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Research Projects, Publications and Grant Proposals

• 12 of the 14 BBIP Scholars from Cohort I (2019) presented their research findings at our first BBIP Mini-Conference in April 2020.  Recordings of those presentations can be viewed at the links below.
• Tyechia Thompson and Sarah Mease (Virginia Tech University), supported by Tech’s library, co-directed a 2019 Summer Institute for area undergrad students focusing on vernacular practices in novels and utilizing PhiloLogic and the BBIP metadata to search for and document their findings.
• Marina Del Sol and Elisio Jacob (Howard University) are working on a project “Porches as Sites of Citizenship,” using PhiloLogic to illuminate third spaces (places where people spent time between home and work) in the writings of Black women from the South. 
• Seretha Williams of Augusta University and Conrad Pegues from University of Tennessee at Martin are part of a team who are searching PhiloLogic for stylistic and linguistic elements of Afro-Futurism. 
• Susan Weeber (University of Oregon), Ebony Perro (Tulane University) and Joyce White (Winthrop University) examine the limitations of DH and seek to refine methods for teaching and research. 
• Jacinta Saffold of University of New Orleans and Khirsten Scott of University of Pittsburgh are working to create a dataset based on the Essence magazine bestsellers list.
• Rochelle Spencer of Fisk University has published articles on BBIP in Black Perspectives, On the Seawall  and Public Books.
• Dana Chandler and Zanice Bond of Tuskegee University submitted a proposal to digitize their holdings of Civil Rights materials to the Mellon Community Archive Project.
• Rochelle Spencer. “Creating Digital Space for Black Scholarship.” Black Perspectives. October 27, 2019. 
• Rochelle Spencer. “The Black Book Interactive Project: A Talk with the Scholars.” On the Seawall. January 8, 2020. 
• Rochelle Spencer. “Reading Black Futures." Public Books. July 7, 2020.