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Meet the Team

Emory Team 

Jennifer Gunter King, Director (former), Rose Library, Principal Investigator 

Elizabeth Russey Roke, Archival technologies program manager, Emory Libraries, Principal Investigator

Erica Bruchko, Librarian for African American Studies and US history, Emory Libraries 

Clint Fluker, Senior Director of Culture, Community, and Partner Engagement, former curator of African American Collections, Rose Library;  

Richard Gess, (former) Serials coordinator, Emory Libraries 

Sara Palmer, Digital text specialist, Emory Center for Digital Scholarship

Advisory Board

Jim Casey, Assistant Research Professor of African American Studies, Penn State University; specialist in nineteenth-century African American Studies, periodicals, and print culture and Black digital humanities 

Rico D. Chapman, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of History, Jackson State University 

James P. Danky, editor, African American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography  

Amy E. Earhart, Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty of Africana Studies, Texas A&M University; author, “Digital Humanities and the Infrastructures of Race in African-American Literature”  

Eric Gardner, Professor of English, Saginaw Valley State University; author, Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature and Periodical Culture  

Vince Golden, Curator of Newspapers and Periodicals, American Antiquarian Society  

Michelle Gordon, Associate Teaching Professor of African American Studies, Emory University 

Meredith McGill, Professor of English, Rutgers University; co-director, Black Bibliography Project  

Timothy A. Thompson, Librarian for Applied Metadata Research, Yale University; Metadata Team, Black Bibliography Project 

And a special thank you to the 2024 Spring Semester of Emory’s Race, Gender, and Media Making class: 

Dr. Sarah Salter, Teaching Professor and Director of the Writing Program, Emory University 

The Wayfinder Project

The Wayfinder Project

The Wayfinder Project has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. 

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