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