This proposed session focuses on pedagogical innovations involving the integration of the HistoryMakers’ Digital Archive into management courses. As the country’s largest African American video oral history collection, the HistoryMakers’ Archive richly documents the lived experiences of leaders and trailblazers across a wide variety of organizations and sectors. Integrating the HistoryMakers archive into management courses therefore provides students the opportunity to engage with the lived experiences of highly effective practitioners and African American voices. Both session facilitators participated in the HistoryMakers’ Faculty Innovations in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellowship. As part of the fellowship program, faculty members from across the country worked collaboratively with HistoryMakers staff to integrate the archive into class lectures and discussions, course activities, and assignments. The course redesigns and intensive training sessions ensured that the courses were both guided by and enhanced with African American voices. The facilitators have a wealth of lessons learned to share with other faculty members who want to design their courses in ways that center the voices and lived experiences of HistoryMakers. Participants in the proposed session will have the opportunity to reflect on the value of integrating African American and practitioner voices into their management courses, experience first-hand pedagogical approaches for doing so, and collaboratively ideate ways to enhance their management pedagogy using the HistoryMakers archive.
