The project aims to digitize and preserve the Fernando Ortiz Archive at the Institute of Literature and Linguistics (ILL) in Cuba. The collection contains over 1.3 million pages of documents, including handwritten texts, publications, and multimedia materials. Using Omeka, the project will create an open-access repository for selected thematic groups, making them accessible to researchers and the public while ensuring preservation. This initiative will safeguard Ortiz’s legacy toward Cuban and Caribbean cultural identity. In the future, the project team plans to link with other Ortiz collections, creating a comprehensive digital archive of this influential 20th-century intellectual’s work.

Memorias de Resistencia is a pioneering digital archival project in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, focusing on documenting the history of female and Afro-descendant leaders who promoted the founding and legalization of informal neighborhoods. The project centers on the popular neighborhoods of San Pedro y Libertad and Santa Rita, preserving oral, documentary, and photographic memories from its members. The project actively engages the community, collaborating with descendants of founders, local leaders, and organizations to document their experiences and support ongoing struggles. Through a digital archive, website, and public presentations, the project aims to educate scholars, policymakers, and the public about the importance of these neighborhoods and the role of marginalized communities in Cartagena's development.

This project aims to preserve the Haitian Library FIC's invaluable collection by digitizing and cataloging materials amid ongoing challenges of insecurity and inflation. Despite limited staff and resources, the library plans to hire professionals to assist in cleaning over 600 historical coins, identifying 1,485 photographs of political figures, and organizing 250 stamps into albums. The digitized materials will be uploaded to dLOC, where the library has been a member since 2012, ensuring continued public access. This initiative will enhance the preservation of the library’s rare items, including newspapers, coins, photos, and stamps, which are critical to Haiti's cultural and political heritage. By leveraging external expertise and dLOC’s platform, to safeguard these materials for future generations while maintaining visibility in the face of the Haiti's current challenges.

Gente de Mar aims to create a digital archive and exhibition about the indigenous history of the Margarita island in Venezuela. will be hosted in OMEKA and designed in collaboration with Museo Marino de Margarita and the Guaiquerí Indigenous community of Margarita. The project builds on previous successful efforts, including a 2021 painting contest, and aims to use the OMEKA platform to create a lasting, accessible archive. The project will archive in a digital space the contest submissions and previous artwork. This archive will serve as a repository of Guaiquerí identity, helping preserve and promote the island’s Indigenous heritage despite efforts to erase Indigeneity in the country. The project will proceed in stages over 12 months, from preparing the team and community to launching the archive, and is expected to maintain and evaluate the archive over three years. It will engage the community through a narrative and poetry contest to reflect Guaiquerí history and culture.

This project aims to explore the legacy of the Haitian Revolution through visual art, design, and fashion by creating "Rendering Revolution: Sartorial Approaches to Haitian History," a bilingual (Haitian Creole and English) digital humanities initiative. The project focuses on marginalized voices, including women and LGBTQ+ individuals, and challenges traditional historical narratives by showcasing contemporary artists and designers like Stella Jean and Fabiola Jean-Louis. With a strong presence on social media, the project has shared over 400 pieces of scholarship and engaged a wide audience. This project aims to build a sustainable platform that will serve as a digital repository for their exhibitions and provide bilingual (English and Haitian Creole), open-access, educational resources for students and educators. By creating this platform, the project seeks to preserve and share Haitian history and culture, offering a long-term space for the work created and ensuring ongoing accessibility to future generations.

This project aims to preserve and advance the rich history, culture, and scholarship of Black Central America through a digital public humanities initiative. The project seeks to address critical gaps in the archival record by ensuring that the experiences and contributions of Black Central Americans are fully represented and accessible in a digital space. During this phase, the project aims to design an interactive mapping platform to illuminate the histories, cultures, and migration patterns of Black and Black Indigenous Central American communities across Central and North America. This platform will serve as a resource for historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and artists, and will spotlight Black Central America within Caribbean digital scholarship. By doing so, it aims to bridge a longstanding gap in Caribbean Studies, focusing on the often-overlooked Black Central American diaspora, and challenging popular conceptions of Central American identity. The project will foster community collaboration and enhance understanding of the region’s history and culture.

This project aims to create a digital exhibit focused on the Viequense (Is)Land and Community through a partnership between the Archivo Histórico de Vieques (AHV), Memoria (De)Colonial, and the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. The exhibit will center on community participation, empowering Viequenses to narrate their history and imagine their futures. By emphasizing digital literacy and narrative sovereignty, this project aims to provide Viequense community members with the tools to engage in archival research, content creation, and curation. Through training on digital platforms such as Wax and StoryMaps, the project will offer hands-on experience in digital storytelling and mapping. The digital exhibit will preserve the community's history and make it accessible to a broader audience, including researchers, educators, and the diasporic Viequense community. This initiative is part of a wider effort to strengthen communal bonds and foster decolonial futures through collaborative, community-centered digital practices.

This project aims to create an online repository dedicated to Cliff Lashley’s life and work, focusing on his transnational diasporic movements and significant contributions to queer and Caribbean scholarship. The collection will integrate oral histories from colleagues and friends, digital mapping of his travels across the Caribbean, Britain, New York, Canada, and the US Virgin Islands, and a detailed timeline of his life. By revisiting his intellectual legacy, the project seeks to resituate Lashley as a key figure in Caribbean cultural studies, particularly through his concept of "Quashie aesthetics" and his advocacy for oral narrative as cultural knowledge. Through innovative digital methods, including reanimating archived letters and video interviews, the team will deepen understanding of Lashley’s influence, making his work accessible beyond academic contexts. This initiative underscores Lashley’s pivotal role in reshaping Caribbean cultural production, particularly his impact on queer and subversive scholarship.

La tierra de lagunas / The Land of Lagoons is a transmedia digital platform designed to archive and explore the rich history of Itabo and Boca de Nigua in the Dominican Republic. This project compiles oral histories, photographs, archival documents, and environmental data to preserve the memory of these historically significant lands, central to Afro-Indigenous heritage. The project traces the region's transformation from the abundant lagoons and agriculture of the past to the modern environmental challenges caused by mining and industrialization. Through the stories of residents who remember the past with deep nostalgia, the project documents the impact of the modern plantation economy, including the shift from sugarcane to mining. By mapping these memories, the project offers a visual record of environmental and cultural changes while addressing the broader legacy of exploitation in the Caribbean, providing valuable insights into the region’s past, present, and future.

"The Cabildo de Regla" is a multimedia archive and information center dedicated to the Orisha processional tradition in Regla, La Habana, Cuba, which was re-established in 2015 after 54 years of prohibition. The project centers on Lucumí (Santería) religiosity within one of Cuba's African Diasporic epicenters and aims to merge the community's need for a sustainable, accessible archive with the ongoing significance of the processional tradition. This archive includes images, oral histories, and metadata to document the processional, its historical significance, and contemporary iteration. The project aims to restructuring its existing website by adding a relational Core Data Map, and new media content. The new site will also facilitate community engagement through submission forms, comment plugins, and oral history data collection training. This project will contribute to the preservation of Afro-Cuban heritage and provide valuable public scholarship for researchers, practitioners, and the wider Cuban diaspora.

The project seeks to remedy the fact that the spatial history of the Caribbean has lagged behind better-known political, social, and economic histories and that no comprehensive bibliography of the maps of the Caribbean basin exists. The project team will create an open-access prototype that catalogs and curates maps of the Caribbean region, the Antillean islands, and the adjoining maritime rimlands from 1450 to ca. 1850. This project focuses on the early modern period and provides an analytical framework for understanding maps as social constructions, not merely scientific tools, of the Greater Caribbean. The platform will be searchable and contain metadata on map types, such as marine charts, urban plans, military maps, and cadastral surveys while categorizing them by function and purpose. With over 7,000 cataloged maps from various archives, the project aims to expand its collection and include tags for deeper contextualization, offering a richer analysis of Caribbean cartography.

Johnson will develop the 3 Canal Collection [1994 – 2024], documenting the history of Trinidad and Tobago’s leading Rapso music group. The project aims to make accessible an indigenous and culturally significant documentary archive related to Caribbean music history, focusing on Rapso, described as “The Poetry of Calypso.” This collection, which spans over 30 years, includes music recordings, performance costumes, film, trophies, documents, and more, capturing the evolution of 3canal’s contributions to music, theatre, and Carnival. By cataloging these materials on a newly designed website, the project will facilitate public access to primary sources and foster research on the intersection of Rapso with Calypso, Soca, and Caribbean cultural movements. The collection also provides insights into Trinidad’s music scene, particularly during the transition from Calypso to Soca. Through digital cataloging and preservation, this initiative contributes to the understanding and appreciation of 3canal's artistic legacy and the broader Caribbean music tradition.

Queerly Stated is a diasporic Queeribbean cultural organizing collective that works on multimedia projects and community-building activities between Critical Caribbean Studies scholars and Feminist and Queer Justice practitioners. Queerly Stated is also the core team behind the Under the Sycamore Tree podcast. The microgrant funds help extend the work of the podcast by archiving the spaces that Queeribbean practitioners and scholars create for themselves and the influence of this scholarship in near real-time. The team also continues creating multimedia projects designed around Queeribbean scholarship to distribute to community members, catalyze rigorous scholarly community conversations, and serve as a template for long-term internal Queeribbean archiving.

Avah Atherton conducts oral history interviews to provide firsthand accounts of the Black Power Movement in Trinidad and Tobago, shedding light on its social, political, and cultural impact. The recorded narratives are archived and accessible through multiple user-friendly digital platforms. The project goes beyond preserving history; it actively engages with the community. Through collaborative efforts with local schools, museums, and cultural organizations, the initiative raises awareness about the Black Power Movement's significance. By preserving and sharing these memories, the project empowers individuals to connect with their past, fostering a deeper understanding of the complexities of the Black Power Movement and its enduring impact on Trinidadian society.

“Recasting Credit and Capital” is a digital mapping project linking Supreme Court decisions on debt recovery claims by Atlantic merchants in the Lower Mississippi Valley to local property transactions by planters and merchants. David’s research uses deed and mortgage records to create a timeline with a slider, illustrating legal cases involving property, asset seizure (including slaves), and the influence of international conflicts on the plantation economy. The map helps students and instructors explore the connections between slavery, the law, and spatial configuration in the lower Delta. Elbra’s project also encourages reflection on the links between the Lower Mississippi Valley and the Greater Caribbean.

Guy Gabon Empreintes d'art dans la ville is a hybrid digital exhibition based physically in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, in the form of a tour to four different downtown locations, and hosted virtually on the OpenTour platform. By delving into Gabon's artwork and past installations, the physical and virtual tours invite users to wander from location to location while exploring pressing issues like climate change and the Transatlantic Slave Trade on the island.

Nicole Hernandez digitizes the archival collection of the Maui Puerto Rican Association (MPRA), an intergenerational nonprofit founded by the first Puerto Rican families who settle in Hawai’i in the 1900s. The collection includes photographs and documents about the history of this diasporic community. Like the organization, the project seeks to question geography's role in history as it illustrates inter-island connections, surpassing national and regional boundaries. The project builds a counter-archive that decenters the continent and explores how Puerto Ricans in Hawai’i remain connected to the broader diaspora through digital archives and oral histories, stories of displacement and belonging surface, and shared knowledge across the diaspora.

Adisa Vera Beatty creates a digital archive about Floridine “Florence” Pitters, an Afro-Jamaican activist and writer. The digital archive holds nearly two dozen letters that Pitters writes to colonial administrators, the “Repatriation Bill of Jamaica and The West Indies” composed by Pitters, newspaper and journal clippings, a fictionalized autobiographical story she submits to a writing contest months before her death, and oral interviews with family members. The platform includes a detailed database and lesson plans to navigate the collections. The project inspires dialogues about Afro-Caribbean women liberators who participate in anti-colonial and Pan-African movements.

Wikipeetia offline is a linguistic revitalization project created by the Wayuu indigenous group members in La Guajira (between Venezuela and Colombia). The members of the project generate a Wikimedia project written in Wayuu with community leaders. The microgrant funds are used to redesign their current interface and create an offline version that students and teachers can use from their phones and when the internet is unavailable. This project aims to develop digital tools by and for the Wayuu community, for which they work closely with local teachers, students, and local leaders to curate the information and test the prototype.

Carrie Glenn and Camille Cordier visually reconstruct Cap-Français during the 18th century, the economic and cultural capital of the French colony of Saint-Domingue. The visualization tools highlight the transformation of this Caribbean city and allow users to search for specific individuals. The PIs complete the project's first stage by transcribing and translating data for over 5,000 individuals and buildings and georeferencing this data with QGIS software. They now complete the project's second stage by adding searchable features for their platform to identify specific individuals and find information on dwellings represented in the maps. A final iteration of the project—to be completed later—will allow the public to visualize the city's evolution by navigating from one data layer to another.

Virtual Altar is an immersive media installation that engages cultural memory and possessions. Serving as a multidimensional map, it traces the geographic route of Afro-Caribbean migrants from countries in the Caribbean Sea to new lands they call home to psychic spaces they produce. This installation is an artisanal tech approach that rejects realism and trusts black folks’ perception to become attuned to cultural perspectives on space and memory. It syncretizes spatial technologies such as the body and 3-D terrestrial laser scanning to reclaim African-syncretic rituals that have been subject to legal and social persecution, celebrate the lives and memories that endure migration, and address the conjuncture of embodied spirituality and geospatial technologies as media capable of enabling or disabling situatedness.

The project compiles an archive of personal and community histories from deaf people across the Caribbean, expressed in various indigenous Caribbean signed languages. Communities represented include Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Guyana, Providence Island (Colombia), the Bay Islands (Honduras), and Puerto Rico. Videos highlight diverse sign languages, with translations in English and Spanish to ensure accessibility. Housed at the Alma Jordan Library at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, the archive supports a growing network of Caribbean deaf researchers. The project fosters deaf-led research in the region through collaboration and training, providing a public platform for ongoing documentary work.

This digital and public humanities project aims to develop the first digitization prototype of Cuban Hip-Hop materials. The first-ever of its type, in collaboration with the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative at the University of Toronto, the CHHA digitization prototype centralizes Cuban Hip-Hop data corresponding to press and journal articles, books, magazines, song lyrics, and music.

Monegro designs an open-access digital collection of archival documents, scholarly introductions, biographical sketches, interactive maps, and classroom resources about African and African descendant women thinkers across the long historical milieu of Dominican society. The collection includes a repository of resources that trace the intellectualism of Black women who are rarely literate yet author enduring legacies in circum-Caribbean spaces. The platform crafts a genealogy of how organic intellectuals in the first colony of the Americas resist, accommodate, and endure during the colonial period (1492-1844). Shadow Scholars ask users to expand on what constitutes intellectualism in Caribbean history. It shows us how digital resources help us acknowledge Caribbean actors as part of the rich intellectual production beyond the realm of letters.

CAISO is a feminist civil society organization committed to ensuring wholeness, justice, and inclusion for Trinidad and Tobago's LGBTQI+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex) communities, by developing analysis, alliances, and advocacy. Their project, “Queer Archives of Trinidad and Tobago,” is a curation of Trinidad and Tobago’s queer history from 1960 to the present. These archives include two significant collections of queer history: The Cyrus Sylvester Archive and a public Timeline of LGBTQI+ T&T History. The research team is currently cataloging this archival material and identifying aspects that could be available to the public. As young and “living” archives, they also consider their ethical commitment to protecting the persons and material within them.

The Library of the Brothers of Christian Instruction was established in Haiti in 1912. It contains an extensive collection of newspapers. Before the country's situation deteriorates, it knows how to welcome students from abroad for their research work: France, Duke University, Harvard (twice), and Haitians living in Haiti and abroad. The library has rare collections that are currently in danger, and they call for our support in an emergency digitization project of their collections.

The microgrant supports the CDSC co-PI, Kelly Baker Josephs, in creating Manchineel + Seagrape, an open access journal dedicated to publishing edited scripts of Caribbean plays. Josephs launched the site in Fall 2024 with four plays, completed with contextual information (introductions, footnotes, related bibliographies, etc.) for scholars and students, and then maintain a publishing schedule of 1-2 editions annually.

The Criadas Project, part of the Taller Entre Aguas (TEA) collective, focuses on Black Feminist ethics and Caribbean historical memory. TEA is examining the personal notes of Puerto Rican historian Fernando Píco from the 19th century (the Píco papers) to better understand Black life pre- and post-emancipation. The project centers on Afro-Puerto Rican women, particularly the figure of the "Criada," which has various meanings in contemporary contexts. Its goal is to digitize and make the Píco Papers accessible online. The project contributes to scholarship on young Black life in Puerto Rico and broader Caribbean discourses, exploring the legacies of slavery in daily life and how these narratives shape the present and future of Puerto Ricans.

This transnational collaborative project is creating a digital repository of legacy recordings of Belizean songs and folktales currently held at the Belize Archives and Record Service (BARS) and make these valuable resources available for Caribbean Studies research regarding oral literature through multiple languages and cultures. The collection is a valuable resource for linguistics research, both as a real-time benchmark for examining how language changes over time and as a contribution to datasets needed for testing automated models. The project employs a community-collaborative framework that combines the BARS's local expertise with collaborators who have worked on Spanish-language recordings collections, training in digitization, and data preparation.

Smallpox and Slavery in the Early Modern Atlantic World: A Digital History is a digital history project based on a qualitative research database of over 550 smallpox outbreaks that affected enslaved Africans and free people of African descent in the Atlantic World, with a focus on the Caribbean and West and West Central Africa, between the 1510s and 1830s. The project aims to offer historians the opportunity to examine the histories of outbreaks and epidemics across several regions, empires, and cultural contexts over 300 years, without losing sight of the millions of people who endured the brutality of the slave trade.

Atlantic Seascapes aims to preserve and promote archival documentation of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic during the Age of Revolutions. This pilot project features a digital collection of materials from the Archivo General of Colombia, including the papers of the Secretary of War and the Navy. The collection offers valuable insights into Colombia’s first decade as a republic, known as Gran Colombia, which included modern-day Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela. While the project’s broader goal is to serve as a digital repository for studying maritime life during the Age of Revolutions, this phase focuses on Colombia's Caribbean Sea. By creating a tool for cataloging and consulting, it contributes to Caribbean history, Latin American history, Atlantic history, global history, maritime history, and studies of migration, labor, gender, and diasporas. Team members include Margelis Guerra, Meliza Pinzón, and Juan Diego Meza from the Universidad de Cartagena.

The project aimed to prepare the TLS spatial data from the UNESCO site of Sans-Souci, a 19th-century palace of the Kingdom of Haiti (1811-1820), for open-access digital dissemination. The goal was to make 3D models available in both online and offline formats for professionals in Haitian history, historic preservation, Black Studies, and Caribbean studies. Sans-Souci, a symbol of Black sovereignty during an era of European colonial dominance, is a key site for challenging colonial narratives. The project emphasizes accessible, inclusive 3D work for multilingual users and varying technological proficiencies. It also highlights collaboration between scholars in well-resourced environments and communities in the Global South, empowering them with digital technologies and transferring resources to promote awareness and research of Haiti’s history.

The ACWWS’ Digital Archive is an open-access collection aimed at preserving the Association’s institutional memory, recording the influence of the cross-cultural connection between scholars, writers, and artists of the Caribbean, and displaying the scholarly and creative works of the diverse, multi-layered, and storied Caribbean communities. Visitors can read about ACWWS’ creative and intellectual history, browse collections, and also witness, via the credit page, the village of names that inspired and supported this project. Currently, the platform holds conferences and newsletter materials. The names, places, languages, and cultural exchanges showcased in these texts illuminate the coming together of Caribbean women writers and scholars from different areas and diverse backgrounds in a time when their intellectual and creative presence was marginalized.

The micro-grant program supported prof. Glover to redesign In the Same Boats website. In the Same Boats consist of a set of interactive mapping visualizations that trace the movements of significant cultural actors from the Caribbean and broader Americas, Africa, and Europe within the 20th-century Afro-Atlantic world. The CDSC worked with Performant Software and DH specialist Rainer Simon to improve and expand the site features. “Same Boats 2.0” features two interactive maps that track the trajectories and intersections of key Black historical figures in the time-space of the 20th century: “Trajectories” shows where these figures lived, worked, and traveled; “Intersections” shows where they may have met one another at particular moments in time. This new version of the site features a number of significant improvements that we hope will enhance user experience.