Assistant Professor of Sociology George Mason University
Amaka Okechukwu is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at George Mason University. Her research engages social movements, Black communities, and urban politics. She formerly served as the oral historian and associate archivist at Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. and as the project coordinator of the Voices of Crown Heights oral history collection and affiliated public engagement at Brooklyn Historical Society. She is the author of the award-winning To Fulfill These Rights: Political Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions.
Okechukwu’s AADHum project traces Black resistance during the urban crisis of the 1970s and 1980s. She believes that Black Digital Humanities is a promising site to engage broader publics in research on Black communities and Black resistance.
In December 2020, AADHum — The African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities at University of Maryland College Park — presented Black as X: Platforming Experimental Scholarship, our first AADHum Scholars Symposium for the 2020 cohort. In a series of conversations with noted Black Studies scholars, each scholar offered project demonstrations, discussed their project process, and speculated on future project iterations.
Join us in exploring the capaciousness of Black life through experimentation with digital methods.
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