I'm a PhD candidate and Romanticist at the University of Rochester. My concentration is the colonial Caribbean in the long (very long) 19th century, and I've been doing work mostly on Jamaica and Surinam/Guyana, though I'll be expanding into other parts of the Greater Caribbean in the future. A long-term goal of mine is to start digitizing more of the Caribbean archive, and I'm hoping others might be interested in a project like this. I spent a month working in the National Library in Kingston, Jamaica, and I would love to go back and begin photographing and digitizing some of their resources. Their strict rules prohibit photography, but I'm sure that a few interested scholars could help them see the value in getting their works online. I would of course love to do this with other collections, as well!

I feel that pooling our experiences and resources could help kickstart a project like this. If anyone is interested in beginning such a collaboration, send me an e-mail off-list at alimcghee@gmail.com.