The Gullah Geechee Digital Project is a multi-year, multi-institution digitization and interpretation project that showcases the historic depth and contemporary diversity of the Gullah Geechee culture and people. Digitizing thousands of artifacts from plantation records to interviews conducted within the last two years. This first phase of the project focuses on five communities in South Carolina: Sandy Island, Plantersville, Murrells Inlet, Johns Island, and St. Helena Island.

There are several components of the project:

Digital Hub

A digital hub provides access to all of the collections digitized by the project, complete with reparative descriptions, participant information, locations, and (coming soon) easy user-contributed editing suggestions and keyword additions that create connections between collections in ways that make sure the collection make sense to the community.

Immersive Tours

Built in the Unity Platform, the immersive experiences provide stories and tours of sites at each of the five communities, some of which are difficult to reach and have limited on-site signage. Players can engage in the landscape while experiencing small excerpts of interviews and stories of these communities.

Special Thanks

This project has been generously supported through the National Historic Records Preservation Commission's major grant program as well as the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation.

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Credits

Faculty Leads

Eric Crawford (2019-2020), Director of The Joyner Institute for Gullah and African Diaspora Studies
Alli Crandell (2019-2023), Director of The Athenaeum Press

Sue Bergeron, Immersive Experiences, Professor of Geography
Tim Fischer, Recording Technology, Professor of Music
Scott Bacon, Archive and Metadata, Digital Librarian
Scott Mann, Design, Professor of Visual Art and Graphic Design