In celebration of Black History Month, Nubian Message is highlighting Black professors at NC State in our new series called Blackademics. For this feature we have Dr. Ariel Seay-Howard. Stay tuned to hear from more professors 💚 Dr. Ariel E. Seay-Howard is an assistant professor of race, rhetoric, and communication in the communication department at North Carolina State University. She studies how the public remembers slavery and racial violence through memory spaces and material objects. Her research agenda is motivated by the desire to understand how racial violence has and continues to impact the African American community. Her current research also investigates the nation’s remembrance of racial violence and how it has impacted African Americans’ experiences in the U.S. She examines how new modes of commemoration, lynching memorials, former slave plantations, now museums and documentary films operate as counter-memories that help the public remember racial violence differently tha...