Christin Washington

Christin Washington is a Flagship Fellow in the Department of American Studies and Graduate Assistant at the African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities center (AADHUM) here at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is also a member of the Immersive Realities Lab for the Humanities (irLh). Focusing on digitality’s place in Black and American life, she explores how digital technologies stretch and remodel the present limits of storytelling and memorialization, warp time, shrink space, and democratize resources. She remains attuned to the ways they can also reproduce marginalization and obstruct access in the United States. As a result, she feels called to helping create digital tools that are equitable and humanistic at its core. Christin earned her bachelor’s degree with highest distinction in Black Studies and Political Science from Amherst College. There, she was a Five College Digital Humanities Fellow and recipient of the Edward T. Jones Prize for her senior thesis, Dare to Remember: A Digital Memorialization of Black Brooklyn (BlackBrooklyn.org).