Elise Mitchell

Cimarronas: A Black Women’s Archive of Ayiti-Quisqueya is a digital platform that narrates the histories of ten Black women across the Indigenous island of Ayiti, today’s Republic of Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. Using digital mapping tools, post-custodial archiving, animations, biographical narrations, and site visits, the Cimarronas platform will be a trilingual resource to researchers in Caribbean Studies, Geography, and Gender Studies while remaining an accessible teaching platform for college-level educators. Beyond a transnational framework, Cimarronas moves scholars toward an understanding of the island's shared history, particularly in the 16th through 19th centuries.