Please save the date for this year’s Barbara Meyers Pelson ‘59 Faculty-Student Engagement Annual Lecture on April 15, 2022 at 12:30 pm in EDU 212 (and via zoom). The lecture will be followed by a reception.
Speaker
Ángel David Nieves, Ph.D., Professor of Africana Studies, History, Digital Humanities, & English; Director of Public Humanities at Northeastern University.
He will give a talk titled, Critical Fabulations and Co-Creation in the African Diaspora: Community Engagement Models, Participatory Practices, and Social Justice in the Digital Humanities.
Additionally, Dr. Nieves will offer a workshop on April 14th at 4:00 pm titled, Heritage Justice in the Digital Humanities: Community-Based Practices and BiPOC Public Humanities Social Justice Work.
About the Speaker
Ángel David Nieves is Professor of Africana Studies, History, Digital Humanities, and English, and Director of Public Humanities at Northeastern University. Nieves is the author and co-editor of two historical monographs, including An Architecture of Education: African American Women Design the New South (2018) and ‘We Shall Independent Be:’ African American Place Making and the Struggle to Claim Space in the U.S. (w/Alexander, 2008). In January of this year he completed a new volume in the Debates in the Digital Humanities Series (w/Senier & McGrail), People, Practice, Power: Digital Humanities Outside the Center (December 2021).
Dr. Nieves’s scholarship focuses on the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and technology in the U.S. and South Africa, and is in the vanguard of digital history publications and experimental online publishing platforms. Nieves has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Historical Publications & Records Commission (NHPRC), and Yale University. At Hamilton College he raised over $2.7 million dollars (w/Janet Simons) in research support for interdisciplinary digital scholarship with undergraduates as research project collaborators.
He is currently working on a digital book project, Apartheid Heritage(s): A Spatial History of South Africa’s Black Townships, that combines human rights violations testimony and 3D reconstruction technologies of sites destroyed by the apartheid-era regime. He is also the Lead Co-PI (w/Uta Poiger) on a Planning Grant from the Mellon Foundation for a project entitled, “Reckonings: A Local History Platform for the Community-Archivist. Reckonings seeks to disrupt the traditional top-down methods of conducting historical projects with a process of community co-curation, so that the history we should value is not only more accurate, but more encompassing of the trials and triumphs of our nation’s marginalized communities through analog and digital formats.