Kim Gallon

Kim Gallon is an associate professor of Africana Studies at Brown University. Her work examines Black cultural expression alongside pressing questions about data, technology, and knowledge production. At its core is a commitment to Black contestation as both a critical analytic and a generative mode of survival, speculation, and transformation across time and space. She is the author of Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press (University of Illinois Press, 2020), which demonstrates how Black newspapers in the early twentieth century cultivated spaces for sexual expression, agency, and identity. Her forthcoming book, Power in the Pews: Contesting the Pulpit in the Early Twentieth-Century Black Church (NYU Press, 2027), explores the Black Church as a dynamic site of intra-racial contestation and political struggle. Gallon is also the co-editor of A Full Measure of Freedom: The Black Press at 200 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026), a collection that marks the bicentennial of the Black Press and reflects on its enduring significance since its founding in 1827. As the author of the influential article “Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities,” she has played a foundational role in establishing Black Digital Humanities as a vital and innovative approach to digital scholarship. Her work has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, and the Spencer Foundation.