News, Announcements, and Events
Date posted: April 21, 2024
Kinfolkology Co-Founder Jennie K. Williams joined Dr. Martha Jones and Dr. Paige Glotzer for a virtual conversation about reckoning with the history of Johns Hopkins University.
Professor Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, and Professor of History and the SNF Agora Institute at The Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Jones also serves as the Director of Hard Histories at Hopkins.
Dr. Paige Glotzer is part of a working group that has conducted research on Hopkins’ former president Isaiah Bowman (1935-1948), revealing his white supremacist and antisemitic views and actions. Dr. Jennie K. Williams has written critically about an endowed professorship at the university – the Caroline Donovan Professorship in English Literature – that was named for the wife of a prominent Maryland slave trader. That work, in part, led to JHU’s decision to re-name the professorship, pending court approval. Dr. Glotzer and Dr. Williams both completed their PhDs at JHU.
Date posted: April 6, 2024
Thank you so much to everyone who made the inaugural Who Owns Black Data Conference a reality!
You can watch Kinfolkology Co-Founder Jennie Williams’s presentation about the origins and evolution of the Oceans of Kinfolk Database here.
Pictured L to R: Brianna Doe, Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson, Dr. Jennie K. Williams, Zaria El-Fil and Sydney Howard.
Date posted: February 8, 2024
Kinfolkology Co-Founders Eola Lewis Dance and Jennie K. Williams visited the Houston Museum of African American Culture for a conversation on slavery, data, and descendant engagement.
Left to right (first photo): Dr. Sherwin Bryant, Director of the Center for African and African American Studies at Rice University; Eola Lewis Dance, Co-Founder of Kinfolkology and President and C.E.O. of the Montpelier Foundation; Dr. Jennie K. Williams, Co-Founder of Kinfolkology; Dr. Molly Morgan, Co-Director of the University Program in Museum and Cultural Heritage at Rice University. Left to right (second photo): Eola Lewis Dance; Melanie Lawson; and John Guess, CEO of the Houston Museum of African American Culture.
Date posted: January 21, 2024
Watch the recent IG live with Kinfolkology Co-Founders Dr. Jennie Williams and Eola Dance, along with LifexCode director Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson and scholar and Black feminist genius Dr. Brittney Cooper!
A conversation on genealogy, descendant engagement, slavery, data, the ethics of care, and reparations.
Thank you, Dr. Cooper and Dr. Johnson, for a powerful conversation, and for all you do.
Date posted: December 11, 2023
Kinfolkology Co-Founders Eola Lewis Dance and Jennie K. Williams attended the Liberty and Legacy Reception hosted by Soledad O’Brien at her home in New York, on December 1, 2023.
The evening included conversations with thought leaders and organizations about the intertwined meanings of the ideals of liberty and legacy, especially in the context of descendant engagement at James Madison’s Montpelier.
Date posted: September 9, 2023
Kinfolkology Co-Founders Eola Lewis Dance and Jennie K. Williams participated in a roundtable discussion hosted by Hard Histories at Johns Hopkins University.
Kinfolkology is thrilled to welcome Dr. Karin Wulf to our Advisory Board!
Date posted: July 6, 2023.
Dr. Wulf is the Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director & Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library, and Professor of History at Brown University. A historian of gender, family, and politics in early British America, she writes for public and academic audiences about #VastEarlyAmerica, scholarly communications, and the humanities. Lineage: Genealogy and the Politics of Connection in Early America is forthcoming from Oxford University Press, as is Genealogy: A Very Short Introduction.
Date posted: June 28, 2023
