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Visualizing Spatial Violence: Tools for Social Justice Advocacy

This team of social scientists, legal scholars, artists, and digital humanists is developing a set of digital tools for visualizing spatial violence, including layered maps and 3D models, to reveal their geographic features and embedded histories.

Collaborators and Funders

  • Liza Weistein. Department Chair; Associate Professor of Sociology 
  • Margaret Burnham, University Distinguished Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of Africana Studies

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