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Academic Publications

Godfrey, Mollie and Seán McCarthy. “Race, Space, and Celebrating Simms: Mapping Strategies for Black Feminist Biographical Recovery.” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies (October 2022). https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2022.2130251

Godfrey, Mollie and Seán McCarthy. “Celebrating Simms: Complicating the Single Story in Community Engagement Projects.” Public: A Journal of Imagining America 4.2 (Winter 2018). 

Conference Presentations & Invited Talks

"Celebrating Simms: Bridging Generations in Local Black Community Storytelling and Post-Custodial Preservation Projects," roundtable with Ben Cook, Mollie Godfrey, Mariam Ismail, Kirsten Mlodynia, and Grover Saunders, at the Digital Archives in the Commonwealth Summit, Library of Virginia, November, Richmond, VA, November 2024

"Celebrating Simms, Oral Histories, and Community Storytelling: Toward a Collaborative Practice for Polyvocal Black Historical Recovery," roundtable with Mary Beth Cancienne, Mollie Godfrey, Deanna Reed, L. Renée, and Leonard L. Richards Jr., at the 13th Annual Lemon Project Spring Symposium, William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, March 2023

“Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Mary Awkard Fairfax with Mayor Deanna Reed,” featured event at the 12th Annual African, African American, and Diaspora Studies Conference, James Madison University, February 2022

“Building and Engaging with Community Archives as a Community Literacy Practice,” Conference on Community Writing, Washington D.C., October 2021

“DH, Small and Radical,” roundtable panelists, sponsored by the ASA DH Caucus, American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Puerto Rico, October 2021

Celebrating Simms Expansion Project with James Madison University and Harrisonburg High School: Virtual Opening Event with Mayor Deanna Reed,” featured event at the 11th Annual African, African American, and Diaspora Studies Conference, James Madison University, February 2021

“Building Archives, Celebrating Local History: The Lucy Simms Project,” invited talk for the Heritage Museum, Dayton, VA, February 2017

"The Story of the Lucy F. Simms School: A Site of Memory, Loss, and Celebration,” presented at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Conference, Richmond, Virginia, October 2016

“Building Archives, Celebrating Local History: The Lucy Simms Project,” Special Collections Speaker Series, James Madison University, October 2016

Toolkits, Interviews & Reviews

Byrum, A., Andrews, U., Ismail, M., Lee-Olukoya, G., Lombre, L., Nicholson, S. E., Sawyer, A., & Weaver, L. Campus Exhibitions in Advancement of Civic and Community Engagement [Online Toolkit]. Campus Compact, October 2024. 

Daugherity, Brian J. "Review: Celebrating Simms."“Digital Pedagogy as Feminist Worldmaking,” special issue of Reviews in Digital Humanities 5, no. 11 (November 2024).

Padilla, Thomas. "Leveraging Technology to Scale Library Research Support: ARCH, AI, and the Humanities." Internet Archive Blogs. 3 October 2023.

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