Transformational Intersections
As an extension of AADHum’s 2017-2018 Conversation Series, “Transformational Intersections: Digital and Public Humanities” explores how the digital humanities create, perceive,
Making the Digital Physical: AADHum’s “Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black” Conference
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Toward A Deeper Understanding of Digital Humanities Research in Black Studies
Fresh off the completion of a bachelor’s degree in African American Studies, I was introduced to the intersection of Black Studies and
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
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
Of Wake Work and We Who Would Build: Centralizing Blackness in Digital Work
When I began researching African Americans online seven years ago, the bulk of literature situated black users of online technology as mostly