With the commencement of the Ethnic Studies requirement in the General Education program, the DH@CSU Consortium is working actively to build a purposeful collaboration between Digital Humanities and Ethnic Studies. The Consortium is hopeful that Ethnic Studies’s embracing of community engagement and focus on underrepresented voices can be augmented and enhanced by the methodologies and approaches of Digital Humanities. To this end, DH@CSU has recently received a Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) award, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to build institutional capacity at the intersection of Digital Humanities and Ethnic Studies. The DEFCon award is an opportunity to explore this intersection, as it will allow the Consortium to expand membership by identifying additional Ethnic Studies faculty with interest in the Digital Humanities and create a network to connect them across disparate campuses. [See MOU where some of the language can be used in this area.]
If you are interested in becoming involved in the Consortium’s ongoing activities in advancing Digital Ethnic Studies, please contact Jamila Moore Pewu, CSUF DEFCon Director, and Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and New Media in History, CSU Fullerton (jmoorepewu@fullerton.edu).