Anti-Racist Digital Public Humanities: Opportunities and Challenges by Prof. Roopika Risam, Ph.D.

Roopika Risam will draw on her work editing Anti-Racist Community Engagement: Principles and Practices and her experience as a digital public humanities practitioner to explore the tremendous opportunities and occasional challenges of doing digital and public humanities. Risam will ground her insights and advice in her data visualization project Torn Apart/Separados, which helped lawyers and social workers unite families that had been separated at the U.S.-Mexico Border, and her ongoing project, History Lives Here, which recovers the untold story of the Freemans, a prominent Black family of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Topics include the unrecognized history of public humanities, ethics of community partnership, and the challenge of evaluating digital and public humanities work for tenure and promotion.

Co-sponsored by the Axinn Center for the Humanities and midd.data