{"id":2679,"date":"2018-09-25T12:11:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T16:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aadhum.umd.edu\/?page_id=2679"},"modified":"2019-12-16T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T21:02:00","slug":"2017-2018","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aadhum.umd.edu\/scholars\/2017-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"AADHum Scholars: 2017\u20132018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep fusion-clearfix\" style=\"float:left;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:15px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#87434c;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><h1 class=\"title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;\">AADHum Scholars: Inaugural Class, 2017-2018<\/h1><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep fusion-clearfix\" style=\"float:left;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:30px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#87434c;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:20px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>After reviewing an impressive and competitive pool of applications, the AADHum leadership team is proud to announce our 2017\u20132018 AADHum Scholars! Spanning disciplines, career stages, and institutional affiliations, the 6 scholars that comprise our first cohort of AADHum Scholars are:<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#d6d6d6;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-3 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first\" style=\"width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p><strong>Hazim Abdullah-Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><p>Ph.D. student, Department of American Studies, UMD College Park<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#8a494a;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-4\"><p><em>Read Hazim&#8217;s blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/aadhum.umd.edu\/2018\/05\/toward-a-deeper-understanding\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-4 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-two-third fusion-column-last\" style=\"width:66.666666666667%;width:calc(66.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.66666666666667 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-5\"><p>Hazim Abdullah is a second-year Ph.D. student in American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research broadly concerns the ways Black cultural production documents the relationship between Black life, space and identity formation. An overarching question he asks is, <em>how do space and place inform Black queer identities?<\/em> He brings together Black queer studies, cultural geography, digital humanist methods and pieces of Black queer expressive culture\u2014like Barry Jenkins\u2019 <em>Moonlight\u2014<\/em>to theorize a Black queer sense of place. Hazim is also earning a certificate in <a href=\"http:\/\/dsah.umd.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Digital Studies in the Arts and Humanities<\/a>. He earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in African American Studies and a certificate in Civic Engagement from Northwestern University.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-5 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#d6d6d6;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-6 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first\" style=\"width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-6\"><p><strong>Richard Bell, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-7\"><p>Assistant Professor, Department of History, UMD College Park<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#8a494a;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-8\"><p><em>Read Richard&#8217;s blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/aadhum.umd.edu\/2018\/06\/sharing-the-lost-boys\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-7 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-two-third fusion-column-last\" style=\"width:66.666666666667%;width:calc(66.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.66666666666667 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-9\"><p>Richard Bell is an Associate Professor of History at UMCP specializing in African American\u00a0history and culture, and will use this opportunity to build a set of digital products\u00a0(eg. GIS maps, a digital image database, a project website) to support his current\u00a0research and writing project. That book, <em>The Lost Boys: A Story of Slavery and Justice<\/em>\u00a0<em>on the Reverse Underground Railroad<\/em>, is to be published by Simon &amp; Schuster in Spring 2019. It tells the little-known story of the miraculous escape of four free\u00a0black children from the clutches of post-revolutionary America\u2019s most fearsome\u00a0gang of kidnappers and enslavers.\u00a0<em>The Lost Boys<\/em> offers a revisionist account of the role of kidnapping in the domestic\u00a0slave trade in the decades immediately following the American Revolution. It\u00a0situates black persons at the center of analysis, up-ends simple racial and gender\u00a0dichotomies, and argues that the kidnapping of free black people into slavery in this\u00a0critical period was vastly more frequent, pernicious, and politically significant than\u00a0we have previously supposed.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bell is new to the field of digital humanities and will use this opportunity to learn\u00a0more about the possibilities that digital humanities tools can offer to illuminate,\u00a0complicate, and disseminate historical scholarship. He hopes that these possibilities\u00a0might include the capability to make GIS-supported maps of key locales in\u00a0Philadelphia, Delmarva, the Upper South, and early Mississippi. Dr. Bell also hopes to use\u00a0digital tools to create an online repository and display platform for relevant images\u00a0(woodcuts, historical maps, cartoons etc) and to construct a website that can\u00a0support the book project, and present visitors with additional resources.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-8 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#d6d6d6;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-9 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first\" style=\"width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-10\"><p><strong>Brandi Brimmer, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-11\"><p>Assistant Professor, Department of History and Geography, Morgan State University<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#8a494a;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-12\"><p><em>Read Brandi&#8217;s blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/aadhum.umd.edu\/2018\/04\/reimagining-the-lives-of-black-soldiers-wives-and-widows-in-post-civil-war-america\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-10 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-two-third fusion-column-last\" style=\"width:66.666666666667%;width:calc(66.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.66666666666667 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-13\"><p>Brandi Brimmer is a historian of the United States with particular interests in the history of\u00a0women and gender, African American political culture, and the long-term impact of slavery and\u00a0racism in shaping gendered constructions of citizenship, welfare, and forms of political activism.\u00a0Brimmer has studied these questions through a close analysis of black women\u2019s relationship to\u00a0the law and governmental institutions in the post-emancipation South. She completed her Ph.D.\u00a0in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles and worked as an\u00a0assistant editor at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedmen.umd.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Freedmen and Southern Society Project<\/a> at the University of Maryland,\u00a0College Park. In 2014, Brimmer joined the faculty at Morgan State University, where she\u00a0teaches course in African-American, African-American women\u2019s, and United States history in\u00a0the Department of History and Geography.<\/p>\n<p>Brimmer has received numerous awards and fellowships for her research. These include research\u00a0grants from the Office of the Provost at Morgan State, the Institute of American Cultures at\u00a0UCLA, an Archie K. Miller Fellowship from the North Caroliniana Society, a Mary Lily\u00a0research grant from the Sallie Bingham Research Center at Duke University, and postdoctoral\u00a0fellowships from the Ford Foundation and Case Western University. Her articles have recently\u00a0appeared in the <em>Journal of the Civil War Era<\/em> and the<em> Journal of Southern History<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-11 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#d6d6d6;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-12 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first\" style=\"width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-14\"><p><strong>Alyson Farzad-Phillips<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-15\"><p>Ph.D. student, Department of Communication, UMD College Park<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#8a494a;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-16\"><p><em>Read Alyson&#8217;s blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/aadhum.umd.edu\/2018\/02\/huddles-hurdles\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-13 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-two-third fusion-column-last\" style=\"width:66.666666666667%;width:calc(66.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.66666666666667 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-17\"><p>Alyson Farzad-Phillips is a second-year PhD student in the Department of Communication. She studies rhetoric and political culture, and she is especially interested in examining the rhetoric of place and protest. Alyson\u2019s scholarship typically analyzes the ways in which space and rhetoric are strategically utilized during social movement organizing.<\/p>\n<p>As an AADHum Scholar, Alyson utilizes digital mapping techniques to create counter-maps that serve as rhetorical artifacts for analysis. Her project, <em>\u201cHuddles or Hurdles? Racial and Economic Barriers to Collective Gathering in the Aftermath of the Women\u2019s March\u201d<\/em> examines the Women\u2019s March \u201cHuddles\u201d initiative to interrogate the use of space by our contemporary feminist movement. The project currently looks at the distribution of Washington D.C. based \u201cHuddle\u201d events to determine how access to coalition-designated places for feminist minded people played out over the spatial arrangement of the nation&#8217;s capital. The digital counter-map provides rhetorical evidence that feminist movements in 2017 have already indicated patterns of racial and economic exclusion in the ways that they have collectively organized and gathered.<\/p>\n<p>When not writing, reading, and participating in both the AADHum and Communication scholarly communities, Alyson spends her time teaching public speaking for her department. She is currently developing a service-learning course-section of COMM 107 as part of the Oral Communication Program, and she hopes to continue strengthening her service-learning pedagogy during her time with the University of Maryland.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-14 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#d6d6d6;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-15 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first\" style=\"width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-18\"><p><strong>Leticia Ridley<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-19\"><p>Ph.D. student, Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, UMD College Park<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#8a494a;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-20\"><p><em>Read Leticia&#8217;s blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/aadhum.umd.edu\/2018\/03\/digital-intervention-into-theatre\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-16 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-two-third fusion-column-last\" style=\"width:66.666666666667%;width:calc(66.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.66666666666667 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-21\"><p>Leticia Ridley is a Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellow and a first-year doctoral student in the\u00a0Theatre and Performance Studies Program at the University of Maryland. She is a scholar,\u00a0playwright, and dramaturg whose research interests include Black Theatre and Performance,\u00a0American Popular Culture, and Black Feminism. Broadly, Leticia\u2019s research focuses on African\u00a0American representation and performance in theatre and popular culture, with particular attention\u00a0paid to the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality.<\/p>\n<p>Leticia\u2019s current digital project employs a Black Feminist methodology that focuses on how\u00a0musical artist Beyonc\u00e9 Knowles-Carter, television showrunner Shonda Rhimes, and tennis\u00a0superstar Serena Williams activate dialogue and theorization in digital spaces by everyday Black\u00a0women. In her current research project, Leticia conceives of the digital as a place of encounter\u00a0between Black women who utilize it as a site of performance, a location of resistance, and a\u00a0place where Black radical joy manifests. Leticia\u2019s dissertation project will underscore how these\u00a0women cannot be \u201cwritten off\u201d as mere entertainers, but rather it will highlight how their work\u00a0must be recognized as contributing to the agency and self-defining expressions for and by Black\u00a0women in America.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-17 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#d6d6d6;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-18 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first\" style=\"width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-22\"><p><strong>Tyechia Thompson, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-23\"><p>Lecturer, Department of English, Howard University<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#8a494a;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-24\"><p><em>Read Tyechia&#8217;s blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/aadhum.umd.edu\/2018\/03\/engaging-digital-tools-to-teach-african-american-literature\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-19 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-two-third fusion-column-last\" style=\"width:66.666666666667%;width:calc(66.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.66666666666667 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-25\"><p>Tyechia L. Thompson is a lecturer at Howard University. Her research areas are 20th and 21st Century African American literary and cultural studies and digital humanities. Her current work focuses\u00a0on African-American writers in Paris, post-1960, and user interface design. Recently, she has published in the\u00a0<em>College Language Association Journal<\/em> and <em>Fire!: The Multimedia Journal of Black Studies<\/em>. Currently, she is recreating a digital chapter from her dissertation with <em>Afro-Publishing Without Walls.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"parent":2020,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>AADHum Scholars: 2017\u20132018 - African American History, Culture &amp; Digital Humanities<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aadhum.umd.edu\/scholars\/2017-2018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AADHum Scholars: 2017\u20132018 - African American History, Culture &amp; Digital Humanities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/aadhum.umd.edu\/scholars\/2017-2018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"African American History, Culture &amp; Digital Humanities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-12-16T21:02:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aadhum.umd.edu\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/aadhum.umd.edu\/\",\"name\":\"African American History, Culture &amp; Digital Humanities\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/aadhum.umd.edu\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aadhum.umd.edu\/scholars\/2017-2018\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/aadhum.umd.edu\/scholars\/2017-2018\/\",\"name\":\"AADHum Scholars: 2017\\u20132018 - African American History, Culture &amp; Digital Humanities\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aadhum.umd.edu\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2018-09-25T16:11:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-12-16T21:02:00+00:00\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/aadhum.umd.edu\/scholars\/2017-2018\/\"]}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aadhum.umd.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aadhum.umd.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aadhum.umd.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aadhum.umd.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aadhum.umd.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aadhum.umd.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3027,"href":"https:\/\/aadhum.umd.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2679\/revisions\/3027"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aadhum.umd.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aadhum.umd.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}