Investigating Race Through Digital Humanities Approaches

FAIN: AA-284524-22

Framingham State University (Framingham, MA 01702-2499)
Bartholomew Brinkman (Project Director: May 2021 to present)

Workshops for faculty and other educators on integrating the study of race in the United States with resources for digital humanities research and pedagogy.

Framingham State University (FSU) proposes strengthening its commitments to the digital humanities (DH) and to the investigation of race through multiple interrelated activities. FSU will host a faculty institute on race and DH in 2022–2023; a summer program for area high school teachers in 2023; and a series of workshops for area cultural organizations in 2023–2024. It will also host a series of lectures/workshops by local junior scholars on issues of DH and race from fall 2022 through fall 2024. These activities will support existing DH initiatives—including a recently developed interdisciplinary DH minor—as they foreground the ways that such core DH practices as text analysis, geospatial mapping, and online exhibition building can newly address key questions surrounding race in America, both historically and in our present moment. In doing so, the proposed activities ultimately aim to promote “A More Perfect Union” at FSU and throughout the Boston MetroWest region.