DH, Technological Recovery & Black Literary Tradition with Dr. Kim Gallon (BBIP Webinar: 8/9/2019)

The Black Book Interactive Project (BBIP) - part of the University of Kansas's History of Black Writing project (HBW) - is a digital archive of over 7,000 Black-authored texts. It launched in 2010 and has received funding from KU, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. PhiloLogic, a searchable online metadata platform from the Textual Optics Lab at the University of Chicago, powers BBIP's HBW Novel Corpus.
These webinars are part of BBIP's Extending the Reach Scholars Program: a series of live event digital humanities webinars conducted by BBIP community partners and advisors that inform and support the scholars’ work.
Dr. Kim Gallon is an associate professor of Africana Studies at Purdue University. She completed a Ph.D. in history at the University of Pennsylvania, a master’s degree in library and information science at Drexel University, and a bachelor’s degree in English at Rutgers-Camden University. Dr. Gallon also holds graduate certificates in African Studies, Africana Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies. Gallon serves as the Founder and Director of the Black Press Research Collective and is an ongoing visiting scholar at the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Her work has been published in History Compass, Journalism History, Transformations, Pennsylvania History, and Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, and supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, Social Science Research Council, and Spencer Foundation. She is currently publishing "We Are Becoming a Tabloid Race: The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in the Black Press, 1925-1945."
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