Week 04
Data
What is spatial data and where does it come from? How should you understand spatial data in their social, political, and ethical context?
Slides
| Topic | Date | Link |
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Data |
February 10, 2026 |
Check out Meghan Kelly’s work about feminist icons:
Lab
| Title | Subtitle | Date Assigned | Date Due |
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| Lab 02 | Visualizing the Transatlantic Slave Trade | Feb 10, 2026 | Feb 17, 2026 |
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Reading
As part of Lab 02, you’ll read excerpts from the following pieces:
For the curious, additional reading includes:
| Topic | Date |
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| Week 04 | Tue, Feb 17 |
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References
Bouie, Jamelle. 2022. “We Still Can’t See American Slavery for What It Was.” The New York Times, January. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/opinion/slavery-voyages-data-sets.html.
Fuentes, Marisa Joanna. 2016. Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive. 1st ed. Early American Studies. PENN University of Pennsylvania Press.
Johnson, Jessica Marie. 2022. Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World. University of Pennsylvania Press.
Kelly, Meghan. 2021. “Mapping Bodies, Designing Feminist Icons.” GeoHumanities 7 (2): 529–57. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2021.1883455.
Kelly, Meghan. 2023. “The Gallery of Possibilities.” The Professional Geographer 75 (4): 663–75. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2023.2169174.
McKittrick, Katherine. 2014. “Mathematics Black Life.” The Black Scholar 44 (2): 16–28. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5816/blackscholar.44.2.0016.
Melissa Dinsman. 2016. “The Digital in the Humanities: An Interview with Jessica Marie Johnson.” Los Angeles Review of Books, July. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/digital-humanities-interview-jessica-marie-johnson.
Morgan, Jennifer L. 2021. Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478021452.