Project Timeline

September 2025: “Envisioning AME Zion (pdf) published. New images and annotations notes on the history of AME Zion Church and Cemetery added to the Tour through the Visualization, with updated References.

October 2024: “Envisioning Seneca Village: A Map-based Tour (pdf) published. High-resolution images published to the Tour through the Visualization.

June 2024: Project soft-launched at envisioningsenecavillage.github.io with 3D interactive model, References, Methodology, Speculations and Assumptions, and Further Reading on Seneca Village list.

Awards and Prizes

American Historical Association and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, Winner of the Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History, 2025. [Prize Description & Past Recipients]

The Victorian Society New York, Award for the Digital Project of the Year, 2024.

The Cartographic and Geographic Information Society’s 52nd Annual CaGIS Map Design Competition, Winner of the Professional Map Competition’s Digital/Interactive Map Category, 2024. [Award Description & Past Winners]

Articles by ESV

“Seneca Village, Envisioned,” Urban Omnibus, June 2025.

Articles about ESV

“September 2025 Newsletter,” The African Diaspora Archeology Network, Sept 2025.

“A Collaborative Reenvisioning of Seneca Village,” Barnard Magazine, Winter 2025.

Presentations by ESV

“Envisioning Seneca Village: A GIS Repository of Archival and Archeological Records,” Social Science History Association 50th Annual Meeting, Chicago, Nov 20–23, 2025.

“Envisioning Seneca Village: Visual and Narrative Storytelling Using Archaeological Records,” Social Science History Association 50th Annual Meeting, Chicago, Nov 20–23, 2025.

“Envisioning Seneca Village,” Urban History Association 11th Biennial Conference, Los Angeles, Oct 9–12, 2025.

Featured at the AME Zion Church and Central Park Conservancy Event, “Founders’ Day: 200th Anniversary of Seneca Village,” Mother AME Zion Church in Harlem, New York, Sept 14, 2025.

“Envisioning Seneca Village: A Digital Project Interpreting the Black Community Displaced to Build Central Park,” Global Urban History Project 2 Berlin Conference: Stretching the Limits of Global Urban History, Berlin, July 10–11, 2025.

Featured at the Central Park Conservancy Event, “Seneca Village: Toward a Permanent Commemoration,” Schomburg Center, New York, March 13, 2025. [Video].

“Envisioning Seneca Village,” Mapping Spaces, Embodying Territories, Saint Louis University, April 3–4, 2025.

“Envisioning Seneca Village,” Talking About Race Matters, Dyckman Farmhouse, New York, Feb 26, 2025. [Video]

“Engaging Urban Audiences In Envisioning The Past” (with Jessica Striebel MacLean), Society for Historical Archaeology Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Jan. 9, 2025.

“Visualizing Seneca Village: Building an Informed and Collaborative 3D Virtual Model of a Displaced 19th-Century Black Community,” Social Science History Association 49th Annual Meeting, Toronto, Oct 31–Nov 3, 2024.

Featured at the Central Park Conservancy Event, “Annual Juneteenth Celebration,” Central Park, New York, June 15, 2024.

“Applications of Digital Spatial History for 19th-Century New York City,” Institute for American Studies, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, June 7, 2024.