Kim Gallon

CTL-E-6352 · Person · scholar · contemporary

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Combined Graph record U-07538 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6352.

Kim Gallon is an associate professor of Africana Studies at Brown University and a scholar of Black digital humanities. Her work examines Black cultural expression alongside questions about data, technology, and knowledge production, with a focus on the Black press in the early twentieth century. She is the author of Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press, published by University of Illinois Press in 2020, which argues that Black newspapers fostered sexual expression, agency, and identity. She wrote the field-defining article "Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities," published in Debates in the Digital Humanities in 2016. She is founder and director of the Black Press Research Collective and of COVID Black, two Black digital humanities projects.

Notes

STAGING: temp id EB-08. Brown University is a School-type institution with NO live record in the build graph — affiliation edge is target-absent (see blocked edges). An earlier Purdue affiliation was not needed for this record and was not independently verified in this pass; it is not claimed. CURATOR'S JUDGMENT (DRAFT): Gallon gives the packet its Black-press root: the technology of recovery (EB-10) starts in the early-twentieth-century Black newspaper archive she studies.

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• Black Digital Studies — related to → this record
• Technology of recovery — related to → this record

Sources

• Brown DSI (accessed 2026-10-29): 'Kim Gallon is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies. Her work investigates the cultural dimensions of the Black Press in the early twentieth century. Her first book, Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press (University of Illinois Press, 2020) —argues that African American newspapers fostered Black sexual expression, agency, and identity in the first half of the twentieth century.'; 'Gallon is the founder and director of two black digital humanities projects, The Black Press Research Collective and COVID Black.' (build store)
• Harvard Charles Warren Center (accessed 2026-10-29): 'Kim Gallon is an associate professor of Africana Studies at Brown University. Her work examines Black cultural expression alongside pressing questions about data, technology, and knowledge production.' (build store)
• BPRC, About Us (accessed 2026-10-29): 'Kim Gallon is the founder and co-director of the BPRC. She's also an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University.' NOTE: Brown DSI says 'founder and director'; BPRC's own site says 'founder and co-director' — both forms are carried in the sources; the description uses the shorter form. (primary source · build store)
• Tulane Dean's Speaker Series listing (accessed 2026-10-29): 'Author of Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press (University of Illinois Press, 2020) and the field-defining article "Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities" (in Debates in the Digital Humanities, University of Minnesota Press, 2016).' (build store)

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