Monday, February 22, 2021, 7:00 PM, EST
Bl(x)ck Rhizomes: A Digital Public History Praxis
Aleia M. Brown, PhD, Assistant Director
African American History, Culture & Digital Humanities Initiative
MITH at the University of Maryland
Dr. Brown will share insights on Black liberation-oriented public history projects and also speculate about design processes that might help us deepen our understanding of freedom movements.
This event is part of The Diverse Perspectives in Digital Media & Design: 2021 Speaker Series
of the Department of Digital Medi & Design at the University of Connecticut
and is co-sponsored by the UConn Humanities Institute and its Digital Humanities & Media Studies Initiative.
About Dr. Brown:
Aleia M. Brown serves as the Assistant Director of the African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities (AADHum) Initiative at the University of Maryland, where she co-directs the Restorative Justice Project and leads research, teaching, and programmatic
initiatives. She was the recipient of the 2017-2019 Mellon-ACLS public fellowship, working as program manager at the Humanities Action Lab at Rutgers University-Newark. There she launched the multi-media installation
Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Justice. As Curator of African American History and Culture at the Michigan State University Museum she worked with the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation in Cape Town, SA to co-curate the traveling
exhibition
Ubuntutu: Life Legacies of Love and Action, and co-author the companion catalog. She has written and given talks on her two digital projects
#BlkTwitterstorians and
#MuseumsRespondtoFerguson. The desire to surface how Black folks have imagined and crafted liberation animates her
exploration in un/merging material culture and virtual environments. Her current manuscript in progress reckons with the historic mishandling of Black women’s textile art and illuminates the sophisticated ways that makers have visualized Black political thought.
Brown holds a Ph.D. in Public History from Middle Tennessee State University, an M.A. in Public History from Northern Kentucky University, and a B.S. in History from the Honors College at Coppin State University.
Public History│Digital
Humanities │Museum and US Cultural Studies
Associate Director of Research
Greenhouse
Studios│Scholarly Communications Design at UConn
Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities
Room 241, 860.486.7179
Digital Media & Design Department
School of Fine Arts
One Bishop Circle
Unit 4260
Storrs, CT 06269-4260
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