Research

AADHum continues to deepen its commitments to broadening the landscape of Black digital humanities, while also highlighting the numerous places where Black DH intersects with electronic literature, digital storytelling, computational poetics, and public humanities more generally. Through our own boundary-pushing research collaborations with leading scholars in the arts and humanities, AADHum serves as a vibrant center for Black DH research both in the greater Washington, DC area as well as nationally and internationally.

Digital Projects

9Night and Good Mourning

9Night and Good Mourning

Portrait of Christin Washington
Led by Christin Washington

9Night and Good Mourning is an immersive media installation that borrows its title and ethos from the African-syncretic funerary tradition, Nine Night, practiced across the Caribbe...

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An AADHum Residencies project
Black COVID Care

Black COVID Care

Portrait of Dr. Allie Martin
Led by Dr. Allie Martin

Narratives of Black life during the Covid-19 pandemic have disproportionately focused on high death rates, increased comorbidities, vaccine hesitancy, limited vaccine availability,...

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(unhurried) [witness]

(unhurried) [witness]

Led by Seren Sensei
Anti-Temporal Letters

Anti-Temporal Letters

Led by Andrew W. Smith
Black Belt Brooklyn

Black Belt Brooklyn

Led by Dr. Amaka Okechukwu
Black Haints in the Anthropocene

Black Haints in the Anthropocene

Led by Dr. Marisa Parham
ConvocationAR

ConvocationAR

Led by Andrew W. Smith, Dr. Marisa Parham
Fragmented Glimpes: A Digital Archive of the (Un)disciplined Life of Florence Beatty Brown, PhD

Fragmented Glimpes: A Digital Archive of the (Un)disciplined Life of Florence Beatty Brown, PhD

Led by Dr. Francena Turner
Growing a Greater Englewood

Growing a Greater Englewood

Led by Dr. Elizabeth Murice Alexander
Helix.CP Time

Helix.CP Time

Led by Katelin Ten
Lakeland Digital Archive

Lakeland Digital Archive

Led by Maxine Gross, Violetta Sharps-Jones
Let Us Be Weightless

Let Us Be Weightless

Led by Dr. Marisa Parham
LiteraryDJ

LiteraryDJ

Led by Andrew W. Smith
matter combines …

matter combines …

Led by Andrew W. Smith
migrastory

migrastory

Led by Himadri Agarwal
Project Black Light: Black E. Lit

Project Black Light: Black E. Lit

Led by Dr. Rosamond E. King
remix. relive. remember.

remix. relive. remember.

Led by Andrew W. Smith
Sankofa's Cosmic Adasinkro

Sankofa's Cosmic Adasinkro

Led by Lisa Osei
Sensing Sferics

Sensing Sferics

Led by Dr. Jeffrey Moro
Stories of Sudan

Stories of Sudan

Led by Basmah Elradi
VerseViz

VerseViz

Led by Alice Bi
Voice & Story

Voice & Story

Led by Dr. Merle Collins
What’s in your air?

What’s in your air?

Led by Andrew W. Smith