Dr. Jesús Ruiz is a historian of the Haitian Revolution, the Caribbean, Black Atlantic, and Afro-Latin America. He is currently an ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow at the Franklin Humanities Institute, History, and Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University. His fellowship is with ACLS is thematized around Critical Digital Humanities, and we are excited to have him join conversations around how to make the digital humanities more expansive, inclusive, globally accessible, and critically engaged. During the fellowship period, in addition to continuing his scholarly research, he will work with Digital Humanities Initiative@FHI Director Victoria Szabo on a new, archives-focused undergraduate course, “Introduction to Digital Humanities" (Spring 2021), as well as on developing his own digital projects. For more information, check out his profile on the Meet Your Faculty site.
