# Roopika Risam
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roopika risam is an associate professor of Secondary and Higher Education and English and the Faculty Fellow of Digital Library Initiatives at Salem State University. She is a scholar of digital and postcolonial humanities.
== Work ==
Risam's work focuses on the intersections between postcolonial humanities and ethnic studies.
A Primer for Teaching Digital History
Today’s book is: A Primer for Teaching Digital History: Ten Design Principles (Duke UP, 2022), which is a guide for those who are teaching digital history for the first time, and for experienced instructors who want to reinvigorate their pedagogy. Offering design principles for approaching digital …
A Primer for Teaching Digital History
Today’s book is: A Primer for Teaching Digital History: Ten Design Principles (Duke UP, 2022), which is a guide for those who are teaching digital history for the first time, and for experienced instructors who want to reinvigorate their pedagogy. Offering design principles for approaching digital …
Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs, "The Digital Black Atlantic" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
How can scholars use digital tools to better understand the African diaspora across time, space, and disciplines? And how can African diaspora studies inform the practices of digital humanities? These questions are at the heart of this timely collection of essays about the relationship between digi…
Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs, "The Digital Black Atlantic" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
How can scholars use digital tools to better understand the African diaspora across time, space, and disciplines? And how can African diaspora studies inform the practices of digital humanities? These questions are at the heart of this timely collection of essays about the relationship between digi…
The Hidden History of Data
We tend to think of data as something modern—born with smartphones, spreadsheets, and AI. But in Data Empire: The Power of Information to Organize, Control, and Dominate, Roopika Risam argues that data has always been a tool of power: used to count grain, map land, classify people, and decide who g…
The NRI Daily — Sunday, August 2, 2026
TITLE: The NRI Daily — Sunday, August 2, 2026
Today on The NRI Daily: we're diving into what it really means to be an ABCD woman in 2026, celebrating Roopika Risam's selection to Obama's summer reading list, and tracking Sulakhyana Baruah's major Bollywood debut. Plus, India's boxing dominance at …
Data and Colonialism w/ Roopika Risam
In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined by author, and Associate Professor of Digital Humanities and Social Engagement at Dartmouth, Roopika Risam. They discuss her new book, Data Empire: The Power of Information to Organize, Control, and Dominate. Follow Roopika: @roopikarisam
Data has always dictated power. Who has yours?
Roopika Risam says human history has been a story of data. And in today’s world, where states partner with tech giants, she says it’s less clear – and more important than ever – to understand what’s happening to our information. The author of Data Empire traces how we got here.
Plus: Need some ins…
Writing Was Invented for Accounting and Scrawled on Baboon Bones
A three-inch baboon bone bearing twenty-nine deliberate incisions was pulled from a South African mountain range in 1970. It is approximately 43,000 years old, and microscopic analysis shows the notches were made over time with different cutting tools, meaning someone was tracking something and com…
481. The Data of Empire (ft. Roopika Risam)
We chat with Roopika Risam — author of Data Empire: How Information Shaped Human History — about the very long history of data and the many ways that empires have used data to gain power, exercise control, and enforce order on the world. We discuss the patterns of power/knowledge that persist over …
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‐ Albert "Llamacorn" Einstein
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