Charles H.F. Davis III has been selected as a one of six 2022 Anti-Racist Digital Research Initiative Awardees by the University of Michigan.
The Anti-Racist Digital Research Initiative is a mini-grant program that supports early-stage digital scholarship projects that advance anti-racism and social justice in the humanities, arts, and humanistic social sciences. Projects can take a broad range of forms, from collecting community interviews to providing access to data in interesting ways, such as digital maps or collections.
Davis’ project, “It Was All A Dream: A Digital Ethnohistory of Contemporary Political Insurgency at Florida A&M University,” in partnership with Militia Design, proposes a “digital ethnohistory,” an alternative and activist new media project that curates digital artifacts from the student activism and political insurgency organized by students at Florida A&M University — one of the nation’s preeminent Historically Black Colleges & Universities — in the wake of the killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012. The goal is to create a more sustainable, interactive record of “communities of memory” from which activists can learn and mobilize in their own organizing years into the future.
For more information about the ARDRI please visit the initiative webpage here.