Come join the UH Center for Public History, Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies, and the African American Library at the Gregory School for a public lecture presentation by Dr. Amy E. Earhart on “The Millican Massacre: Recovering the Past, Documenting for the Future.”
Dr. Earhart will discuss her research around the 1868 “race riot” in Millican, Texas
and address the topic of the intersection between digital humanities and critical
race studies.
When: Thursday, October 17th
Where: African American Library at the Gregory School
Time: 5:30 PM
Amy E. Earhart is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University. Earhart’s work focuses on building infrastructure for digital humanities (DH) work, embedding digital humanities projects within the classroom, and tracing the history and futures of DH, with a particular interest in the way that DH and critical race studies intersect. Earhart’s projects include The Millican Massacre, 1868, DIBB: The Digital Black Bibliographic Project, and “Alex Haley’s Malcolm X: ‘The Malcolm X I knew’ and notecards from The Autobiography of Malcolm X”