credits
Editors in Chief
Managing Editor
Production Editor
Editorial Board
Yarimar Bonilla
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
Laurent Dubois
Schuyler Esprit
Jessica Marie Johnson
Kelly Baker Josephs
Frances Negrón-Muntaner
Vincent Brown
Laurie Taylor\
Publisher
Open Scholarship Services at Columbia University Libraries
Institutional Support
Columbia University Libraries
Yale University
Special Acknowledgment
archipelagos is grateful for the support we received from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Through its Digital Start-Up Grant program, the NEH provided much-needed resources for the multiple valences of experimentation and innovation undergirding this platform. We are also particularly grateful to the Small Axe Project. This journal is a direct expression of the generous and visionary support of SXP founder and Editor-in-Chief David Scott, who initially carved out this space for the Caribbean Digital and entrusted archipelagos with its stewardship.
Sponsors
NEH Office of Digital Humanities
Small Axe Project
Columbia University Libraries
Columbia University Center for the Study of Social Difference
Barnard Committee on Online and On-Campus Learning
Columbia group for experimental methods in the humanities (xpmethod)
Yale University
With gratitude to
Soraya Limare, former Managing Editor, for helping us get organized
Dennis Tenen, original Project Architect, for his foundation work helping us architect the site
Juliet Ali, former Designer, for her work making us look good in public
Kaiama L. Glover | editor
Kaiama L. Glover is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French and Africana Studies and Director of the Digital Humanities Center at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her research focuses primarily on postcolonial francophone literature and culture, particularly that of Haiti and the French Antilles. Her book, Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon (Liverpool UP 2010), examines canon formation in the French and Creole-speaking Caribbean and the particular fate of the Haitian Spiralist authors vis-à-vis this canon. Her most recent monograph, Disorderly Women: On Caribbean Community and the Ethics of Self-Regard, is forthcoming with Duke University Press in 2020. In 2018-2019 she was a resident Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris, France where she began work on her new book project, “René Depestre: For the Love of Revolution.” Glover is founding co-editor of archipelagos journal, and founding co-director of the digital humanities project In the Same Boats: Toward an Afro-Atlantic Intellectual Cartography.
Alex Gil | editor
Alex Gil is Senior Lecturer II and Associate Research Faculty of Digital Humanities in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, where he teaches introductory and advanced courses in digital humanities, and runs project-based learning and collective research initiatives. Before joining Yale, Alex served for ten years as Digital Scholarship Librarian at Columbia University, where he co-created and nurtured the Butler Studio and the Group for Experimental Methods in Humanistic Research. His research interests include Caribbean culture and history, digital humanities and technology design for different infrastructural and socio-economic environments, and the ownership and material extent of the cultural and scholarly record.
Winnie E. Pérez Martínez | managing editor
Winnie E. Pérez Martínez is a PhD candidate in Spanish and a student in the digital humanities graduate certificate at the University of Virginia. She also works at UVA’s DH Center in the Scholars’ Lab as a DH Designer. Her current research studies depictions of small-scale grassroots community-building gestures in 21st-century Caribbean science fiction as they emerge to face the failure of modern technoscience infrastructures in colonized islands, like collapsed power grids and human experimentation. More broadly, she is interested in the design of social and technological systems, web development and speculative research methods that bridge literary studies, pedagogy, and digital humanities to help us better understand the effects of science on our lives. Currently, she serves as a Council Representative and a member of the Association for Computers and the Humanities.
Brian Ballsun-Stanton | production editor
Dr Brian Ballsun-Stanton is leading Macquarie University’s Faculty of Arts understanding, policy, teaching, and research initiatives around the techniques and appropriate uses of Generative AI. With a PhD in Philosophy of Data that enables him to bridge theoretical frameworks with practical implementations, he has developed the university’s “Guidance Note: Using Generative Artificial Intelligence in Research” and pioneered AI integration across multiple disciplines, winning the 2024 Faculty of Arts Educational Leadership Award for his innovative work in AI-enhanced learning. His implementations span Languages, Security Studies, and Law, each featuring unique aspects such as AI-optional and AI-required assessments, cross-model critical evaluation, and simulations. He teaches the effective use and techniques of generative AI to undergraduate and post-graduate students, reaching more than 1,500 students through various initiatives.