Phase I (2019-2022)
Project Director
Roopika Risam, Salem State University — Project design, project management, data curation, data verification
Salem State Student Team
Project design — Jennifer Powers '18, G'19
Data curation — Jennifer Powers '18, G'19, Hibba Nassereddine '18, G'19
Data verification — Jennifer Powers '18, G'19, Hibba Nassereddine '18, G'19
Phase II (2022-2025)
Project Director
Roopika Risam, Dartmouth College — Project design, project management, data curation, data verification, technical implementation
Team lead — Jamie Folsom
Project management — Anindita Basu Sempere
Design — Chelsea Giordan
Technical implementation — Derek Leadbetter, Ben Silverman, Rebecca Black, Camden Mecklem
Dartmouth Student Team
Data curation — Nyashazadshe Jongwe '26, Vy Nguyen '26, Ore James '25, Mikayla Walker G'24, Lethokuhle Msimang G'24
Data verification — Mikayla Walker G'24
Technical implementation — Mikayla Walker G'24
Acknowledgments
We are grateful to the following colleagues and friends for their consultation, collaboration, and support for the Pan-African Data Project:
- Marisa Parham, Jeffrey Moro, and Andrew W. Smith of African American Digital and Experimental Humanities (AADHum) at the University of Maryland, College Park for consulting on design and technical implementation during Roopika Risam's fellowship at AADHum
- Amara Thornton, historian and co-investigator of the Beyond Notability project, for consulting on data, design, technical implementation, and dissemination
- Jennifer Guiliano at Indiana University Indianapolis for advice on historical data and web authorities
- Caroline Bassett, Leonardo Impett, and Siddharth Soni at Cambridge Digital Humanities for discussions of the project during Roopika Risam's fellowship at University of Cambridge
- Rachel Leow at University of Cambridge, Su Lin Lewis at University of Bristol, and Carolien Stolte at University of Leiden for sharing data from the Afro-Asian Networks project
- Jacqueline Wernimont at Dartmouth College for sustaining conversations on data, place, and historical thinking
- Casey Hess and Karyn Scheiner at Dartmouth College for administrative support
- David Palfrey for advice on Wikidata
- Dennis Cassidy for design advice and usability testing
