Keynote Address

In November, Professor Margaret Burnham, director of the law school’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project and faculty co-director of the Center for Law, Equity and Race, delivered the keynote address at the annual scholarship celebration of Northeastern University’s Digital Scholarship Group and the NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science. This year, the event featured the launch of the new Centers for Digital Scholarship, a hub for digital research and teaching at the university.

“The librarians who now lead the Centers for Digital Scholarship rendered our research analyzing the history of racial violence accessible to users all over the world, not just by digitizing thousands of documents but also by developing a unique data dictionary and through the creative application of interactive data visualization,” said Burnham, referring to the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive, a resource dedicated to identifying, classifying and providing facts and documentation about anti-Black killings in the mid-century South.

“Without this partnership with the library, we would not have reached the communities most affected by these atrocities nor been able to tell a comprehensive and compelling story. These folks are among the best in their field, and it has been an extraordinary collaboration,” said Burnham.