UF Linguistics is proud to announce that Dr. Sarah Moeller has been awarded a 2024 ACLS Digital Justice Development Grant.
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Digital Justice Grants Program supports digital projects across the humanities and interpretative social sciences that critically engage with the interests and histories of people of color and other historically marginalized communities through the ethical use of digital tools and methods. The program is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
Dr. Moeller has been awarded for the project “Reanimating African American Oral Histories of the Gulf South: Enhancing Public Engagement” which will further develop an open-access, easy-to-use, web-based interface that provides users with resources to enhance student and community engagement with the oral histories and learning modules centered on spoken African American Language. The funding will expand the project’s impact by going beyond the normal scope of university public engagement, being guided by community feedback and expressed needs. It will respond directly to a specific marginalized and neglected community by continuing to engage with the Black community within Putnam County, Florida. The efforts will focus on the oral history of students who attended the first Black schools in Florida before integration. The other members of the principal project team are Drs. Rebekah Cordova, Anna Hamilton, and Kevin Tang.
This project is one of seven established projects that has been awarded ACLS Digital Justice Development Grants of up to $100,000.