Roopika Risam Books in Order

Roopika Risam examines how colonial power shapes digital archives, scholarship, and teaching. Bringing postcolonial studies into conversation with digital humanities, she explores ways researchers can challenge exclusions and build more equitable forms of knowledge in the digital age.

This edited collection brings digital humanities into dialogue with African diaspora studies through projects spanning Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and North America. Contributors examine how digital tools illuminate migration, race, culture, and the politics of producing knowledge.

Roopika Risam traces the relationship between information and power from ancient record keeping to colonial censuses and modern algorithms. She examines how counting and classification have enabled domination, and asks who should control the systems shaping contemporary life.