Welcome AADHum's Newest Residents!

The AADHum Residencies provide humanities-centered scholars and artists with financial, conceptual, and technical support toward the implementation of an especially hybrid or experimental #BlackDH project, event, or intervention. AADHum Residents are invited to apply, or are drawn from applicant pools for our other programs.

Seren Sensei  is a filmmaker, writer, and artist. Her writing has been printed in such publications as NAACP’s The Crisis Magazine, NYLON magazine, Kweli Journal, and Riot Material, and referenced in Jacobin, Vulture, Complex, Newsweek, AJ+, People, Netflix, Vice, Walker Art and more. Specializing in race, culture, and sociopolitical theory, she has released three seasons of the web series ‘The [Black] Americans’ to explore and archive Black American cultural narratives. She was a 2016- 2017 cohort with ‘at lands edge’ pedagogical program to combine art and activism, and in 2020 was named an Indie Memphis Black Filmmaker Resident for her screenplay, ‘Kitt.’ She was also named a 2020-2021 “Time, Space, Money” HRLA Resident, exhibiting a video installation on police brutality protests at Actual Size Gallery in Los Angeles. The first chapter of her speculative fiction novel, Blue Zone, was published digitally through Arch Street Press, winning the 'Meet Me @ 19th St.' literary award.

// Click here to learn more about Sensei's project on Black play as a form of healing and collective witness, {unhurried} [witness].

Allie Martin explores the relationships between race, sound, and gentrification in Washington, DC. Utilizing a combination of ethnographic fieldwork and digital humanities methodologies, Allie considers how African-American people in the city experience gentrification as a sonic, racialized process. Currently an Assistant Professor of Music and the Cluster for Digital Humanities and Social Engagement at Dartmouth College, Martin's work has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, the Society for American Music, and the American Musicological Society. She is currently working on her first book, entitled Intersectional Listening: Gentrification and Black Sonic Life in Washington, DC.

// Click here to learn more about Martin's interactive project on sound and care in Black D.C. communities, Black Covid Care.