How the humanities nurture tech, and vice versa: an interview with Prof. Sylvester Johnson, Library of Congress Kluge Chair in Science and Technology.

Humanities Watch recently sat down with Sylvester Johnson to ask him his thoughts on ways he sees the synergy between the humanities and technology in our society. Johnson is Professor of Black Studies at Northwestern University and is the author of The Myth of Ham in Nineteenth-Century American Christianity: Race, Heathens, and the People of God (Palgrave 2004) and African American Religions, 1500-2000: Colonialism, Democracy, and Freedom (Cambridge 2015). He is the Founding CEO of the Corporation for Public Interest Technology, and as Director of Center for Humanities at Virginia Tech helped establish Virginia Tech’s Institute for Leadership in Technology with Rishi Jaitly. 

H/t Rick Love