The Department of History is pleased to announce that two new faculty members will join our ranks in the fall. Our new colleagues will add to our strengths in digital history, public history and Caribbean history.
Kalani Craig
Professor Craig joins us from Indiana University (Bloomington) where she was an associate professor of history. She is a digital historian who designs digital tools and platforms that shape new historical methods, helps faculty and students alike undertake collaborative research with those methods, and models ways to engage the public using those tools. As part of this broad mission, she has developed expertise in computational text analysis, network analysis, user-driven approaches to digital-history and digital-humanities tool-building, and community-engaged digital public history. From 2017 to 2024, she was co-director of the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities. Prior to returning to the scholarly world, she spent ten years managing websites and the technical and creative people responsible for creating those websites.
Tayzhaun Glover
Professor Glover is a Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow with the National Park Service. He received his PhD from Duke University. He was the 2023-2024 Richard S. Dunn Dissertation Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His dissertation, "Freedom on the Horizon: Transmarine Marronage and the Abolition of Slavery in Dominica, Martinique, and St. Lucia, 1824-1848," explores the cross-imperial movement of enslaved French men and women in the wake of Great Britain’s abolition of slavery and seeks to reconstruct their conceptions of refuge and freedom.