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ECDS is a collaborative research center that creates innovative, sustainable models of digital scholarship and publication for public and academic use. Learn more about us at ecds.emory.edu
Celebrating Native American Heritage Month by revisiting our Southern Spaces interview with Professor Malinda Maynor Lowery on the making of Lumbeeland.

A powerful conversation on Indigenous storytelling, collaboration, and Lumbee experiences today.

🔗 scholarblogs.emory.edu/ecds/souther...
November 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
November is Native American Heritage Month👏
Explore the Native American Studies collection on Southern Spaces—featuring articles, interviews, and multimedia works on Indigenous histories and stories across the US South.
southernspaces.org/tag/native-a...
November 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
✨ The Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation has a brand-new website!

ECDS collaborated with JHR to redesign the site, update 350+ articles, and enhance accessibility and multimedia features.

🔗 Learn more: jhrehab.org and scholarblogs.emory.edu/ecds/jhr-deb...
November 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Discover A History of Gambyong, a digital edition blending text, video, and sound to celebrate Indonesian dance. Now out from Emory ECDS on Manifold! 💃✨

Explore the whole story of multimedia publishing here:
scholarblogs.emory.edu/ecds/ishigur...
November 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
💡 Join Our Digital Scholarship Community!
Looking for a supportive space to share your work-in-progress projects, article drafts, or digital prototypes? 🌐

Come to our monthly workshop to exchange ideas and get feedback on digital scholarship projects!

👉 Sign up here: forms.gle/G1w61s2PDy2K...
October 31, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.
October 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
👏New Blog: ECDS Celebrates Open Access Week!

At the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS), we’re celebrating Emory’s long-standing commitment to open, scholar-led publishing.

🔗 Read the full story on our blog:
scholarblogs.emory.edu/ecds/ecds-celebrates-open-access-week
ECDS celebrates Open Access Week
Explore how the 2026 theme “Who Owns Our Knowledge” is reflected in our projects
scholarblogs.emory.edu
October 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
📚 Open Access Week 2025: Who Owns Our Knowledge?
At Emory, we continue to champion community-owned, open, and inclusive scholarship, building on our long-standing commitment to Open Access.
🔗 Explore Emory's OA projects, journals, and publications through:
scholarblogs.emory.edu/openaccess
Open Access at Emory
scholarblogs.emory.edu
October 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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We are now accepting submissions for Volume Three of Intarsia: Undergraduate Journal of Queer and Feminist Inquiry.

Please encourage your undergraduate students to submit!
Intarsia is peer-reviewed, open-access, and student-led. It is sponsored by @emorywgss.bsky.social and @ecds-emory.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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It’s #openaccess week and I’m very proud that my new book will be published OA on @manifoldscholar.bsky.social thanks to a Mellon grant and the wonderful people at @foxcenteremory.bsky.social and @ecds-emory.bsky.social

You can preview here: jimcrowintheasylum.com
Jim Crow in the Asylum | Emory Center for Digital Scholarship - Manifold Scholarship
The Civil Rights movement of the 1950's and 60's sought to end racial segregation in all U.S. public institutions, including hospitals. Psychiatric hospitals became political battlegrounds over segreg...
jimcrowintheasylum.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
🎬 New on Southern Spaces!
Explore our interview with Professor Malinda Maynor Lowery on Lumbeeland, a short fiction film about intergenerational Lumbee experiences in North Carolina.
Stream it for free at First Nations Experience.
🔗 Link to read the blog: scholarblogs.emory.edu/ecds/souther...
October 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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If anyone needs video content about coastal Georgia (USA) about its intertwined environmental & human histories, check out the Georgia Coast Atlas project by the @ecds-emory.bsky.social. Includes drone footage, in-the-field observations, & interviews. www.georgiacoastatlas.org/collections/...
Videos Collection | Georgia Coast Atlas
TODO: Add descriptive text about the videos collection here.
www.georgiacoastatlas.org
October 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
What would the world look like if all computer scientists knew how to think critically about, with, and through code?

Join the AIAI Network hosted event with Dr. Ari Schlesinger (in-person or via Zoom) to find out.
October 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The digital humanities is today overwhelmingly visual. Learn more about the question of how information can be translated between different senses in Dr. Sari Altschuler's talk on "Touch, Access, and the Digital Archive."

bit.ly/dph-equity
September 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Find out more about the ECDS project Envisioning Baroque Rome (www.baroquerome.org) through the recent article published as a part of the Digital Heritage 2025 conference (diglib.eg.org/items/8ceb84...).
Envisioning Baroque Rome
Project Lead: Sarah McPhee, Emory University
www.baroquerome.org
September 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Proud to announce the 10-year anniversary of the Georgia Coast Atlas (GCA) this month, a project developed at @ecds-emory.bsky.social. The GCA serves as online & open-access public scholarship documenting the environmental & human histories of the Georgia coast. www.georgiacoastatlas.org 🧪🌊🎓
Georgia Coast Atlas
The Georgia coast, approximately 100 miles long, is defined by its barrier islands and their back-barrier environments. With a variety of life in maritime forests, salt marshes, tidal channels and cre...
www.georgiacoastatlas.org
September 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Learn with us!

Registration is open for the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship’s Fall 2025 workshops, which start September 3rd!

scholarblogs.emory.edu/ecds/join-us...
Join Us for Fall 2025 Workshops!
Registration is open for the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship’s Fall 2025 workshops, which start September 3rd!
scholarblogs.emory.edu
September 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Come work with us!

Emory Graduate Students - apply by September 9th: tinyurl.com/cfa-dstp2025
August 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Happy #YouthDay! 🌎 We're celebrating the Spanish edition of @emorycollege.bsky.social Prof. Rachel Hall-Clifford's “Underbelly” (via DPH & @ecds-emory.bsky.social) that helps policymakers advance youth health in Guatemala.

Learn more at "Health Cultures in Local Context” (10/29): bit.ly/3UXTwUc
August 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
What were ECDS team members Dr. Alexander Cors and Dr. Bailey Betik recently doing in Bonn, Germany? 👀
Read our recent Open World Atlanta Scholarblogs to find out 🔗: scholarblogs.emory.edu/ecds/teachin....
July 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Today is the 161st anniversary of the Battle of Atlanta.

This multi-media essay highlights memorable sites, brings you to an interactive map tour, and explores the meaning and legacy of the battle.

southernspaces.org/2014/battle-...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
The Battle of Atlanta figures prominently in the Union's conquest of the Confederacy in the final year of the Civil War and in Abraham Lincoln's re-election to the US presidency. "The Battle of Atlant...
southernspaces.org
July 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
July 14th marked the Women in Military Service for America Memorial Anniversary.

Would you happen to know where we can find traces of those who served? ECDS has collaborated on a project mapping African American WWI veterans buried at Oakland Cemetery.

oaklandcemeteryhistory.org/neatline/sho...
Map of African American WWI veterans buried at Oakland · Oakland Cemetery History
A presentation of six African American WWI veterans buried at Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery.
oaklandcemeteryhistory.org
July 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Southern Spaces, the ECDS-published journal for interdisciplinary research on the South, published a wonderful research article by Emory History Department undergraduate scholar Anhhuy Do (C'24) about his family’s journey from Sài Gòn to Nashville.

scholarblogs.emory.edu/emoryhistory...
Anhhuy Do (C’24) Traces Family’s Remarkable Journey from Sài Gòn to Nashville in ‘Southern Spaces’ – News from the Emory History Department
scholarblogs.emory.edu
July 17, 2025 at 7:26 AM
This AAPI Heritage Month, we're excited to show the work of the Georgia Asian American Community Archive Initiative (GAACAI). GAACAI aims to identify, collect, preserve, and promote materials related to the history and experience of Asian Americans in Georgia. Visit the site here: www.gaacai.org.
May 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I think I can announce now that in the Fall I will be the new Assistant Rare Book Librarian at Emory University’s Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library!

Thankful for everyone who helped me get here, and *so* excited to start a new chapter of my life and work with some incredible people.
May 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM