Classics and Students of Colour, with Andi Burton Marsh

15/11/2021 36 min
Classics and Students of Colour, with Andi Burton Marsh

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Episode Synopsis

Is Classics outreach working? Does it meet the concerns of students once they’re at university? Shivaike Shah speaks with Andi Marsh, recent University of Oxford graduate, about her experiences studying Classics as a state-educated Black woman. They discuss how Andi founded the Christian Cole Society to build a community of Classics students of colour and amplify the voices and histories of BIPOC people from the ancient world, as well as within academia; how crucial curriculum reform is for outreach; and how she found working with (and sometimes against) the Oxford Classics Faculty to decolonise Oxford Classics. Heavily involved in access and outreach initiatives as an undergraduate, Andi now works in widening the participation of disproportionately underrepresented students in top UK universities.To find out more about this topic, check out the reading list on our website: https://www.khameleonproductions.org/medeas-performance-history