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School Protests in Africa is a dynamic digital scholarship project whose central premise revolves around resurfacing the frequency and prevalence of modern youth-led protests in Africa.
Led by Cassandra Hradil, Elliot Montpelier, and Deb Stewart, this workshop explored some of the existing intersections between anthropology and the digital humanities, as well as opportunities for cross-pollination.
The collaboration and camaraderie of working on Unstable Archives this summer felt like monsoons after a drought. As anticipated, I acquired or deepened all sorts of skills and helped produce a deliverable of which I’m proud. What I hadn’t seen coming was how the relationships integral to this labor helped heal my academic body after a year-plus of toiling mostly alone.
This summer, students from different disciplines gathered over Zoom to learn and work together on six digital humanities projects that are being supported by the Price Lab and Penn Libraries.