Current MITH Resident Fellow ANGEL DAVID NIEVES’s digital humanities scholarship is featured in this week’s issue of Newsweek in an article entitled “African Art’s Long and Winding Road Home.”

The goal of Nieves’s Soweto ‘76 project is to provide users with virtual access to the history of Soweto, a Black township outside Johannesburg, so that they may experience a significant period in South Africa’s history. Using existing oral histories, testimonies, photographs, video footage, material objects, and sound recordings in the collections of the Hector Pieterson Memorial & Museum, the work seeks to redress the existing portrayal of the lives of township residents in the mainstream or "official" historical record.

Congratulations to Angel for this recognition of his scholarship!