About

Angel David Nieves is Associate Professor and Director of the American Studies Program at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York. He is currently Co-Directing Hamilton’s Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi) funded by the Mellon Foundation (2010-2016). He is also Research Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He taught in the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at the University of Maryland, College Park, from 2003-2008. His scholarly work and community-based activism critically engages with issues of memory, heritage preservation, gender and nationalism at the intersections of race and the built environment in cities across the Global South. His co-edited book “We Shall Independent Be:” African American Place-Making and the Struggle to Claim Space in the U.S. was published in 2008. He has published essays in numerous journals including Journal of Planning History; Places Journal; and Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies; and in several edited collections, including Making Humanities Matter (2017). His digital research and scholarship have been featured on MSNBC.com and in Newsweek.