Alexander named Fall 2024 Digital Humanities Fellow
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Alexander named Fall 2024 Digital Humanities Fellow
May 1, 2024
The Denbo Center is pleased to announce that Jamal-Jared Alexander has been named as our Fall 2024 Digital Humanities Faculty Fellow. The fellowship helps UT a faculty member optimize work toward a significant investigative DH project by awarding a one-semester leave for concentrated research with residency at the DCHA.
Alexander is an assistant professor in the UT Department of English. He is a social justice researcher trained in qualitative methodology. His research includes the rhetoric of health & medicine, as well as DEI recruitment and retention. He will use his fellowship semester at the Denbo Center to build a social action toolkit using the tenets of Black Feminist Thought (BFT) and shared equity leadership (SEL), a methodological approach that consists of combining both individual and organizational transformation to drive positive cultural and systematic change within an organization.
Alexander plans to work closely with multiple groups across campus to learn of their needs, and he hopes his data-based toolkit ultimately will “help UT stakeholders take action from a place that makes them comfortable, accountable, and able to engage in socially-just practices and initiatives.”