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Curating The Liberal Arts: High-Impact Approaches To Teaching Medical Humanities In The Archives, Alyssa Culp, Liz Bloodworth Oct 2026

Curating The Liberal Arts: High-Impact Approaches To Teaching Medical Humanities In The Archives, Alyssa Culp, Liz Bloodworth

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

This article emphasizes high-impact practices in the archives and encourages instructors and archivists to use prolonged collaboration as a way to teach digital learners analog thinking. The digital and physical exhibits we discuss were designed to model liberal arts thinking and curate experiential learning opportunities that led students to make connections between artifacts and lived experiences. Our case study focuses on one course developed with sustained archival interaction, which demonstrates an effective use of archives for promoting active learning through direct engagement with primary source materials in a liberal arts environment and thereby serves as an example of partnership for …

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Earthly Alienization And Galactic Othering: How Star Wars Holistically Reimagines American History And Constructs A Pipeline To Christian-Imperial Humanitarianism, Taylor Valci Aug 2026

Earthly Alienization And Galactic Othering: How Star Wars Holistically Reimagines American History And Constructs A Pipeline To Christian-Imperial Humanitarianism, Taylor Valci

Effervescence: Yale Divinity School's Student Journal of Religion

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, the future of religion looks remarkably familiar. This essay argues that Star Wars offers a holistic reimagining of American racial formation in a speculative interstellar setting, translating historical practices of othering and alienization into the galaxy’s social and religious order. Across the Skywalker Saga (1977–2019), the Jedi Order functions as a galactic priesthood whose moral universalism authorizes intervention, governance, and salvation across the cosmos. Drawing on American religious history, critical race theory, migration studies, humanitarianism, and imperial studies, I show how alien species, racialized language, colorblind representation, and sacred bloodlines …

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Theologians, Political Influencers, Organizers, Founding Mothers, White Feminists: Evangelicalism Recast As Revolution, Through The Life Works Of Hannah More And Phyllis Schlafly, Taylor Valci Aug 2026

Theologians, Political Influencers, Organizers, Founding Mothers, White Feminists: Evangelicalism Recast As Revolution, Through The Life Works Of Hannah More And Phyllis Schlafly, Taylor Valci

Effervescence: Yale Divinity School's Student Journal of Religion

Nearly two hundred years and an ocean apart, Hannah More and Phyllis Schlafly occupied the same impossible set of roles: theologians, political influencers, organizers, founding mothers, and white feminists. What they shared most deeply, however, was evangelicalism. This essay argues that their life works require evangelicalism to be recast not as a stable denominational throughline, but as a reactionary religious revolution: a recurring form of conservative Christian mobilization that emerges when national security and Christian order are perceived as threatened by secularization, women’s expanding public authority, revolution, or global disorder. Read comparatively, More and Schlafly reveal how evangelical women turned …

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Strengthening The Holy Athlete: Lay Ascesis And Athletics In The Works Of John Chrysostom, Stephanie R. Roston Aug 2026

Strengthening The Holy Athlete: Lay Ascesis And Athletics In The Works Of John Chrysostom, Stephanie R. Roston

Effervescence: Yale Divinity School's Student Journal of Religion

Contemporary fitness influencers often compel their audiences by appealing to the felt connection between physical and moral-spiritual conditioning, but this was also true for John Chrysostom and his attending congregations in late antiquity. Chrysostom believed that body and soul might be brought into healthy, transparent alignment through the cultivation of embodied training grounds for virtue, and he repeatedly utilized athletic imagery in his homilies and baptismal liturgy to emphasize that the cognitive attention necessary for such work is strengthened over time through repeated physical regimens such as fasting and vigils. Warning against hypocrisy, he looked to athletes and ascetics for …

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Raising History From The Grave: Reparative Archival Pedagogy, International Virtual Exchange, And Community Engagement, Antonia Macdonald, Leah Rosenberg Aug 2026

Raising History From The Grave: Reparative Archival Pedagogy, International Virtual Exchange, And Community Engagement, Antonia Macdonald, Leah Rosenberg

archipelagos: a journal of Caribbean digital praxis

This article brings together three threads in digital pedagogy: international virtual exchange, archival recovery work, and reparative pedagogy to argue that their convergence generates a transformative framework for reimaging critical archival practice and transnational collaborations. Our argument is supported by two related pedagogical projects that we undertook. The first is a collaboration with Pan Caribbean Sankofa (PCS) and the Panama Canal Museum Collection (PCMC) at the University of Florida (UF). The second is a collaborative online international learning (COIL) exchange that took place between two undergraduate classes at a university in the Eastern Caribbean and UF. Both initiatives were grounded …

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Measure By Measure: Reflections On Building A Quiz Map For Critical Caribbean Digital Pedagogy, Ra Bacchus, Medardo G. Rosario, Alexander S. Butler Aug 2026

Measure By Measure: Reflections On Building A Quiz Map For Critical Caribbean Digital Pedagogy, Ra Bacchus, Medardo G. Rosario, Alexander S. Butler

archipelagos: a journal of Caribbean digital praxis

This article reflects on the web development of a digital quiz map designed to help students critically engage with the representation of the Caribbean in digital space. Emerging from workshops organized by Visiones del Caribe—a digital humanities initiative using digitized maps and archives to teach Caribbean history, culture, and cartography—this tool responds to students’ inquiries about the region’s spatial boundaries. The quiz invites students to select on a map those countries and territories they consider part of the Caribbean, prompting reflection on the diversity of perspectives shaping Caribbean identity. Drawing from the discourse of critical cartography and digital pedagogy, we …

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Tun Up: Building Digital Dancehall Fashion Archives From An Artist’S Perspective, Grayson Chong Aug 2026

Tun Up: Building Digital Dancehall Fashion Archives From An Artist’S Perspective, Grayson Chong

archipelagos: a journal of Caribbean digital praxis

This article investigates the opportunities and challenges of building a dancehall fashion archive with particular emphasis on the transition from the material to the digital. As an artist-scholar, I use my own dancehall fashion collection as a case study to explore the process of digitizing material artifacts (in this case, fashion and textiles). I focus on dancehall fashion in particular because it speaks to themes of resistance, self-fashioning, and creativity in the global fashion market. Throughout the article, I highlight what the transition between material and digital affords scholars and public audiences. In particular, I ask: "How do we retain …

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Acervos Documentales De Puerto Rico Y El Caribe @ Upr-Río Piedras: On Designing Digital Strategies For Preservation And Access Of Unique Puerto Rican And Caribbean Studies Collections, Mirerza González-Vélez, Mila Aponte-González Aug 2026

Acervos Documentales De Puerto Rico Y El Caribe @ Upr-Río Piedras: On Designing Digital Strategies For Preservation And Access Of Unique Puerto Rican And Caribbean Studies Collections, Mirerza González-Vélez, Mila Aponte-González

archipelagos: a journal of Caribbean digital praxis

This paper documents Acervos Digitales de Puerto Rico y el Caribe @ UPR-Río Piedras, its origins, goals, activities and participants. It reflects on the team engagement with fundamental discussions regarding the use of Omeka in a Caribbean context, that resulted in the articulation and enactment of ethical principles for digital curation, as well as in its commitment for fundamental digital preservation efforts based on minimal technology requirements. The paper also provides an assessment of its continuity as a DH initiative committed to preserving, improving open access, and building capacity for the effective use of unique digitized humanities collections, and poses …

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Digital Research Tools, Newspaper Texts, And Enslaved Fugitives In The Atlantic World, Gunvor Simonsen, Natacha Klein Käfer, Heather Freund, Felicia J. Fricke Aug 2026

Digital Research Tools, Newspaper Texts, And Enslaved Fugitives In The Atlantic World, Gunvor Simonsen, Natacha Klein Käfer, Heather Freund, Felicia J. Fricke

archipelagos: a journal of Caribbean digital praxis

This article demonstrates the benefits and pitfalls of utilizing Natural Language Processing to structure a large corpus of newspaper adverts on fugitive enslaved people from the Atlantic World between 1766 and 1821. We evaluate a model for multilingual event extraction trained specifically for fugitive ads and jail lists in its capacity to extract correctly the attributes relevant for historical analysis. Finally, we discuss how the current model may be used to expand and qualify databases concerning enslaved fugitives in the eastern Caribbean.

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Tracing Caribbean Narratives At The Intersection Of Language, Identity, And Social Media, Juan-Carlos M.E. Goilo Aug 2026

Tracing Caribbean Narratives At The Intersection Of Language, Identity, And Social Media, Juan-Carlos M.E. Goilo

archipelagos: a journal of Caribbean digital praxis

This article delves into how the creole language of Papiamentu navigates the complexities of cultural identity and decolonial praxis within the social media landscape. Drawing from literature reviews, digital ethnography, content analysis, and an interview with social media influencer Gerald Lijde, I explore Papiamentu’s deep-rooted colonial ambivalence—a legacy that shapes its contemporary online use. While digital platforms offer new avenues for celebrating and formalizing Papiamentu, they also risk commodifying its radical, anti-colonial roots into tourist-friendly narratives. By linking online content production to theories of agency and digital culture, the article illuminates Papiamentu’s enduring role as a vessel of resistance and …

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A Metadata Analysis Of Anthropological Scholarship About Haiti And The Dominican Republic, Tess Kulstad González, Pauline Kulstad González, Zoe Grubbs, Hongyuan Zhang Aug 2026

A Metadata Analysis Of Anthropological Scholarship About Haiti And The Dominican Republic, Tess Kulstad González, Pauline Kulstad González, Zoe Grubbs, Hongyuan Zhang

archipelagos: a journal of Caribbean digital praxis

This article presents the results of a metadata and content analysis of anthropological research about Haiti and the Dominican Republic available in the Anthropological Literature database and in the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. This analysis shows that anthropological knowledge about Haiti and/or the Dominican Republic, produced in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, is included less than scholarship published outside the island. In addition, our analysis indicates that research that pertains to both countries, or that considers transnational and/or inter-island processes has been infrequent. Furthermore, that which exists is not as discoverable or visible as research that focuses …

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Infrastructure Of Lack: Defining Caribbean Vernacular Networks, Luis Rivera Jiménez Aug 2026

Infrastructure Of Lack: Defining Caribbean Vernacular Networks, Luis Rivera Jiménez

archipelagos: a journal of Caribbean digital praxis

This article offers a theoretical reflection on the forms and meanings of networks in the Caribbean, moving beyond traditional definitions rooted in computation and formal infrastructure. By turning to vernacular, improvised, and culturally embedded modes of exchange—such as in "Club Nintendo" culture and BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) in the Dominican Republic, the DIY internet practices of Cuban users, and the ubiquity of memes and WhatsApp threads across diasporic communities—this piece reframes the concept of the “network” through a Caribbean lens. Rather than seeing the Caribbean as disconnected or technologically incipient, this approach understands the region as a space of creative, strategic, …

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A Case For Societal Provenance: Marguerite Harper As Told By The Men She Represented, V. Emily Cranwell Deinert Aug 2026

A Case For Societal Provenance: Marguerite Harper As Told By The Men She Represented, V. Emily Cranwell Deinert

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

This paper argues for making societal provenance the grounding framework for archival descriptive standards to ensure that important voices already present in archives are no longer buried. This study reclaims from archival obscurity the career of literary agent Marguerite E. Harper to illustrate the need for this expansion. Harper proves strikingly absent from some of the archives for the authors she represented. Likely an unwitting omission from archivists that uncritically accepted the narratives of these male authors, Harper’s erasure provides a potent example of the ways that archival descriptive standards may unintentionally further silence historically marginalized voices within archives. The …

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Stand On The Sea Of Glass, Carl Diton Jul 2026

Stand On The Sea Of Glass, Carl Diton

Gullah Geechee Spirituals Project

This spiritual was included in the 1928 edition of "Thirty-six South Carolina Spirituals" by Carl Diton, on page 38, item 21. It was transcribed based on the oral tradition of St. Helena Island in present day Beaufort County, South Carolina. The transcription is credited to Diton.

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Fisherman Peter, Carl Diton Jul 2026

Fisherman Peter, Carl Diton

Gullah Geechee Spirituals Project

This spiritual was included in the 1928 edition of "Thirty-six South Carolina Spirituals" by Carl Diton, on page 37, item 20. It was transcribed based on the oral tradition of St. Helena Island in present day Beaufort County, South Carolina. The transcription is credited to Diton.

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Road Is Rugged, But I Must Go, Carl Diton Jul 2026

Road Is Rugged, But I Must Go, Carl Diton

Gullah Geechee Spirituals Project

This spiritual was included in the 1928 edition of "Thirty-six South Carolina Spirituals" by Carl Diton, on pages 32-35, item 18. It was transcribed based on the oral tradition of St. Helena Island in present day Beaufort County, South Carolina. The transcription is credited to Diton.

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Way In The Heaven Bye-And-Bye, Carl Diton Jul 2026

Way In The Heaven Bye-And-Bye, Carl Diton

Gullah Geechee Spirituals Project

This spiritual was included in the 1928 edition of "Thirty-six South Carolina Spirituals" by Carl Diton, on page 23, item 11. It was transcribed based on the oral tradition of St. Helena Island in present day Beaufort County, South Carolina. The transcription is credited to Diton.

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Walk In Jerusalm, Just Like John, Carl Diton Jul 2026

Walk In Jerusalm, Just Like John, Carl Diton

Gullah Geechee Spirituals Project

This spiritual was included in the 1928 edition of "Thirty-six South Carolina Spirituals" by Carl Diton, on page 50, item 33. It was transcribed based on the oral tradition of St. Helena Island in present day Beaufort County, South Carolina. The transcription is credited to Diton.

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I'M A-Going To Eat At The Welcome Table, Carl Diton Jul 2026

I'M A-Going To Eat At The Welcome Table, Carl Diton

Gullah Geechee Spirituals Project

This spiritual was included in the 1928 edition of "Thirty-six South Carolina Spirituals" by Carl Diton, on page 22, item 10. It was transcribed based on the oral tradition of St. Helena Island in present day Beaufort County, South Carolina. The transcription is credited to Diton.

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Never Leave Me Alone, Carl Diton Jul 2026

Never Leave Me Alone, Carl Diton

Gullah Geechee Spirituals Project

This spiritual was included in the 1928 edition of "Thirty-six South Carolina Spirituals" by Carl Diton, on page 26, item 13. It was transcribed based on the oral tradition of St. Helena Island in present day Beaufort County, South Carolina. The transcription is credited to Diton.

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Some Will Lub Yo' And Some Will Yate Yo', Nicholas George Julius Ballanta-Taylor Jul 2026

Some Will Lub Yo' And Some Will Yate Yo', Nicholas George Julius Ballanta-Taylor

Gullah Geechee Spirituals Project

This spiritual was included in the 1925 edition of "Saint Helena Island Spirituals" by Ballanta-Taylor, on page 68, item 82. It was transcribed based on the oral tradition of St. Helena Island in present day Beaufort County, South Carolina. The transcription is credited to Ballanta-Taylor.

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Go Round, Go Round, Nicholas George Julius Ballanta-Taylor Jul 2026

Go Round, Go Round, Nicholas George Julius Ballanta-Taylor

Gullah Geechee Spirituals Project

This spiritual was included in the 1925 edition of "Saint Helena Island Spirituals" by Ballanta-Taylor, on page 27, item 25. It was transcribed based on the oral tradition of St. Helena Island in present day Beaufort County, South Carolina. The transcription is credited to Ballanta-Taylor.

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T'Ree Long Nights And T'Ree Long Days, Nicholas George Julius Ballanta-Taylor Jul 2026

T'Ree Long Nights And T'Ree Long Days, Nicholas George Julius Ballanta-Taylor

Gullah Geechee Spirituals Project

This spiritual was included in the 1925 edition of "Saint Helena Island Spirituals" by Ballanta-Taylor, on page 47, item 57. It was transcribed based on the oral tradition of St. Helena Island in present day Beaufort County, South Carolina. The transcription is credited to Ballanta-Taylor.

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O Watch De Stars, Nicholas George Julius Ballanta-Taylor Jul 2026

O Watch De Stars, Nicholas George Julius Ballanta-Taylor

Gullah Geechee Spirituals Project

This spiritual was included in the 1925 edition of "Saint Helena Island Spirituals" by Ballanta-Taylor, on pages 58-59, item 71. It was transcribed based on the oral tradition of St. Helena Island in present day Beaufort County, South Carolina. The transcription is credited to Ballanta-Taylor.

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Mary Had A Baby (No.3), Nicholas George Julius Ballanta-Taylor Jul 2026

Mary Had A Baby (No.3), Nicholas George Julius Ballanta-Taylor

Gullah Geechee Spirituals Project

This spiritual was included in the 1925 edition of "Saint Helena Island Spirituals" by Ballanta-Taylor, on page 41, item 48. It was transcribed based on the oral tradition of St. Helena Island in present day Beaufort County, South Carolina. The transcription is credited to Ballanta-Taylor.

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Daniel In De Lion's Den, Nicholas George Julius Ballanta-Taylor Jul 2026

Daniel In De Lion's Den, Nicholas George Julius Ballanta-Taylor

Gullah Geechee Spirituals Project

This spiritual was included in the 1925 edition of "Saint Helena Island Spirituals" by Ballanta-Taylor, on page 42, item 50. It was transcribed based on the oral tradition of St. Helena Island in present day Beaufort County, South Carolina. The transcription is credited to Ballanta-Taylor.

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Sweet Watuh Rollin', Nicholas George Julius Ballanta-Taylor Jul 2026

Sweet Watuh Rollin', Nicholas George Julius Ballanta-Taylor

Gullah Geechee Spirituals Project

This spiritual was included in the 1925 edition of "Saint Helena Island Spirituals" by Ballanta-Taylor, on page 49, item 59. It was transcribed based on the oral tradition of St. Helena Island in present day Beaufort County, South Carolina. The transcription is credited to Ballanta-Taylor.

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Yo' Better Run To De City Of Refuge, Nicholas George Julius Ballanta-Taylor Jul 2026

Yo' Better Run To De City Of Refuge, Nicholas George Julius Ballanta-Taylor

Gullah Geechee Spirituals Project

This spiritual was included in the 1925 edition of "Saint Helena Island Spirituals" by Ballanta-Taylor, on page 44, item 53. It was transcribed based on the oral tradition of St. Helena Island in present day Beaufort County, South Carolina. The transcription is credited to Ballanta-Taylor.

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All Obuh Dis World, Nicholas George Julius Ballanta-Taylor Jul 2026

All Obuh Dis World, Nicholas George Julius Ballanta-Taylor

Gullah Geechee Spirituals Project

This spiritual was included in the 1925 edition of "Saint Helena Island Spirituals" by Ballanta-Taylor, on page 50, item 62. It was transcribed based on the oral tradition of St. Helena Island in present day Beaufort County, South Carolina. The transcription is credited to Ballanta-Taylor.

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Holy, Holy, Yo' Promise To Answer Prayer, Nicholas George Julius Ballanta-Taylor Jul 2026

Holy, Holy, Yo' Promise To Answer Prayer, Nicholas George Julius Ballanta-Taylor

Gullah Geechee Spirituals Project

This spiritual was included in the 1925 edition of "Saint Helena Island Spirituals" by Ballanta-Taylor, on page 14, item 12. It was transcribed based on the oral tradition of St. Helena Island in present day Beaufort County, South Carolina. The transcription is credited to Ballanta-Taylor.

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