Journal Articles & Book Chapters by Angel David Nieves
Drs. Marla Jaksch (TCNJ; DHi Networked Faculty Fellow) and Angel David Nieves (DHi) are special g... more Drs. Marla Jaksch (TCNJ; DHi Networked Faculty Fellow) and Angel David Nieves (DHi) are special guest editors for Issue 6 (2014) of the Journal for Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, “Intersections of Heritage, Development, Digital Technologies, & Pedagogy in Africa & the African Diaspora.” Recent scholarship in development studies has highlighted the importance of new digital technologies as tools for furthering social justice while at the same time revealing continued economic and educational inequalities across the African Diaspora. The introductory essay, written by Jaksch and Nieves, “Africa is a Country? Digital Diasporas, ICTs, and Heritage Development Strategies for Social Justice,” provides a useful framework for readers unfamiliar with these emerging research practices.
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Grants by Angel David Nieves
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Hamilton College a second grant for $800,000 in suppo... more The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Hamilton College a second grant for $800,000 in support of the Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi), a research and teaching collaboration in which new media and computing technologies are used to promote humanities-based research, scholarship, and teaching – including curriculum development – across the liberal arts. As DHi builds on the curricular integration achieved in our first three years, it will delve more deeply into new models for teaching information management, metadata schema, and collection development in the liberal arts. The second $800,000 grant allows DHi to pursue an array of multi-institutional and collaborative scholarly programs while also continuing to develop its model for a sustainable digital infrastructure. Over the next three-year grant period (2013-2016), DHi will build an Innovation Lab for interdisciplinary digital scholarship, a series of faculty-led Working Groups in areas of research expertise, an open source humanities consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges (LACs), and a student-driven laboratory and project development space that focuses on gaming and interactive media.
Despite an abundance of 3D virtual environments that have emerged over the past decade, the impac... more Despite an abundance of 3D virtual environments that have emerged over the past decade, the impact of historical character modeling in the digital humanities has received little scholarly attention. Instead, when characters are used, emphasis often tends to be on the constructed space with less attention to the modeling of the characters themselves and how they impact the viewer. Avatars now have the potential to become increasingly realistic, presenting many conceptually significant choices as we create them. This proposal addresses this need through the development of a comprehensive typology for avatar creation, and deployment of representative avatars in two Unity environments chosen because of their difficult heritage. We will then study responses to different representative avatars within these environments using tools drawn from experimental philosophy, culminating in a symposium that invites discussion and peer
review of descriptive, empirical, and normative aspects of the project. The proceedings will then be published in an edited volume that will be an important contribution to the field as more digital humanities projects reach maturity.
Books by Angel David Nieves
With twenty chapters from leading scholars in African American history, urban studies, architectu... more With twenty chapters from leading scholars in African American history, urban studies, architecture, women's studies, American studies, and city planning, "We Shall Independent Be " illuminates African Americans' efforts to claim space in American society despite often hostile resistance. As these essays attest, Black self-determination was central to the methods African Americans employed in their quest to establish a sense of permanence and place in the United States.
Contributors define space to include physical, social, and intellectual sites throughout the Northern and Southern regions of the United States, ranging from urban milieus to the suburbs and even to swamps and forests. They explore under-represented locations such as burial grounds, courtrooms, schools, and churches. Moreover, contributors demonstrate how Black consciousness and ideology challenged key concepts of American democracy - such as freedom, justice, citizenship, and equality - establishing African American space in social and intellectual areas.
Ultimately, "We Shall Independent Be " recovers the voices of African American men and women from the antebellum United States through the present and chronicles their quest to assert their right to a place in American society. By identifying, examining, and telling the stories of contested sites, this volume demonstrates the power of African American self-definition and agency in the process of staking a physical and ideological claim to public space. (ISBN: 978-0-87081-906-3 )
Recent Invited Talks by Angel David Nieves
Papers by Angel David Nieves
Technology-Centered Academic Library Partnerships and Collaborations, 2000
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International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 2005
... quest to pre-serve the memory of the Civil War as he believed it should be remembered by both... more ... quest to pre-serve the memory of the Civil War as he believed it should be remembered by both Blacks and the larger nation as a ... the 1870s Douglass felt that the country was suffering from some form of collective amnesia, or that many Americans were simply 'destitute of [any ...
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... 18 Ndlovu, The Soweto Uprisings; Brink et al., Recollected 25 Years Later; Hlonwane et al., S... more ... 18 Ndlovu, The Soweto Uprisings; Brink et al., Recollected 25 Years Later; Hlonwane et al., Soweto 76; Mashabela, A People On the ... that African/black people have not for instance appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and been pardoned for their ...
Last year I began a collaborative project with students in the Department of Geography at Middleb... more Last year I began a collaborative project with students in the Department of Geography at Middlebury College to build a historical GIS database drawn from a collection of thirty-nine largely unseen maps, architectural plans and drawings discovered at the National Archives in Pretoria, South Africa. The Soweto Historical GIS Project (SHGIS) seeks to build a multi-layered historical geographic information system database that explores the social, economic and political dimensions of urban development under South African apartheid regimes (1904-1994) in Johannesburg's all-black township of Soweto. Soweto (an acronym for the South Western Townships), a creation of state power, was developed to house low-wage workers and to segregate black South Africans from white. No African Studies scholars to date have examined Soweto using historical GIS during the apartheid era. Much of the previous scholarship using GIS has focused on reconstruction during the post-apartheid era. The applicati...
Thesis (M.A.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Department of Anthropology, 1996. Incl... more Thesis (M.A.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Department of Anthropology, 1996. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-99).
On the morning of June 16, 1976, Black African students marching to protest the adoption of Afrik... more On the morning of June 16, 1976, Black African students marching to protest the adoption of Afrikaans as the primary language of instruction for schools in Johannesburg’s “South Western Townships” (Soweto) were gunned downed by members of the South African police and security forces. The physical backdrop to these events, the so-called “model native township” of Soweto, was made-up of a series of systematically planned would-be South African garden cities with the primary purpose of reinforcing the powers and capacities of the state system of apartheid. Physical spaces such as these, built under apartheid, have been providing the social, political and economic context for Black urban life since the founding of Johannesburg in 1886 to the present. However, few studies have considered the historical significance of these townships as extant physical artifacts of a difficult past. This is particularly timely as townships now face complex heritage issues and the concurrent pressures of ...
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Journal Articles & Book Chapters by Angel David Nieves
Grants by Angel David Nieves
review of descriptive, empirical, and normative aspects of the project. The proceedings will then be published in an edited volume that will be an important contribution to the field as more digital humanities projects reach maturity.
Books by Angel David Nieves
Contributors define space to include physical, social, and intellectual sites throughout the Northern and Southern regions of the United States, ranging from urban milieus to the suburbs and even to swamps and forests. They explore under-represented locations such as burial grounds, courtrooms, schools, and churches. Moreover, contributors demonstrate how Black consciousness and ideology challenged key concepts of American democracy - such as freedom, justice, citizenship, and equality - establishing African American space in social and intellectual areas.
Ultimately, "We Shall Independent Be " recovers the voices of African American men and women from the antebellum United States through the present and chronicles their quest to assert their right to a place in American society. By identifying, examining, and telling the stories of contested sites, this volume demonstrates the power of African American self-definition and agency in the process of staking a physical and ideological claim to public space. (ISBN: 978-0-87081-906-3 )
Recent Invited Talks by Angel David Nieves
Papers by Angel David Nieves
review of descriptive, empirical, and normative aspects of the project. The proceedings will then be published in an edited volume that will be an important contribution to the field as more digital humanities projects reach maturity.
Contributors define space to include physical, social, and intellectual sites throughout the Northern and Southern regions of the United States, ranging from urban milieus to the suburbs and even to swamps and forests. They explore under-represented locations such as burial grounds, courtrooms, schools, and churches. Moreover, contributors demonstrate how Black consciousness and ideology challenged key concepts of American democracy - such as freedom, justice, citizenship, and equality - establishing African American space in social and intellectual areas.
Ultimately, "We Shall Independent Be " recovers the voices of African American men and women from the antebellum United States through the present and chronicles their quest to assert their right to a place in American society. By identifying, examining, and telling the stories of contested sites, this volume demonstrates the power of African American self-definition and agency in the process of staking a physical and ideological claim to public space. (ISBN: 978-0-87081-906-3 )