Joyce-Zoe Farley

Joyce-Zoe Farley is the visiting assistant professor of Public History and African American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is also the internship director for both the UAB History Department and the African American Studies Program. Dr. Farley’s research on urban insurrection of the 20th century, with the catalyst being Detroit 1967, uses oral history to tell a counternarrative to the many metanarratives about urban rebellion and the city, explicitly the troupes and ideas of Black agency, performance, trauma, resistance, and survival. Her nontraditional dissertation and documentary film on the subject “In Absentia: The Lost Ones of America’s/Motown’s Revolution(s)” is a protest film and has been used in classrooms; it was featured in the 313 Africatown Film Festival and the Detroit Black Film Festival. Her varied portfolio in public history centered in the Black experience includes documentary filmmaking, an online photo exhibit and e-book, and website development and management.