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Newly dropped: our first Kitchen Studio has opened!

Newly dropped: our first Kitchen Studio has opened!

AADHum's Kitchen Studios program sponsors small gatherings of scholars and artists created around a shared desire to make something amazing. Fellows are drawn from across AADHum programs. Much like our microgrant program, but focused on slow collaboration over time, Kitchen Studios support innovative and independent student work. Interactive

The AADHum student microgrant program ⇢ Monthly deadlines

The AADHum student microgrant program ⇢ Monthly deadlines

Students can apply for up to $250 to support digital and/ or experimental projects that are grounded in humanities-based approaches to the study or expression of Black life. These grants are for independent student work...

Dr. Elizabeth M. Alexander | brown bag talk

Dr. Elizabeth M. Alexander | brown bag talk

Dr. Alexander designs and develops across digital and print media, with a critical and creative research practice focused on Black women’s technoculture, the embodied lifecycles of cultural and personal data, and the Southwest Side of Chicago. They have held a Mellon Editorial Fellowship at Northwestern University Press, co-produced the

As the wheels turn... AADHum rolls along

As the wheels turn... AADHum rolls along

As a place for Black digital studies and digital humanities at the University of Maryland, AADHum cultivates diverse communities of practice, sites wherein people can discover, make, evaluate, or even discard digital tools and methods in ways that assert the specificity, nuance, and intentionality of the stories they wish to

Where to find us!

Where to find us!

Right now you are reading our events and news microsite at https://aadhum.umd.edu/news To learn more about AADHum more generally, visit our website at https://aadhum.umd.edu Need your information fast? Use for schedules, links, etc. ⇢ https://linktr.ee/aadhum Need your information slow? Join our

We 🖤 #BlackDH | Legacy Russell's BLACK MEME

We 🖤 #BlackDH | Legacy Russell's BLACK MEME

We love amplifying #BlackDH work! In 2022, AADHum completed a double issue of Reviews in DH, guest-edited by Marisa Parham, Aleia Brown, and Trevor Muñoz. At AADHum we are always thinking about what it means to tell a story about the diversity of Black work across digital modalities. Here'

Greenscreening Diaspora :: Friday, April 28 at 12pm EST (Open Lab ⇢ in-person & streaming)

Greenscreening Diaspora :: Friday, April 28 at 12pm EST (Open Lab ⇢ in-person & streaming)

Guest speaker Dr. Van Tran Nguyen will lead a hands-on video editing workshop showcasing the use of green screen recording as a digital narrative form, highlighting her use of green screen as a medium for diasporic folklore.

Deep dives & sweet explorations at the AADHum Scholars' retreat

AADHum Scholars

Deep dives & sweet explorations at the AADHum Scholars' retreat

January saw us host our first AADHum Scholars Retreat. For this day-long retreat, held at AADHum's UMD studio space, we thought deeply, played hard, and ate well!

Animate your physical world w/ Snapchat AR ⇢ 2/21 & 3/9

Animate your physical world w/ Snapchat AR ⇢ 2/21 & 3/9

Join us for a series of augmented reality (AR) workshops, offered by AADHum's Visiting Research Professor Andrew W. Smith and sponsored by SnapChat!

Ebbs and flows, loving and losing...

Ebbs and flows, loving and losing...

The end of 2022 was a time of immense win and loss in BlackDH. In October it was amazing to see P. Gabrielle Foreman named to the 2022 class of MacArthur fellows. Foreman is Paterno Family Professor of American Literature and Professor of African American Studies and History at Penn

Black Covid Care Launch Exhibition and Website

AADHum Scholars

Black Covid Care Launch Exhibition and Website

December saw the launch of one of AADHum's current Residency projects, Allie Martin's Black Covid Care project!

You're invited! Visit AADHum this Weds ⇢ 1 - 4pm

You're invited! Visit AADHum this Weds ⇢ 1 - 4pm

Guess what? AADHum has opened a small humanities research and design studio, and we would like for you to come and see it! In case you haven't heard, we are holding a casual Open House this Wednesday the 22nd, from 1pm to 4:30pm. We'll have

We 🖤 #BlackDH | Reviews in DH + Jamila Pewu Moore

We 🖤 #BlackDH | Reviews in DH + Jamila Pewu Moore

We love amplifying #BlackDH work! In 2022, AADHum completed a double issue of Reviews in DH, edited by Marisa Parham, Aleia Brown, and Trevor Muñoz. Over our next few newsletters, we'll be highlighting projects reviewed in those issues, as well as #BlackDH projects we weren't able

Black Food Justice, Digital Storytelling, & Community Partnerships :: Thursday, Dec. 8 at 5pm EST (online)

Black Food Justice, Digital Storytelling, & Community Partnerships :: Thursday, Dec. 8 at 5pm EST (online)

This Thursday at 5pm EST, AADHum is pleased to present Growing Greater, a virtual event exploring digital storytelling and Black food justice in Chicago. We will preview “Growing a Greater Englewood,” (season 2, ep. 3), an audio story profiling one organization’s work toward Black community food sovereignty. This episode

Catch some inspiration

Catch some inspiration

We recently came across this Tik Tok video, shared by Sam Sanders on Twitter. It's by user @emmanuelreddish, and it is a recording of him recasting TLC's "No Scrubs" as read by Dr. Maya Angelou. We experience it as a moment of virtuoso virtuality—

Welcome The Graduate AADHum Scholars

AADHum Scholars

Welcome The Graduate AADHum Scholars

The Graduate AADHum Scholars Program (tGASP) is specifically designed to support local students whose digital work is or might become an element of their graduate coursework, MA thesis, or dissertation. Applications are open to University System of Maryland and regional HBCU graduate students. Christiana McClain is a black queer writer

Welcome AADHum's Newest Residents!

AADHum Residents

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,

Welcome AADHum's Newest Scholars

AADHum Scholars

Welcome AADHum's Newest Scholars

The AADHum Scholars Program is a digital and experimental production fellowship that provides support to post-docs, faculty, artists, programmers, GLAM professionals, and independent scholars for the implementation of a #BlackDH project. Cienna Benn ’s research explores the modern development of Black aesthetic theory and its disciplinary logics practiced by Black

Peruse portfolios from SMC '22!

Peruse portfolios from SMC '22!

We are pleased to share some of the amazing texts developed by our 2022 Social Media Corps participants... The SMC fellowship program helps fellows to discover and develop a sense of visual and linguistic voice. From playlists to lesson plans, poetry to infographics, the work you'll find in

We 🖤 #BlackDH

Digital and experimental arts and humanities work can help us witness the unseen, or to process anew what we already think we know. Which is to say: we love amplifying #BlackDH work. We are grateful for Amardeep Singh's updated African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology. “As of May

This is not a new normal

This is not a new normal

As for so many, the last few years have not been especially kind to us nor to our work. Usually we fill this segment with an inspirational nugget drawn from Black culture(s). But in this round we want to hold a recent data visualization from the NYT. Paired with

Peruse portfolios from SMC '21!

Peruse portfolios from SMC '21!

We are pleased to share some of the amazing texts developed by our 2021 Social Media Corps participants! SMC helps fellows to discover and develop a sense of visual and linguistic voice. From playlists to lesson plans, poetry to infographics, the work you'll find in their portfolios spans

Meet our second class of Social Media Corps Fellows!

Meet our second class of Social Media Corps Fellows!

Join us in welcoming our second cohort of Social Media Corps fellows. The SMC program introduces new and recently emerged scholars to using design and social media to share and develop humanities scholarship. Richard Daily (SMC '21) will be joining us as a teaching assistant and cohort ambassador, and

AADHum Scholars

AADHum's 2022-23 programs are launching!

The Summer 2022 SMC program is up and running, and applications for our numerous other grants, labs, and programs are also becoming available! Applications for both AADHum Scholars Programs are due Sunday June 5, 2022 At the center of the reimagined AADHum Scholars Program is a digital humanities fellowship that

We 🖤 #BlackDH

In the coming months, we're excited to amplify digital projects from the larger #BlackDH world! For now check out the Enslaved dot org project, which offers an expansive look at both at large datasets about enslaved persons in the Americas, and also connects that data to other kinds