Join the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities for this lecture with Professor Kim Gallon on “Mapping the Racial and Geospatial Life and Death of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Presented as part of GIS Day @ IU 2021.
EVENT ABSTRACT
This talk is an exploration of the issues embedded in geospatial analysis of race and mortality in COVID. It argues that GIS as a tool both fosters and limits deeper understanding about the roles of race and racism in the disproportionate impact of COVID on Black people.PROFESSOR GALLON’S BIO:
Kim Gallon is an Associate Professor of History. Her work investigates the cultural dimensions of the Black Press in the early twentieth century. She is the author of many articles and essays as well as the book, Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press (University of Illinois Press, 2020). Gallon is currently at work on two new book projects—Technologies of Recovery: Black DH, Theory and Praxis (University of Illinois Press), a book about the black digital humanities as a site of resistance and liberation and a book titled, Fiction for the Harassed and Frustrated, which examines the role and significance of popular literary expression in the Black Press in the early twentieth century (Johns Hopkins University Press). She currently serves as the inaugural editor for the Black Press in America book series at Johns Hopkins University Press.
Gallon is also the author of the field defining article, “Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities” and the founder and director of two black digital humanities projects: The Black Press Research Collective and COVID Black She also serves on a number of digital advisory boards for digital humanities projects and grants.