Celebrating the 2024 AADHum Microgrant Awardees!

This year’s cohort embodies creativity, innovation, and a commitment to amplifying underrepresented voices. From visual narratives, original music, and abolitionist podcasts to digital exhibits and culturally relevant mental health tools, these projects explore new ways of connecting with history, culture, and community engagement in digital humanities.

Meet the 2024 Microgrant Awardees

Kristine Li Puma, OUR CLUB: Black and Latinx LGBTQ Spaces of Liberation in DC (1970-2000)

Kristine is developing a digital exhibit that highlights grassroots organizing and liberation efforts in DC’s LGBTQ+ Black and Latinx communities, using archival photographs and objects.

Bilal Akbar, Community Canvas: A Marketplace of Heritage and Future

Bilal’s digital marketplace celebrates Black creativity and heritage by merging traditional craftwork with contemporary digital art.

Rasha Alkhateeb, Place-Making Literacies & Place-Conscious Education: Creating Visual Narratives

Through workshops for pre-service teachers, Rasha employs visual narratives and photo-voice strategies to link race and place, fostering culturally responsive teaching practices.

Sarah Scriven, Black Women's Scrapbooks: A Look from Within

Sarah’s project explores scrapbooks as tools for knowledge production and community representation, with a focus on archival research into Pauli Murray’s scrapbooking practices and their significance in documenting personal and cultural histories.

James Wright, Innovating Antiracist Writing Education with Large Language Models

James examines how generative AI tools perpetuate linguistic racism and works toward innovating antiracist writing education practices within academic writing centers.

Jehnae Linkins, Blackness in Engineering Design: Resilio

Jehnae’s project aims to develop a culturally relevant web application prototype for a socially assistive robot, designed to support the mental health of Black high school and pre-college students.

Abigail Vazquez Rosario, Bomba's Digital Batey: A Critical Technocultural Analysis of Afro-Puerto Rican Bomberxs’ Cyber Grioting.

Abigail uses Black feminist praxis and Caribbean thought to explore how Bomberxs (practitioners of Bomba) create online spaces that resist racism and patriarchy while preserving this Afro-Puerto Rican cultural tradition.

Devon Betts, There's No Pill for What Ails Us: Paranoia, Power, and the Politics of Prevention.*

Devon’s research explores the role of paranoia in online spaces, and particularly how Black Americans mobilize Paranoia* to create counter discourses that critique, deconstruct, and challenge antiblack medical regimes.

Yereni Butcher, Água de coco

Yereni’s project is a cultural and agricultural in-depth look at the significance of coconut in the lives of Indigenous and Black communities in Panama and Mexico, through an interactive digital format.

These projects represent a diverse range of voices and perspectives, each leveraging digital tools to explore and preserve cultural narratives.

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