Humanities Forum: Mapping Memory

Bios: Anne Sarah Rubin is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Digital History and Education at UMBC. She recently published Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman's March in American Memory (UNC Press, 2014). The project’s multimedia component can be found at http://www.shermansmarch.org. Dr. Rubin received the 2006 Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians for her first book, A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy. She co-authored Valley of the Shadow, an award-winning digital history of the Civil War. Dr. Rubin was President of the Society of Civil War Historians from 2012-2014. She is a member of the Southern Association of Woman Historians Executive Committee, the Maryland State Archives Legacy of Slavery Project Advisory Board, and the Editorial Board of Civil War History. 

Kelley Bell incorporates animation, illustration, and other visual media in her graphic design practice. As a graphic designer in New York and Baltimore, she has worked with corporate clients and non-profit organizations. Prof. Bell’s animated work has appeared in and literally on Baltimore. Her public guerilla-style projections, White Light, Black Birds and Rise and Fall of the Land of Pleasant Living, compared the benefits and downsides of urban development through imagery and animations projected on sites facing transformation (or destruction). Prof. Bell’s animations have been screened locally at the American Visionary Arts Museum, the Annapolis Film Festival, and the Transmodern Festival, and as far away as Berlin, Toronto, and Posnan, Poland. She received the Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in 2004 and 2012, and was a semifinalist for the Sondheim Art Prize in 2010 and 2011.