Selima Sultana, Professor and Head of the Department of GES has received funding through Dean’s Undergraduate Scholars: Advancing Knowledge Through Research and Creative Collaboration Program for the project Entitled “Mapping Prejudice: Unraveling the History of Housing Covenants in Guilford County, North Carolina.”
Building on the nationally recognized Mapping Prejudice initiative developed by the University of Minnesota and Twin Cities PBS, Dr. Sultana’s community-engaged project will use Optical Character Recognition (OCR), historical property deeds, and GIS to identify and map racially restrictive housing covenants in Guilford County. The resulting maps will illuminate how discriminatory housing practices shaped patterns of racial segregation and to make this important local history more visible and accessible. An undergraduate senior in Geography major, Jonathan Heinrich will be working on this project with Dr. Sultana.
