Welcome to the RAD Project, a study of Black rebellions in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Atlantic world.  

This project focuses on the role of  newspapers in transmitting, shaping, and building awareness of Black resistance movements in the periodical press.

The RAD Project team benefitted from an award from the University of Oregon’s Office of the Vice President for Research Innovation. This multi-year Incubating Interdisciplinary Initiatives award enabled us to build a nineteenth-century newspaper corpus and explore approaches to the study of periodical culture’s record of writng about rebellions. 

 

 

 

This project is under development by a team of scholars and students: Faith Barter, Assistant Professor of English, UO; Jonathan Cain, Associate University Librarian for Research and Learning, Columbia University;  Ulrick Casimir, Career Instructor, English Department, UO; Heidi Kaufman Associate Professor of English, UO; Thanh Nguyen Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science, UO; Thien Nguyen, Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science, UO; and Erik Steiner, Co-Director Spatial History Project, CESTA, Stanford University

Please email us with questions about this project: rebellions@uoregon.edu or 

Heidi Kaufman: hkaufman@uoregon.edu