{"id":6291,"date":"2024-01-04T18:27:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T18:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nhd.org\/?post_type=team&#038;p=6291"},"modified":"2024-01-09T18:15:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T18:15:57","slug":"patricia-akhimie","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/nhd.org\/en\/team\/patricia-akhimie\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Akhimie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"appear-on-scroll\"><strong>Where do you currently live?<\/strong><br>Washington DC<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"appear-on-scroll\"><strong>What is your current occupation?<\/strong><br>Director of the Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"appear-on-scroll\"><strong>What school did you attend while participating in NHD?<\/strong><br>Cloonan Middle School, Stamford, CT<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"appear-on-scroll\"><strong>What college did you attend?<\/strong><br>Princeton University (BA, 2000), University of Michigan (MFA, 2002), Columbia University (MA 2003, Phil 2005, PhD, 2011)<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"appear-on-scroll\"><strong>Who were your teachers?<\/strong><br>My English teacher was our National History Day teacher.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"appear-on-scroll\"><strong>What years and in what category did you participate in NHD?<\/strong><br>Individual Exhibit titled: European Impact on the Art of Benin: A Cultural Encounter in 1992<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"appear-on-scroll\"><strong>What are a few of your favorite or defining moments from your NHD experience?<\/strong><br>I created a project about cross-cultural contact between West Africans and Europeans in the Renaissance. My father is from Nigeria and I focused on that region (known as the Kingdom of Benin in the early modern period) for my research. I remember going to New York City with my parents to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to get a first hand look at the ivory and bronze sculptures there and feeling that I was learning about the past and about my own family&#8217;s history at the same time. I arranged an interview with a curator of the exhibits and enjoyed talking with her about the works I had been researching. I was so excited, during the competition, to share my insights and my sources (like the interview) with the judges. When my name was called when the finalists were announced I was so surprised and so proud that the work I did was being recognized in that way. I remember jumping up with a huge smile and looking back at my parents as I headed to the stage.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"appear-on-scroll\"><strong>How did NHD help you after high school?<\/strong><br>I certainly trace my interest in research in the humanities back to my NHD experience. I learned something very important: what I research is as much about learning who I am and how I want the world to change as it is about learning about others and about how the world has been in the past.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"appear-on-scroll\"><strong>What recognition did you receive for participating in NHD?<\/strong><br>I won first place in Connecticut and went on to the national competition.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"appear-on-scroll\"><strong>Did you do anything with your NHD project or research after the contest year?<\/strong><br>I returned to my research on cross-cultural exchange between Europe and Africa during the Renaissance (early modern period) as a graduate student. I wrote a Master&#8217;s thesis in which I used some of the same primary sources and images of Afro-Portuguese objects and went on to study the broader topic of concept of race in the early modern period in English literature for my doctoral dissertation. As a professor I wrote my first book&#8211;Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference (forthcoming from Routledge)&#8211;about race and other forms of difference in Shakespeare.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"appear-on-scroll\"><strong>What has kept you busy since your days as an NHD student? Any particular challenges, stories, or achievements?<\/strong><br>I am now a Professor of English Literature, a scholar of race in the early modern period, and a mother. 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I learned that I take delight in research, and that researching is one way I can learn about history and about myself at the same time.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where do you currently live?Washington DC What is your current occupation?Director of the Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library What school did you attend while participating in NHD?Cloonan Middle &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6328,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"featured_image_background_position":"44% 40%","team_title":"<i>NHD 1992 <\/i>","email":"","posts_contributor":"","footnotes":""},"team-type":[132],"class_list":["post-6291","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","team-type-alumni-profiles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Patricia Akhimie - National History Day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nhd.org\/en\/team\/patricia-akhimie\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Patricia Akhimie - 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