Constructing Liberatory and Feminist Frameworks in DH Experiential Learning Spaces (DHSI 2026)

Description

This course will guide attendees in developing and enhancing experiential and educational digital humanities programming using liberatory and feminist pedagogical frameworks. Participants will examine strategies for building DH programming that meet the diverse educational and research needs of students, faculty, institutions, and community partners. Participants will engage in critical studies that explain how experiential and educational digital humanities programming can be used to build welcoming and interdisciplinary communities for students that enhance career readiness, collaboration, and skill-building for students while contributing to the research of faculty and community partners. Throughout the course, participants will actively ideate, collaborate, and network while constructing their own project plans for building student-centered curriculum modules, digital humanities labs, and experiential student programs that align with liberatory and feminist pedagogies.

Instructor(s)

Jacquelyne Thoni Howard is a Senior Professor of Practice and Associate Director of Student Engagement at the Connolly Alexander Institute for Data Science at Tulane University. She is a co-editor of the book, Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online (AU Press, 2025) and a founding co-editor of the award-winning guide Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online (2020). She is also the technical director of numerous digital humanities projects. Her research, teaching, and mentoring work centers on the social and cultural issues relating to the history of data, science and technology studies, data literacy, and convening digital humanities labs.