawford Associate Professor

Curriculum Vitae

Coastal Carolina University (757) 332-6277 (cell) 100 Chanticleer Drive [email protected] (email) Conway, South Carolina 29528

Education:

• Ph.D., The Catholic University of America, January 2012 • B.A., M.M., Norfolk State University, May 1988, 1990

Areas of Research

• Gullah Geechee musical traditions and retentions • Southern sacred music of the African American Episcopal Church

Professional Experience / Employment History

• Coastal Carolina University Musicologist, Music Department 2014-present; Director, Joyner Institute for Gullah and African Diaspora Studies • Norfolk State University Coordinator of Master of Music Program, Music History, Music Theory, 2006-2014 • Minister of Music/Organist Bethel African American Episcopal Church, Britton’s Neck, SC (2014-current)

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

• Crawford, Eric. “The Penn School’s Educational Curriculum: Its Effects on the St. Helena’s Songs,” Journal of African American Studies 13 (September 2013): 347-369.

Chapter/Essay • Crawford, Eric. “Church Music in Black and White.” In Routledge Handbook of the American South, edited by Maggi Morehouse. New York: Routledge, 2017. • Crawford, Eric. “African American Spirituals,” In Heard at Every Turn: Traditional Music in South Carolina, edited by Saddler Taylor. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 2015.

Transcriptions

• To Live as Free Men. Negro spirituals recorded by John Silver. Saint Helena Island, SC: Castle Films, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, DC (2010)

Book/Dissertation/Compact Disc

• Low Tide: The Voice of Sandy Island, The Athenaeum Press at Coastal Carolina University (August 2017) • Dissertation, The Negro spiritual of Saint Helena Island: An Analysis of Its Repertoire during the Periods 1860-1920, 1921-1939, and 1972-present (January 2012) • Release of Gullah: The Voice of an Island CD and booklet, Athenaeum Press (2014)

Film and Television Appearances:

• Interview, “The National Archives Grant” WBTW Channel 13 News (2019) • Film Appearance “Charlie’s Place; A Musical History Worth Remembering” South Carolina Educational Television (2018) • Musical Director, Documentary Film, Gullah Gone: Preserving the Land, Water and Culture of the Sea Islands • Appearance “Repatriation of Lomax Murrells Inlet Recordings” South Carolina Educational Television (2019)

Professional Service

• Member Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Committee (2016-17) • Member, South Carolina Arts Alliance (2017) • Member-at-large College Music Society Mid-Atlantic Regional Chapter (2017) • Member, COHFA Quality Enhancement Planning Committee (2016)

Recent Lecturers

• Plenary Lecture, “The Dr. Watts Hymn Lining Tradition in the Lowcountry” The Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2019) • Lecture, “Gullah Geechee History and Culture” Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Festival in Wilmington (2019) • Lecture, “African American Cultural History in Brittons Neck, SC” Red Hill Missionary Baptist Church (2019) • Lecture, “Gullah Geechee Cultural History” Taste of Gullah Festival on Hilton Head Island (2019) • Lecture, “Joyner Institute for Gullah and Diaspora Studies” Sertomo Club, Conway, SC (2018)

Recent Performances

• Musical Performance, Voices of St. Helena Island Taste of Gullah Festival on Hilton Head Island (2019) • Musical Performances, Voices of St. Helena Island The Arts Center of Coastal Carolina (2019) • Musical Performance, Repatriation Event International Gullah Geechee and African Diaspora Conference (2019) • Shared Traditions: A Tribute to Charles Joyner, Pianist, Down By the Riverside (2017) • Performer, “Hope and Harmony” Concert, Columbia, SC (2016) • Performer, “Sacred Music of the South,” McKissick Museum, SC (2016) • Musical Director, Aunt Pearlie Sue and the Kinfolk stage show (2013-present) • Gullah: The Voice of an Island Singers, Gullah and Heritage Festivals (2014-current)

International/Regional Conferences

• Host, International Gullah Geechee and African Diaspora Conference (2019) https://www.coastal.edu/joynerinstitute/conference/ • Panel Discussion, “Gullah Geechee History and Activism in the Lowcountry and Heritage Corridor,” College of Charleston (2019) • College Music Society Mid-Atlantic Conference Host (2018) • Group Presentation, Sandy Island Project, Transforming Public History from Charleston to the Atlantic World, Charleston, SC (2017) • Speaker, Southern Regional Chapter of the American Studies Association Conference, William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA (2017) • Speaker, Lomax Repatriation of Georgia Sea Island Songs Symposium, College of Coastal Georgia, Brunswick, GA (2016) • Speaker, “Shared Tradition: Sacred Music in the South,” University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (2016) • Presenter, College Music Society Regional Conference, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC (2016) • Presenter, “The Voices of Gullah” in the Gullah Festival, Beaufort, SC (2015)

Grants • Access to Historical Records Grant Award $270,000 (2019) • National Park Service Civil Rights Grant award $104,798 (2017)

References

• Philip Powell, Music Department Chair, Coastal Carolina University (843-349-2515) [email protected] • Sam B. Dorsey, Coordinator Master of Music Program, Norfolk State University (757-823-8544) [email protected] • Andrew H. Weaver, Associate Professor, Head of Musicology, Catholic University of America [email protected]

Charles Joyner Institute for Gullah and African Diaspora Studies

June 9, 2019

Christopher Maraffi Assist. Prof. of Multimedia Production, MFA, MSc. Media, Technology, and Entertainment MFA Program School of Communication & Multimedia Studies Florida Atlantic University

Dear NEH Grant Committee,

I will be my pleasure to serve as a Humanities Advisor for the proposed NEH Digital Project entitled Exploring the Roots of Freedom: Augmented Reality Tour for Mitchelville South Carolina Gullah-Geechee Heritage Site.

The Mitchelville augmented reality tour project brings together leading humanities scholars and digital media researchers, who will collaborate on new methodologies that inform the public about important cultural and historical sites related to Reconstruction and Gullah-Geechee culture. Employing augmented reality technology as an immersive experience for visitors to historical sites is an important area of digital humanities research that has great potential for promoting experiential learning of Gullah Geechee culture at historical sites and museums.

As director of the Charles Joyner Institute for Gullah and African Diaspora Studies at Coastal Carolina University, I have seen firsthand the benefits of augmented reality technology with my 2018 project At Low Tide: The Voices of Sandy Island. It was my research team’s first use of this technology, but we were all amazed at its effectiveness in transmitting the uniqueness of the Gullah Geechee culture. Indeed, augmented reality may prove responsible for the preservation of this culture and its historic sites.

I enthusiastically support this research proposal, and if funded by NEH, look forward to meeting with professor Maraffi to discuss the Gullah Geechee music and culture to be included in the narrative and design of the augmented reality tour applications for Mitchelville.

Sincerely,

Eric Crawford, PhD. Associate Professor of Music Director of the Joyner Institute for Gullah and African Diaspora Studies Coastal Carolina University

• Project Title: Exploring the Roots of Freedom: Augmented Reality Tour for Mitchelville South Carolina Gullah-Geechee Heritage Site • Institution: Florida Atlantic University, College of Arts & Letters, School of Communication & Multimedia Studies. • Project Director: Christopher Maraffi, [email protected] • Grant Program: Digital Projects for the Public: Discovery Grants

Please see samples of my FAU Media, Technology, and Entertainment (MTEn) MFA Lab interactive media and animation projects at: https://tophermaraffi.com/2019/06/09/fau-mten-lab/

Also, here are some links to work samples of our Digital Media collaborators on this project: Magic Leap: https://www.magicleap.com/experiences Daruma Tech: https://www.darumatech.com/case- studies/ Ricardo Tobon: https://vimeo.com/ricardotobon/videos Demetrius Dukes: https://www.demetriusdukes.com/ Joey Bargsten: https://badmindtime.wordpress.com/ Arnav Jhala: https://www.visualnarrative.ncsu.edu/ Brian Canada: https://www.bugsnboohags.com/ Caroline Sawyer: https://www.scetv.org/local/etv- lowcountry