Christy Hyman is a digital humanist, public historian, educator, and second year PhD student at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. A native of North Carolina, Hyman wrestles with the societal and ideological tensions inherent in the United States south during the nineteenth century. Her current study is a digital narrative that emphasizes the spatial dimensions of enslaved runaway flight in eastern North Carolina’s Great Dismal Swamp region from 1805-1840.
Christy Hyman is a digital humanist, public historian, educator, and second year PhD student at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. A native of North Carolina, Hyman wrestles with the societal and ideological tensions inherent in the United States south during the nineteenth century. Her current study is a digital narrative that emphasizes the spatial dimensions of enslaved runaway flight in eastern North Carolina’s Great Dismal Swamp region from 1805-1840.