Monthly Archives: May 2018
Digital Decolonization: Research as a NULab Fellow
Written on May 22, 2018 at 11:41 am, by spayne
As a NULab Fellow during the 2017-2018 academic year, I devoted a portion of my hours each week to working with the Early Caribbean Digital Archive (ECDA). I was initially drawn to the ECDA for a variety of reasons. As a PhD candidate in literature, my dissertation includes a significant amount of attention to twentieth century Caribbean Continue Reading »
Boston Research Center featured in Boston Magazine
Written on May 21, 2018 at 1:36 pm, by Sarah Connell
The Boston Research Center was recently featured in Boston Magazine: “Boston has a long and complicated past, and its many archives and databases each tell little pieces of that story—a photo album here, a map there, a batch of letters and some old news articles somewhere else. But what do we do with all that stuff? What kinds Continue Reading »
Research by NULab faculty members Moya Bailey and Brooke Foucault Welles featured in News@Northeastern
Written on May 10, 2018 at 11:25 am, by Sarah Connell
From News@Northeastern: In April 2014, the New York Police Department started a social media campaign, asking its Twitter followers to use the hashtag #MyNYPD and tweet photos of themselves with police officers. A few folks participated, snapping and sharing pictures with officers at a Yankees game or Central Park. But in a New York minute, Continue Reading »
NULab Core Faculty Member Moya Bailey named to Essence Magazine’s Woke 100 Women of 2018
Written on May 3, 2018 at 10:18 am, by Sarah Connell
From News@Northeastern: Moya Bailey has always known that a black woman in America has to navigate a compounded, specific kind of discrimination. There just wasn’t a name for it. So in 2010, while researching her dissertation, she came up with one. Bailey coinedthe term “misogynoir” to recognize the specific race- and gender-based biases black women face Continue Reading »
Northeastern University Receives Mellon Grant for Boston Research Center
Written on May 3, 2018 at 10:14 am, by Sarah Connell
From News@Northeastern: Northeastern University has received a $200,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the largest funder of the humanities in the United States, to launch a new center dedicated to the study of Boston, enabling researchers from around the world to shed light on the city’s past, present, and future. “Boston is a Continue Reading »