The Summersell Center is proud to announce that undergraduate Brie Smiley has been accepted into the Moore Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (MURAP) at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.

MURAP is a program that targets underrepresented and minority undergraduate students who are interested in careers in academia. The program chooses twenty rising juniors and seniors every year, focusing on humanities students, to attend a ten week intensive research program. The application process is rigorous, but because of Brie’s research background through programs within the Summersell Center, including the recent course on Pickens County lynchings with SCSS Director Dr. John Giggie she was well prepared not only for her application, but also for this opportunity.

Brie plans to research slave revolts, potentially in the U.S. as well as Latin America and the continental interior of Africa. She hopes to be a professor of either Africana Studies or history with a specialization in Africana. We are so proud of Brie, and we can’t wait to see her research through MURAP and beyond!