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Angel David Nieves is an associate professor of Africana Studies. He taught in the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at the University of Maryland, College Park, from 2003-2008. Nieves completed his doctoral work in architectural history and Africana Studies at Cornell University in 2001. His forthcoming book, 'We Shall Independent Be:' African American Place-Making and the Struggle to Claim Space in the U.S. (University Press of Colorado, June 2008), examines African American efforts to claim space in American society despite fierce resistance. Nieves has published essays in the International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, and in several edited collections, most recently in Black Geographies and the Politics of Place on Africadian (Afro-Canadian) forced removals. His digital research and scholarship have also been featured on MSNBC.com and in Newsweek. Nieves' scholarly work and community-based activism critically engages with issues of memory, heritage preservation, gender and nationalism at the intersections of race and the built environment in cities across the Global South from New Orleans to Johannesburg, South Africa. Curriculum vita

Janet Thomas Simons works with faculty to develop appropriate and effective integration of technology in instruction and learning. With over 7 years experience teaching undergraduate sciences courses and 8 years experience in instructional technology at Hamilton, she brings a broad understanding of instructional technology, strong interdisciplinary focus, and creative understanding of the learning process to collaborations with faculty. These collaborations develop course and assignment designs targeted to specific learning goals, and assist faculty with their own digital scholarship. She is currently Co-directing Hamilton's Digital Humanities Initiative with Professor Angel David Nieves. Before coming to Hamilton, she taught at the University of New Orleans. Curriculum vita

A member of the department since 1986, O'Neill teaches 19th century British literature and a college course, Art of Cinema. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University and is the author of Robert Browning and 20th Century Criticism (1995) and editor of Olive Schreiner's 1883 novel Story of an African Farm (2002). Her current work includes a biography of Amelia Edwards, Victorian traveler and Egyptologist, and essays on cinema and globalization.