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Kim Gallon is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University. A versatile scholar, Gallon's work explores how everyday Black people challenge systems of power in print news and institutions such as the Black Church and emerging technologies. She specializes in the contestation of early 20th-century Black newspapers and the Black Church, examining gender and sexuality in the negotiation of public and sacred spaces. Her research interrogates the implications of synthetic data, artificial intelligence, and medical imaging, particularly in the context of breast cancer, to uncover how race is represented, erased, and contested within algorithmic systems. Gallon has authored the book "Pleasure News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press" (University of Illinois Press, 2020), which discusses how African American newspapers fostered Black sexual expression, agency, and identity in the first half of the twentieth century. She is known for her field-defining article, "Making a Case for Black Digital Humanities," establishing the discipline as a viable approach within digital scholarship. Her forthcoming book, "Dancing Evangelist: George Wilson Becton and the Politics of Contestation in the Black Church" (NYU Press, 2026), focuses on the early twentieth-century Black Church as a site of contestation. Gallon is also a co-editor of the upcoming collection "Full Measure of Freedom: The Black Press at 200" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026). She is actively involved in black digital humanities projects, such as The Black Press@200 Project and COVID Black, and serves as the director of the Community Health Informatics Data Lab, which aims to develop AI-driven research projects focused on Black women's health.
Department: Department of Economics