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Dorothy Jenkins Fields is a historian and archivist who was born and raised in Miami-Dade. She was one of the major actors in the preservation of the historical archives of Black Miami-Dade. Her outstanding work was recognized by numerous awards. In 2024, she was named a 2024-2025 Creative Futures Fellow by the University of Miami’s Center for Global Black Studies.

Dr. Fields obtained her BFA from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia in 1964 and received her Master’s degree from the University of Northern Colorado in 1974. In 1977, she founded The Black Archives History and Research Foundation of South Florida, Inc., a nonprofit manuscript and photographic archival repository to preserve the history of African-American communities in Miami. She also contributed to the organization of Miami-Dade’s Women’s Park. One of her greatest achievements, though, was leading the efforts against the demise of buildings in the historic area of Overtown, especially the Lyric Theatre.

She served as an educator for the Miami-Dade County Public Schools for four decades as well as for five years as a chair of Miami-Dade’s Historic Preservation Board. She is also part of the advisory board for the Haitian Heritage Museum and a board member of the Vizcaya Museum. She has two daughters, the attorney Katherine Fields Kpehyee Marsh and the Pulitzer-winner historian Edda Fields-Black.

–Vanessa Rodrigues Barcelos da Silva
Graduate Student Assistant for Manuscripts and Archives Management, Summer 2025

Sources:

(1) Black Archives Historic Lyric Theater Welcome Center Complex - https://www.miamidadearts.org/supporters-partners/black-archives-history-and-research-foundation-south-florida
(2) UM News - https://news.miami.edu/as/stories/2024/08/archival-work-with-deep-miami-roots.html

American anthropologist Henry Field studied in England, graduating from Oxford University in 1925. He worked as Assistant Curator of Physical Anthropology in the Field Museum of Natural History, and held the position of Curator, 1934-41. Field participated in several of the Museum's Near East expeditions.

In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Field to join his staff as anthropologist and personal advisor. Field became a member of the Special Intelligence Unit of the White House, and director of the "M" project, a study of world population, migration and settlement undertaken to provide data for shaping post-war relocation strategies. Henry Field eventually published the 666 studies following declassification of the files in 1960. He also wrote a history of his experiences, entitled The "M" Project and The Track of Man, Volume 2: The White House Years.

Throughout his career, Field participated in archaeological expeditions in Europe, Africa, Mongolia and southwest Asia. He also led expeditions to Europe, the North Arabian Desert, Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. He was a member of the University of California African Expedition (1947-48), and the Peabody Museum- Harvard Expedition to the Near East and Pakistan. In 1966 he joined the University of Miami faculty, and edited, wrote and published a number of anthropological studies through his "Field Research Reports."

Field, the recipient of many honors and awards, was a research fellow in physical anthropology at Harvard from 1950-69, and an honorary member of the Glasgow Archaeological Society. He also joined several foreign scientific societies and organizations in the United States and other countries. His publications include the following works on southwest: Useful Plants and Drugs of Iran and Iraq, The Anthropology of Iraq and Bibliographies on South West Asia I-VIII. He also published Contributions to the Anthropology of the Caucasus, The Track of Man, Arabian Desert Tales, Mongolia Diary and Mongolia Today, Trail Blazers and other works.

Steven Fett is a full-time lecturer at the University of Miami, School of Architecture. He received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Minnesota, and a Master of Architecture and Master of Urban Design at the University of Miami. Steven, a licensed architect, is the founder of his own architectural design and planning firm, Steven Fett Architecture. Located in downtown Miami, the firm has won a number of important awards including the Florida Redevelopment Association’s President's Award, and the American Public Works Association’s, “Public Works Project of the Year” for his built redesign of Commercial Boulevard in downtown Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Florida, a project he co-authored with fellow professor, Jaime Correa. Steven is a regular contributor to the School’s Open City Studio program, an itinerant urban laboratory that travels to international cities each summer.

Antonio Fernández Reboiro was born in Nuevitas, Camagüey, the son of Spanish immigrants Antonio Fernández de La Fuente and Julia Reboiro Vásquez. Between 1960 and 2003 he designed works for theater and music groups in Madrid as well as different groups all through Spain. His works are located in The Museum of Modern Art in New York; Musée de L’Affiche et la Publicité and the Centre National d’Art et de Culture George Pompidou in Paris; the National Gallery in London; the Museo del Cartel in Varsovia; the Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami; and the Museo Carlos Maside in Spain, along with many other museums all around the world.