Ariel Seay-Howard

Dr. Seay-Howard is an assistant professor of race, rhetoric, and communication, in the communication department at North Carolina State University. Seay Howard's primary focus is understanding the connection of memory, racial violence, and materiality. Seay-Howard's current research investigates the nation's remembrance of racial violence and how it has impacted African Americans' lived experience in the United States. She examines how new modes of commemoration, like lynching memorials, former slave plantations that are now museums, and documentary films, operate as counter-memories that help the public remember racial violence differently than the sanitized white narrative typically taught. In exploring these new approaches to remembering, Seay-Howard hopes to create a new paradigm for recalling this violent history and illuminating ways to transform how we discuss the past, present, and future.