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Angel David Nieves, associate professor of Africana studies and co-director of the Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi) was awarded an NEH Office of Digital Humanities Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Summer Institutes Grant of $245,299 for “Space and Place in Africana/Black Studies: An Institute on Spatial Humanities Theories, Methods and Practice.” 

Angel David Nieves, associate professor of Africana studies and co-director of the Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi), presented “Digital Humanities as Restorative Social Justice: Virtual Heritage, 3D Reconstructions, and South Africa's Township Histories” on Oct. 29 at Amherst College.

Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi) co-directors Angel David Nieves and Janet Simons gave an invited presentation on April 28 at Amherst College. “Innovation and Sustainability in Digital Humanities” focused on collaboration among faculty, students, librarians and technologists to develop innovative approaches to digital humanities scholarship that are also sustainable models at liberal arts colleges.

Angel David Nieves, associate professor of Africana studies and co-director of the Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi), presented at the Fourth Digital Witness Symposium.

Angel David Nieves, associate professor of Africana studies and co-director of Hamilton’s Digital Humanities Initiative, recently attended the Summer Institute for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities. The three-week program was supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant.

Angel David Nieves, associate professor of Africana studies and co-director of the Digital Humanities Initiative, gave the opening keynote address on Feb. 19 at Austin College’s Digital Humanities Colloquium.

Associate Professor and Chair of Africana Studies Angel David Nieves presented a paper on a panel titled “From the Holocaust to Apartheid: Analyzing Geographies of Oppression,” at the Annual Association of American Geographers meeting Feb. 24-28 in New York City.

The School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, host of the April 19th social media conference #140cuse, has partnered with Hamilton College's Digital Humanities Initiative to bring a preview of the #140 conference to the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit on Wednesday, April 4, at 7 p.m.

Digital Humanities Initiative co-directors Angel David Nieves and Janet Simons presented at the annual American Association of Colleges and Universities 2012 meeting in Washington, D.C., in January. The presentation was titled "Curricular Connections to Humanities Research: DHi's CLASS Program."

Angel David Nieves, associate professor and chair of Africana Studies, was an invited speaker at the Mobility Shifts: An International Future of Learning Summit at the New School in New York City in October.  This international summit was comprised of a conference, project demonstrations, workshops, exhibitions and a theater performance.