DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly

2025 19.1

The Politics and Ethics of Naming the Names of Enslaved People in Digital Humanities Projects

Editors: Walter Hawthorne, Richard Roberts, Fatoumata Seck, and Rebecca Wall

Front Matter

Introduction: The Politics and Ethics of Naming the Names of Enslaved People in Digital Humanities Projects
Walter Hawthorne, Michigan State University; Richard Roberts, Stanford University; Fatoumata Seck, Stanford University; Rebecca Wall, Loyola Marymount University
Abstract  [en]

Articles

Digitizing Guardianship Registers in Senegal (1895-1910): Naming as Evidence and Ethical Concern
Kelly M. Duke Bryant, Rowan University
Abstract  [en]
Reflections on the Ethics of Research with the Registers of Liberated Africans in the Indian Ocean
Matthew S. Hopper, California Polytechnic State University
Abstract  [en]
The Pedagogical Innovations and Ethical Challenges of Integrating an Online Version of the Registers of the Liberation of Senegal (1857-1903) into the Teaching of History in the Senegalese Middle Cycle Public Schooling
Mamadou Yéro Baldé, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal; Djibrirou Daouda Ba, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal; Ismaïla Mbodji, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal
Abstract  [en]

Case Studies

The Unnamed Fugitive and the Unknown Maroon: Anonymity and the Limits of Repair in Black Atlantic Historical Recovery
Annette Joseph-Gabriel, Duke University
Abstract  [en]
Descendants and Ethical Considerations when Documenting the Names of Enslaved People in Datasets on the Internet
Walter Hawthorne, Michigan State University
Abstract  [en]
Naming Names of Enslaved People in the Senegal Liberations Project
Richard Roberts, Stanford University; Rebecca Wall, Loyola Marymount University
Abstract  [en]
Naming Slavery in a Digital Public History Project in Mali in the Context of Increased Violence Against Those Who Refuse to Be Called “Slaves”
Marie Rodet, SOAS, University of London; Mamadou Séne Cissé, Association Donkosira, Mali
Abstract  [en]

Articles

Systematic bias in humanities datasets: ancient and medieval coin finds in the FLAME project
Lee Mordechai, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Alan Stahl, Princeton University; Mark Pyzyk, Getty Research Institute; Ilia Curto Pelle, Princeton University
Abstract  [en]
Unjust Readings: Against the New New Criticism
Paul Barrett, University of Guelph
Abstract  [en]
Experiments in Distant Reading: Using Topic Modeling on Chinese Buddhist Texts from 500-800 CE
Marcus Bingenheimer, Temple University; Justin Brody, Franklin and Marshall College; Ryan Nichols, Califoria State University, Fullerton
Abstract  [en]
Introducing Booksnake: A Scholarly App for Transforming Existing Digitized Archival Materials into Life-Size Virtual Objects for Embodied Interaction in Physical Space, using IIIF and Augmented Reality
Sean Fraga, University of Southern California; Christy Ye, University of Southern California; Henry Huang, University of Southern California; Zack Sai, University of Southern California; Michael Hughes, University of Southern California; April Yao, University of Southern California; Samir Ghosh, University of California, Santa Cruz
Abstract  [en]

Case Studies

Can Open-Source Fix Predictive Policing? Anti-Racist Critical Code Studies Approach to Contemporary AI Policing Software
Sarah Ciston, University of Southern California; Zach Mann, University of Southern California; Mark C. Marino, University of Southern California; Jeremy Douglass, University of California Santa Barbara
Abstract  [en]

Reviews

A Review of Bridget Whearty's Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor (2022)
Loren Lee, University of Virginia
Abstract  [en]
Black Waves in Digital Humanities: Vaziri's (2023) Exploration of African Enslavement in the Persian Gulf through Film
Zeinab Parishani, University of Missouri
Abstract  [en]
Review of The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities (2023)
Soni Wadhwa, SRM University, India
Abstract  [en]

Author Biographies