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Digital humanities

Innovative academics
Center for Digital Humanities connects human thought and computation
Published March 7, 2023
The Center for Digital Humanities helps advance research by exploring what humans do that computers can't, and vice versa, and discovering connection points between the two
Black beyond data
Published June 2, 2022
Historian Jessica Marie Johnson leads several teams tapping into the power of datasets to uncover new truths about Black history
History+Humanities
Archival project focuses on Colonial Louisiana
Published Jan 20, 2022
"Kinship and Longing: Keywords for Black Louisiana" project led by historian Jessica Marie Johnson will translate and bring to light records that are vital to the understanding of American history
Digital humanities
New project unites digital humanities, Black studies, and data and computation
Published July 15, 2021
Black Beyond Data, a new project backed by a $300,000 Mellon grant, will seek to create an open resource for scholars to combat racial injustice through digital humanities