Curriculum and Resources

Prince Among Slaves has been screened and discussed in thousands of high school classrooms across the United States. UPF, in collaboration with a number of educational consultants have developed curriculum to accompany the use of the film in the classroom. These lesson plans seek to reach national state standards for American history, civics, and world history. In addition to the high school resources, UPF has also recently launched a _Prince Among Slaves: The Cultural Legacy of Enslaved Africans_ "website(http://www.princeamongslaves.org/)":http://www.princeamongslaves.org/, which has a plethora of additional resources for your classroom. This website features rich content expanding on three theme areas: identity, Muslims in early America, and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. The target audiences, African American youth, civic leaders, and American Muslims will be driven to this website, and to the events for online and offline engagement with humanities scholars and topics. *Content Development Team* *Dr. Sylviane Diouf* is an award-winning historian specializing in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, slavery, migrations, and the history of West African Muslims. She is the author of the acclaimed Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas (NYU Press) named Outstanding Academic Book. She is the author most recently of Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America. (Oxford University Press), which received awards from the American Historical Association, the Alabama Historical Association, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. She is the editor of Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies and the co-editor of In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience. A recipient of the Dr. Betty Shabazz Achievement Award, the Warith Deen Mohammed Award, the Pen and Brush Achievement Award, and the Rosa Parks Award, Dr. Diouf has appeared in several documentaries. She is a Curator at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library. *Dr. Lucinda Allen Mosher, TH.D.*, is a Christian ethicist with offices in NYC and NE Florida who works as a consultant, author, and educator on interreligious matters. Dr. Mosher is the author of Faith in the Neighborhood—a book series on America’s religious diversity; the response of The Episcopal Church to the pan-Muslim initiative, A Common Word; and articles and book-chapter on multi-faith issues, Christian-Muslim concerns, and the legacy of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi. A frequent lecturer in the US and abroad, Dr. Mosher is the founding instructor for the annual Worldviews Seminar at The University of Michigan-Dearborn—an innovative introduction to America’s religious diversity. *Barbara Petzen.* Educational and Website Consultant. Barbara Petzen was outreach coordinator at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, a Title VI National Resource Center charged with disseminating information on the Middle East and Islam to the K-12 community, media organizations, and the public. She has taught courses on Middle Eastern history, Islam and women's studies at Dalhousie University and St. Mary's University in Nova Scotia, Canada. She has also served as tutor and teaching assistant at Harvard University, where she will complete her doctoral dissertation in Middle Eastern history. She earned her BA in International Politics and Middle Eastern Studies at Columbia College and a second Honors BA in Oriental Studies as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. Her academic interests include Ottoman history, the history and present concerns of women in the Middle East and the Islamic world, the role of Islam in Middle Eastern and other societies, relations and perceptions between the Islamic world and the West, and the necessity for globalizing K-12 education in the United States. As outreach director at Harvard, Petzen was responsible for organizing and/or presenting an ever-increasing number of workshops on the Middle East and Islam to teachers and the general public - in 2006-7 alone, the Center held over 90 such workshops. *Jeremy Rehwaldt. Content Developer.* Jeremy is an associate professor of religion at Midland University in Fremont, Nebraska, where since 2002 he has taught courses in ethics, religion, sociology, and African American studies. His research analyzes the ways that Christian communities construct understandings of and responses to social problems, particularly with regard to race and ethnicity. Jeremy, who holds an MTS from Harvard Divinity School and PhD from Vanderbilt University, has also worked in the nonprofit sector as an editor, grant writer, and community organizer.