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AFROPW-Leadership
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Ronald William Bailey
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Marilyn Thomas-Houston
Marilyn Thomas-Houston, Co-PI and Project Director for African American Studies Publishing Without Walls 2 (AFRO PWW2) UIUC Mellon grant and Co-PI for “Building Literacy and Curating Knowledge in Digital Humanities” (BLACK DH) NEH KU Grant; is Associate Professor Emerita at the University of Florida. She is Co-founding Editor with Daryl Michael Scott of the born-digital peer-reviewed journal, Fire!!!: The Multimedia Journal of Black Studies, published by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) and formerly distributed by JSTOR. Her publications include, ‘Stony the Road’ to Change: Black Mississippians and the Culture of Social Relations published by Cambridge University Press, the edited volume, Homing Devices: The Poor as Targets of Public Housing Policy and Practice published by Lexington Books, and Sustaining Black Studies in the 21st Century, a special edition of the International Journal of Africana Studies published by the National Council for Black Studies (link to digital edition). She is a Fulbright Scholar who spent more than 10 years studying the descendants of Black Loyalists, Refugees from the War of 1812, and Jamaica Maroons in Nova Scotia, Canada, and produced a two-part series, From These Roots, on the lives of a Black basketweaving family in that province. Other digital work includes iBlack Studies, a multimodal project that introduces readers to the interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary field of Black Studies. It is an archival base for digitized materials and publications documenting the field and the Black experience.