The journey to conceptualizing this special issue started in a summer seminar organized by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). Since 2004, through its postdoctoral fellowship program, CLIR has recruited, trained, and established cohorts of talented researchers steeped in the materials and methods of their disciplines for work in libraries and cultural organizations. In recent years, the program has endeavored to advance a sophisticated understanding of production, management, and re-use of research data and to contribute to a sustainable infrastructure for future research. Beginning in 2019, CLIR initiated the recruitment of postdoctoral researchers with a focus on methods and processes pertaining to the execution of research in African American and African Studies. The Data Curation Fellowships for African American and African Studies (AAAS) provided an opportunity for scholars to explore AAAS in the digital world and to contribute to the curation of data using approaches that are mindful of issues such as privilege, identity, access, erasure, privacy, and technology.
Editors’ Choice: DHQ Special Issue–Digital Sankofa: Understanding the Past and Futures of Black Digital Humanities
