Jim Casey is an assistant professor of English at UC Santa Barbara and a co-founder of the Center for Black Digital Research.
Previously, he was an assistant professor of African American Studies, History, and English and the founding associate director of the Center for Black Digital Research at Penn State. He earned his PhD in English at the University of Delaware and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University.
His research interests begin with nineteenth-century African American Studies, periodicals, and print culture, extending out into the public and digital humanities. He is currently completing a book project on The Invention of Editors. With P. Gabrielle Foreman, he is co-editor of The Colored Convention Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century (UNC Press). With Joshua Ortiz Baco, Sarah H. Salter, and Benjamin Germain Charles Lee, he is co-editing a volume on Cultures of Scale: Disciplines, Data, and Labor for the Debates in the DH series at the University of Minnesota Press (under contract). He served as past president of the Research Society for American Periodicals.
For more, see links to my work or my formal CV.
Current digital projects
- Colored Conventions Project
- Douglass Day
- Early Black Press Project
- Open list of Black Digital Humanities Projects & Resources
*Pictured above is probably the largest newspaper ever printed, 6 ft x 8 ft.