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| Happy Tuesday everyone! We hope you are having a good week and enjoying the cooler weather. Keep reading to learn about our next event, meet Dr. Jennifer Boittin, and see what’s happening in the world of digital history. |
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Intro to Digital History
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| Learn about digital history with the LAUNCH! Join the History Undergraduate Association and the Lab at UNC History to discover what digital history is and how it can apply to your research. Graduate student Nick Sifford will walk through some of the software and techniques used by digital historians.
We hope to see you next week on Wednesday, November 20 at 4:00 p.m. in Pauli Murray #569! |
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| Jennifer A. Boittin – New Faculty 2024 |
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Meet New Faculty!
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| Jennifer A. Boittin is the Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global History. Her research and teaching look at how colonial spaces in West Africa, Southeast Asia, North Africa, and the French Caribbean were shaped by intersections between class, politics, and urban culture around the world wars and decolonization. She has published extensively on the Nardal sisters, Lamine Senghor, Tiémoko Garan Kouyaté, Black anti-imperialism, masculinity, Black and African diaspora, Josephine Baker, and women travelers. She is a Past President of the Western Society of French History, editor of French Colonial History, and founding member on the editorial committee for Marronnages, les questions raciales au crible des sciences sociales. |
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Digital Stories for Justice
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| Last month, Northeastern University hosted the series “Digital Stories for Justice,” where graduate students presented their digital research projects focused on social justice. One of the presenters was Cassie Tanks, a UNC MSLS alum and current PhD Candidate at Northeastern. Her presentation discussed her project “After the War: Oral Histories, Veterans Narratives, and Community Collaboration in Public Humanities,” which “aims to create space for veterans who served the U.S. military to share their experiences, or the experiences of family, loved ones, and previously forgotten veterans, for the wider public.” Students from HIST 593: Internship at the Southern Oral History Program also helped collect the oral histories used for Tanks’ project. |
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| Make sure to contact the LAUNCH if there are any skills you want to learn, need support with your own digital history projects, or are interested in our podcast! |
| Thanks for reading, |
| The LAUNCH Team (Cameron, Ha Lien, Dani, & Nicholas) |
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