Enslaved.org Summer Faculty Institute: Data-Informed Methods in Slavery Studies

FAIN: EH-288045-22

Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI 48824-3407)
Walter Hawthorne (Project Director: February 2022 to present)
Kristina Poznan (Co Project Director: February 2022 to present)

The team behind Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade, based at Matrix: Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences at Michigan State University is applying to host a National Endowment for the Humanities Level II Institute for Higher Education Faculty on data-informed methods in slavery studies. The program, designed for fifteen participants, will run for four weeks in the summer of 2023, with two weeks on-site at Michigan State University followed by two weeks of virtual work. Year one of this two-year project (2022-2024) will focus on preparing for and hosting the institute. During the second year, the project will publish, in the Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation, data articles, datasets, and supporting data documentation created by institute participants.