AADHum – African American History, Culture & Digital Humanities https://aadhum.umd.edu Fri, 10 May 2019 19:49:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.1 Join the AADHum Team as Our New Assistant Director https://aadhum.umd.edu/2019/05/join-the-aadhum-team-as-our-new-assistant-director/ https://aadhum.umd.edu/2019/05/join-the-aadhum-team-as-our-new-assistant-director/#respond Fri, 10 May 2019 13:29:37 +0000 https://aadhum.umd.edu/?p=2941 Assistant Director, African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities (AADHum) Initiative The African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities (AADHum) Initiative at the University of Maryland is seeking a new colleague who shares our commitment to creating a space for intersectional digital humanities scholarship attuned to Black studies in order to help us build on

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]]> https://aadhum.umd.edu/2019/05/join-the-aadhum-team-as-our-new-assistant-director/feed/ 0 Making the Digital Physical: AADHum’s “Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black” Conference https://aadhum.umd.edu/2018/10/stringfield-making-digital-physical/ https://aadhum.umd.edu/2018/10/stringfield-making-digital-physical/#respond Wed, 31 Oct 2018 16:03:33 +0000 https://aadhum.umd.edu/?p=2771 The following post has been reprinted with permission from the author, Ravynn K. Stringfield, from Black Girl Does Grad School. To view in its original form, please click here.  Following the opening session of University of Maryland’s African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities’ (AADHum) “Intentionally Digital,

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]]> https://aadhum.umd.edu/2018/10/stringfield-making-digital-physical/feed/ 0 UMD Remembers Ira Berlin, “Influential Historian of Slavery” https://aadhum.umd.edu/2018/06/umd-remembers-ira-berlin/ https://aadhum.umd.edu/2018/06/umd-remembers-ira-berlin/#respond Mon, 25 Jun 2018 23:24:50 +0000 https://aadhum.umd.edu/?p=2495 Reposted with permission from the College of Arts and Humanities. Ira Berlin, the influential historian, AADHum advisory board member, and distinguished university professor at the University of Maryland (UMD) known for his scholarship on the history of slavery in early America and the United States, passed away at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C.

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]]> https://aadhum.umd.edu/2018/06/umd-remembers-ira-berlin/feed/ 0 “Huddles” and Hurdles: A Feminist Scholar’s Introduction to Black DH” https://aadhum.umd.edu/2018/02/huddles-hurdles/ https://aadhum.umd.edu/2018/02/huddles-hurdles/#respond Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:42:18 +0000 http://aadhum.umd.edu/?p=2387 It seems that everyone has a different opinion about the “right way” to “do” feminism. The argument about “what constitutes feminism” is being taken up everywhere and by everyone—from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary to Emma Watson. Rather than untangling these arguments here, I propose that these conflicting opinions indicate that we all can and should be

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]]> https://aadhum.umd.edu/2018/02/huddles-hurdles/feed/ 0 Understanding More by Seeing More: Reflections on Digitizing the AFL-CIO Archive https://aadhum.umd.edu/2018/01/digitizing-afl-cio-archive/ https://aadhum.umd.edu/2018/01/digitizing-afl-cio-archive/#respond Mon, 29 Jan 2018 17:29:59 +0000 http://aadhum.umd.edu/?p=2338 How can the turn to the digital transform the archive into an active platform for creating, preserving, and transmitting knowledge? This is the question at the center of my research - and why the George Meany Memorial Archives records on Civil Rights in the US fascinate me. They help me see how archives can

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]]> https://aadhum.umd.edu/2018/01/digitizing-afl-cio-archive/feed/ 0 Civil Rights and Worker Rights: Digitizing Labor Archives https://aadhum.umd.edu/2017/05/digitizing-labor-archives/ https://aadhum.umd.edu/2017/05/digitizing-labor-archives/#respond Tue, 02 May 2017 13:00:02 +0000 http://aadhum.umd.edu/?p=1880 Throughout the Spring 2017 semester, AADHum has been working to explore, digitize, and make accessible portions of the George Meany Memorial AFL-CIO archives, housed in the University of Maryland's Special Collections. Guided by a thematic focus on black labor, migration, and artistic expression, Graduate Assistant William Thomas reflects on his experiences, as well as the potential

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]]> https://aadhum.umd.edu/2017/05/digitizing-labor-archives/feed/ 0 Answering the Call for Scholarship on Black Lives https://aadhum.umd.edu/2017/04/answering-the-call/ https://aadhum.umd.edu/2017/04/answering-the-call/#respond Thu, 06 Apr 2017 13:49:50 +0000 http://aadhum.umd.edu/?p=1723 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 of African American history, culture, and digital humanities. As a doctoral student in the Sociology Department at the University of Maryland, College Park, AADHum Graduate Assistant Melissa Brown considers how the AADHum initiative is already enriching

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]]> https://aadhum.umd.edu/2017/04/answering-the-call/feed/ 0 Registration Now Open for STS Annual Conference, “Textual Embodiments” https://aadhum.umd.edu/2017/04/registration-now-open-sts-annual-conference-textual-embodiments/ https://aadhum.umd.edu/2017/04/registration-now-open-sts-annual-conference-textual-embodiments/#respond Thu, 06 Apr 2017 13:46:02 +0000 http://aadhum.umd.edu/?p=1740 Together with MITH and the Society for Textual Scholarship (STS), AADHum is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2017 STS International Interdisciplinary Conference, Textual Embodiments. The conference will engage a range of issues involving the materiality of texts, including their physical, virtual, and performative manifestations as objects that can decay or break down

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]]> https://aadhum.umd.edu/2017/04/registration-now-open-sts-annual-conference-textual-embodiments/feed/ 0 Of Wake Work and We Who Would Build: Centralizing Blackness in Digital Work https://aadhum.umd.edu/2017/02/centralizing-blackness-digital-work/ https://aadhum.umd.edu/2017/02/centralizing-blackness-digital-work/#respond Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:09:41 +0000 http://aadhum.umd.edu/?p=1653 When I began researching African Americans online seven years ago, the bulk of literature situated black users of online technology as mostly absent, lacking access, and in need of interventions to develop proficiency. This literature was very different than my experience with the robust black online communities I knew whose use of the digital was

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]]> https://aadhum.umd.edu/2017/02/centralizing-blackness-digital-work/feed/ 0 $1.25 Million Mellon Grant Awarded to UMD Arts and Humanities College https://aadhum.umd.edu/2015/07/1-25-million-mellon-grant-awarded-umd-arts-humanities-college/ https://aadhum.umd.edu/2015/07/1-25-million-mellon-grant-awarded-umd-arts-humanities-college/#respond Wed, 15 Jul 2015 15:15:17 +0000 http://mith.umd.edu/aadhum/?p=1635 UMD to help transform the future of digital scholarship and research on African American history and culture.

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