The Digital Innovation Lab would like to congratulate Charlotte Fryar on completing her digital dissertation, Reclaiming the University of the People: Racial Justice Movements at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Fryar was a 2018 Digital Dissertation Fellow, and has now completed a fully digital dissertation—a first in the humanities at UNC-CH. In addition to her connection to the Digital Innovation Lab through the digital dissertation fellowship, Fryar completed the Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate and worked for several years as a graduate research assistant in the Digital Innovation Lab.
Completed as a documentary website, Fryar’s project includes essays, maps, and audio archives that “interpret the history of how Black students and workers engaged in movements for racial justice at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1951 to 2018 and challenged the University’s dominant cultural landscape of white supremacy.” Using a methodology that brings together public digital humanities and oral histories, Fryar has created a resource for anyone looking into racial justice at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Congratulations Charlotte!
