Michigan Medicine is one of the University of Michigan’s oldest schools, educating future physicians since 1850.
But institutional narratives have often erased the experiences of Black medical students—particularly those from its early years. CREATE Center postdoctoral research fellow Tonya Kneff-Chang will reveal how power has influenced the making and remaking of these historical accounts over time and explore through a series of walking tours she’s developed how those hidden stories are embedded in everyday spaces and how past struggles over race, class, and gender continue to influence U-M’s campus.