Catherine Knight Steele Ph.D.

About

Catherine Knight Steele is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland - College Park and was the first the Director of the Andrew W. Mellon funded African American Digital Humanities Initiative (AADHum). She earned her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on race, gender and media with specific focus on African American culture and discourse in traditional and new media. She examines representations of marginalized communities in the media and how traditionally marginalized populations resist oppression and utilize online technology to create spaces of community.

Dr. Steele is available to lectures and workshops at your institution on the topics of : Online Community, Digital Methods, Ethics in DH and in digital studies, Black discursive communities, Digital Black Feminism, Race and Media, Black culture online, Programming and Administration in Digital Humanities

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