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Universities Studying Slavery

The Universities Studying Slavery (USS) consortium, created and led by the University of Virginia, represents a multi-institutional collaboration focused in sharing best practices and guiding principles about truth-telling projects addressing human bondage and racism in institutional histories. Member schools are all committed to research, acknowledgment, and atonement regarding institutional ties to the slave trade, to enslavement on campus or abroad, and to enduring racism in school history and practice.

USS additionally allows participating institutions to work together as they address both historical and contemporary issues dealing with race and inequality in higher education and in university communities.  Together, the growing movement of schools committed to this work seek to address the complicated legacies of slavery in the modern world.

Member institutions also work together on developing ways for individual institutions to commit school resources to addressing equity in the twenty-first century.

Finally, USS hosts semi-annual meetings to discuss strategies, collaborate on research, and learn from one another. Please check this page for any updates on our next meetings. 

Current Member Institutions:

United States		Canada
Abilene Christian University	Queens University (North Carolina)	Dalhousie University (Canada)
Allegany College of Maryland (ACM)	Randolph-Macon College	McGill University (Canada)
Amherst College	Rice University	University of King’s College (Canada)
Appalachian State University	Roanoke College	University of New Brunswick (Canada)
Athens State University	Rutgers University Scarlet & Black Project
Bard College	Saint Louis University	Colombia
Brown University	Salem Academy and College	Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)
Bryn Mawr College	Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Centre College	Southern University Law Center	Ireland/ United Kingdom
The Citadel (South Carolina)	Southwestern University	University College Cork (Ireland)
Clemson University	Stillman College	Liverpool John Moores University (U.K.)
College of Charleston	Sweet Briar College	University of Aberdeen (U.K)
College of William & Mary	Texas Christian University	University of Bristol (U.K.)
Columbia University	Tougaloo College	University of Cambridge (U.K.)
Community College of Baltimore County	Towson University	University of Durham (United Kingdom)
Davidson College	Trinity College (Connecticut)	University of Manchester (United Kingdom)
Dickinson College	Trinity University (Texas)	University of Nottingham (U.K.)
Elon University	Tufts University	University of Warwick (UK)
Emory University	Tulane University
Francis Marion University	University of Cincinnati
Franklin & Marshall College	University of Delaware
Furman University	University of Georgia
Georgetown University	University of Maryland
George Mason University	University of Mississippi
Goucher College	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Guilford College	University of Pennsylvania
Hampden-Sydney College	University of Richmond
Hampton University	University of South Carolina
Harvard University	University of the South (Sewanee)
Hollins University	University of Virginia (PCSU)
James Madison University	Virginia Commonwealth University
John Jay College of Criminal Justice	Virginia Military Institute
Johns Hopkins University	Virginia State University
LaGrange College	Virginia Tech
Longwood University	Wake Forest University
Loomis Chaffee School	Washington & Lee University
Mercer University	Wesleyan College (Georgia)
Meredith College	Western Kentucky University
Morgan State University	Wofford College
Norfolk State University	Xavier University
Phillips Academy	Yale University
Princeton Theological Seminary

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