Kinfolkology Institutional Partners
Kinfolkology partners with two transformative digital humanities projects: Black Beyond Data and Freedom on the Move.
Black Beyond Data is a computational humanities lab initiative led by Kinfolkology P.I. Jessica Marie Johnson (Johns Hopkins), Kim Gallon (Brown) and Alexandre White (Johns Hopkins). As a collaborative project rooted in Black Beyond Data’s “ecosystem of scholars, policy makers, medical professionals, technologists and community organizers invested in centering Black lives in data study,” Kinfolkology works in community and partnership with an array of transformative digital projects, including the Black Health Heritage Data Lab, Underwriting Souls, and the Black Press Research Initiative.
Freedom on the Move is a multi-institutional digital humanities project founded by Kinfolkology PI Edward E. Baptist (Cornell) and William C. Block (Cornell). The FOTM Database includes (at current count) 32,254 advertisements of fugitives from slavery: records which testify to enslaved people’s ingenuity, courage, and embodied resistance to slaveholders’ systems of control. Kinfolkology will digitally link Freedom on the Move to other digital repositories of information about enslaved people’s lives through our Data & Archival Defragmentation initiative.
