Reimagining the Lives of Black Soldiers Wives and Widows in Post-Civil War America
My book project, Her Claim for Pension is Lawful and Just, chronicles struggles of black women seeking benefits from the United States
A (Re)Energizing Pedagogical Approach: Engaging Digital Tools to Teach African American Literature
As an AADHum Scholar, one of my goals is to strengthen the connection between my research and teaching of 20th and 21st
Beyond Preservation: A Digital Intervention Into Theatre & Performance Studies
When New York University established the first Performance Studies department in 1980 and, subsequently, incorporated the discipline into theatre departments, it caused
“Huddles” and Hurdles: A Feminist Scholar’s Introduction to Black DH”
It seems that everyone has a different opinion about the “right way” to “do” feminism. The argument about “what constitutes feminism” is
Understanding More by Seeing More: Reflections on Digitizing the AFL-CIO Archive
How can the turn to the digital transform the archive into an active platform for creating, preserving, and transmitting knowledge? This
Hip Hop Archives: How Academia Preserves Rap Music’s Legacy
AADHum’s final digital humanities incubator session last semester, entitled “Representing Movement”, explored how we can use GIS to document travel and
Of the Meaning of Progress: Digital Studies as Radical Praxis
Recently much of my heart, energy, and time have been consumed by the madness unleashed by white supremacist rally in Charlottesville,
Confronting “the Witness”: Encoding Archives of Black Lives
As a rhetorician, I am trained to analyze public discourse and the history of ideas. My critiques focus on “progressive” ideas—like
Civil Rights and Worker Rights: Digitizing Labor Archives
Throughout the Spring 2017 semester, AADHum has been working to explore, digitize, and make accessible portions of the George Meany Memorial AFL-CIO
Answering the Call for Scholarship on Black Lives
By providing resources and training in digital tools, AADHum seeks to support participants—in all stages of scholarly development—in their research at the intersections