Reckonings Summer Institute 2023

The Reckonings Project builds collaborations with community partners, faculty, and students to empower BIPOC communities and residents in the preservation, creation, and curation of their community histories. The Summer Institute 2023 fostered methods for and practical application of co-creation and co-curation among community organizations and college teachers across the Boston and New England region.

Please view this recap video from the June 2023 Summer Institute and visit the Reckonings Summer Institute 2023 site for more information, including about participants and their projects, as well as some introductory modules for work with digital tools.

Project Leads

Ángel David Nieves

Professor of Africana Studies, History, and Digital Humanities; Director of Public Humanities

Ángel David Nieves is Professor of Africana Studies, History, and Digital Humanities in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities (CSSH) at Northeastern University and is an Affiliate Professor in the Department of English and in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs.

Dorothy Kim

Co-Director, Reckonings Summer Institute; Assistant Professor of English, Brandeis

Dorothy Kim teaches Medieval Literature at Brandeis University. Her research focuses on race, gender, digital humanities, medieval women’s literary cultures, medievalism, Jewish/Christian difference, book history, digital media, and the alt-right. She was a 2013-2014 Fellow at the University of Michigan’s Frankel Institute of Advanced Judaic Studies where she drafted a monograph entitled Jewish/Christian Entanglements: Ancrene Wisse and its Material Worlds (under submission, University of Penn Press).