Episode 23: Allison Mitchell and Her Presentation at the 10th Annual Jerrell H. Shofner Lecture Series on Florida History and Culture, and Her Experiences as a History Graduate Student

The Department of History’s Sebastian Garcia talked with Allison Mitchell, a PhD Candidate at the University of Virginia and a Dissertation Fellow at Emory University’s James Weldon Johnson Institute. Mitchell was this year’s presenter at the Jerrell H. Shofner Lecture Series on Florida History and Culture with her presentation being titled, From Protest to Politics: Reconsidering the Impact of The Congress of Racial Equality’s Voter Registration Campaigns in Florida. Sebastian first talked with Mitchell about this presentation which examined the Voter Education Project campaigns orchestrated by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in Florida between 1962 and 1965. Then, they transitioned the conversation into Mitchell’s participation in day 2 of the 2022 FHS Annual Symposium event—specifically being a part of Session 7, Panel 14 titled, “Round Table on Graduate Education and the Future of History”. This naturally led to the broader conversation in this part of the podcast to be about Mitchell’s experiences as a current history graduate student.