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Catherine Knight Steele, Ph.D.
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Catherine Knight Steele is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland - College Park and 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. 

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Dr. Steele serves as the Director for the African American Digital Humanities Intiative (Synergies among Digital Humanities and African American History and Culture: An integrated research and training model). Funded by a $1.25 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundatio, AADHum fosters research, education and training at the intersections of digital humanities and African American studies, and will help to prepare a diverse community of scholars and students whose work will both broaden the reach of the digital humanities in African American history and cultural studies, and enrich humanities research with new methods, archives and tools.
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