Emory Center for Digital Scholarship

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🌷 This #InternationalWomensDay, we’re highlighting the Kipp Dawson Website, a collaborative digital project supported by ECDS documenting six decades of activism across civil rights, feminist, labor, and LGBTQ movements.

🌍 It’s Open Education Week! #OEWeek26 @oeglobal.bsky.social

In our new blog post, ECDS highlights several open digital projects—from Apollo mission archives to resources on Atlanta history and tango. All free and open to access.

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Join us for The Buzz! ☕
Learn about digital scholarship projects at Emory and the technologies behind them.

📅 March 17 | 11 AM–12 PM
📍 Jones Room, Woodruff Library

Short talks + coffee + conversation. We hope to see you there!

Michael T. Robinson examines the underrepresentation of Black men in physical therapy and calls attention to the lived realities that must inform real structural change: www.jhrehab.org/2026/02/24/a...

Unicorn in Motion In her moving poem, “Unicorn in Motion”, Dr. Dawn Brown speaks to the challenges of being seen differently and provides insights into diversity and identity in physical therapy. She shows how rarit…

Dawn S. Brown reclaims the idea of being a “unicorn” in leadership — not as fantasy, but as hard-earned mastery: www.jhrehab.org/2026/02/24/u...

The Death of Her Clinicians are trained to help: to put the patient first, to promote healing. But does anyone ever consider how that professional might be feeling? This brave account details the inner agonies of a…

Rhonda C. White’s poem confronts the hidden weight of imposter syndrome and academic pressure within physical therapy: www.jhrehab.org/2026/01/27/t...

As #blackhistorymonth comes to a close, we take a moment to highlight forthcoming work from the Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation that centers Black identity, representation, and lived experience in healthcare.

Learn more in our new blog: scholarblogs.emory.edu/ecds/learn-m...

Amy Roberts on formation of the St. Simons Island African American Heritage Coalition | Georgia Coast Atlas A video from the Georgia Coast Atlas.

For #BlackHistoryMonth this week, I'll share video interviews with Black historians on the @ecds-emory.bsky.social Georgia Coast Atlas. Today: Amy Lotson Roberts, founder & Executive Director of the African American Heritage Coalition, St. Simons Island GA. www.georgiacoastatlas.org/collections/...

Edda Fields-Black on African slaves' role in early Lowcountry rice cultivation | Georgia Coast Atlas A video from the Georgia Coast Atlas.

For #BlackHistoryMonth this week, I'm sharing video interviews with Black historians on the @ecds-emory.bsky.social Georgia Coast Atlas. Today: Dr. Edda Fields-Black, Dept. of History at Carnegie-Mellon U., on the role of enslaved people in rice cultivation. www.georgiacoastatlas.org/collections/...

Melissa Cooper on the African survivals debate and the myth of Sea Islanders purity via isolation | Georgia Coast Atlas A video from the Georgia Coast Atlas.

For #BlackHistoryMonth this week, I'm sharing video interviews with Black historians on the @ecds-emory.bsky.social Georgia Coast Atlas. Today: Dr. Melissa Cooper, Dept. of History at Rutgers U., on the myth of "cultural purity" on Georgia barrier islands. www.georgiacoastatlas.org/collections/...

Akira Drake Rodriguez explores the leadership of Black women in tenant organizing and public housing activism during the 1960s: atlantastudies.org/2021/05/26/b...

Keith Hollingsworth details how Black business communities responded to the violence of the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre by consolidating commercial districts for protection and resilience: atlantastudies.org/2025/05/27/p...

Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar examines the development of Black political and economic power in the city through the lens of Afro self-determinism: atlantastudies.org/2025/07/24/a...

Augustus Wood highlights labor and housing activism led by working-class Black women in the 1970s: atlantastudies.org/2025/08/06/t...

This #blackhistorymonth, explore Black Atlanta with ATL Studies — from Black women’s labor activism to Black political power and business districts shaped in the wake of 1906.

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#atlstudies #blackatlanta #publichistory

Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future On the seventieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education—the US Supreme Court decision outlawing racial segregation in the nation’s public schools—Steve Suitts reveals an emerging, seismic shift i...

Steve Suitts analyzes contemporary education policy debates in light of the long history of unequal schooling in the South. southernspaces.org/2024/separat...

Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South In this essay, Matthew Delmont examines four programs that brought music and dance to southern and border state television audiences in the 1950s and 1960s. Arguing that television provided creative o...

Matthew F. Delmont looks at Black teen dance television programs and their role in creating spaces of creativity amid segregation. southernspaces.org/2015/dancing...

When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras Weaving insightful analysis into a brief biography of gospel icon John P. Kee, Claudrena N. Harold explores gospel music's essential place as an outlet for African Americans to express their spiritual...

Claudrena N. Harold traces gospel music’s enduring importance as a site of spiritual and cultural expression. southernspaces.org/2020/when-su...

Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South Kylie Smith reviews Mab Segrest's Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum (New York: The New Press, 2020) and Wendy Gonaver's The Peculiar...

Kylie Smith reflects on how racism shaped the development of psychiatry in the American South. southernspaces.org/2021/psychia...

Ashé: Cultural Arts Cornerstone in New Orleans’ Central City The Ashé Cultural Arts Center is the first institution of its kind founded by and for people of African descent in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Center is located on 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard i...

D. Caleb Smith explores the role of the Ashé Cultural Arts Center as a cornerstone of community and cultural life in New Orleans’ Central City. southernspaces.org/2025/ashe-cu...

📚 This Black History Month, we’re highlighting articles from Southern Spaces exploring Black cultural life, media, music, education, and struggles for justice across the U.S. South.

Explore more through our new blog: scholarblogs.emory.edu/ecds/learn-m...

#blackhistory #blackhistorymonth

For educators, researchers, & curiosity seekers, check out this collection of educational videos about the environmental & human histories of the Georgia coast. Videos are archived by @ecds-emory.bsky.social as part of the Georgia Coast Atlas project. 🧪🌊
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Working on a digital project, article draft, dissertation chapter, or grant proposal? Join the Digital Scholarship Work in Progress Seminars for a supportive space to share ideas, get feedback, and connect with fellow scholars across Emory campus.

Sign up here: scholarblogs.emory.edu/gcds

Highlighting the Important Work of the Holocaust Denial on Trial Project On this International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Emory Center for Digital Scholarship is highlighting the important work of the Holocaust Denial on Trial project.

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Holocaust Remembrance Day January 27h, 2026 On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, ECDS highlights Holocaust Denial on Trial (H-DOT), a digital archive preserving the landmark 2000 UK court case that decisively rejected Holocaust denial. Explore how transparency, evidence, and history came together to defend truth, and why it still matters today.

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we reflect on the power that archives, scholarship, and testimony play in preserving truth and confronting hatred.
Visit Holocaust Denial on Trial, a searchable digital archive of the landmark D. Irving v. Deborah Lipstadt case.

The Nature of Rights Robert Macfarlane's Is a River Alive? draws upon interviews with Rights of Nature advocates who are countering the consequences wrought by extractive industry and climate change on major river systems...

New on Southern Spaces: 🌊
In The Nature of Rights, Ellen Griffith Spears reviews Robert Macfarlane’s Is a River Alive?, connecting global river struggles to endangered waterways across the US South—and to the growing Rights of Nature movement.

southernspaces.org/2026/nature-...

Interdisciplinary Collaborations Reflected in Professor Kylie Smith’s New Book Professor Kylie Smith’s new book, Jim Crow in the Asylum, is set to be published by UNC Press January 13th, in both print and open access digital editions.

Happy #PubDay to @drkyliesmith.bsky.social! 🌟 Her new book “Jim Crow in the Asylum” (@uncpress.bsky.social) is out now and available #open access, thanks to our digital publishing initiative's collaboration with @ecds-emory.bsky.social.

Learn more: bit.ly/4qWLTLY
Start reading now: bit.ly/4qohBBM

January book events in Atlanta: Talks, signings and author Q&As From Paula McLain to Alison Lyn Miller, here are 10 book and author events happening across metro Atlanta in January.

We love to see @drkyliesmith.bsky.social book talk at Charis Books & More on Jan 16th listed in this list of 10 metro Atlanta book and author events to checkout in January from @ajc.com 👏

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