@QuantHistories

Join the HBCU Open Science Collaborative!

Check out some of our work.

Congrats to lab members Angel, Emmanuel, Ethan, and Jahmere for presenting at the 2026 HU Research Symposium!

Dr. Alexander is an AFEE grant recipient with the Center for African Studies

We are very excited to welcome our first Postdoctoral Fellow to the lab, Dr. Terika Harris!

Our lab received funding from NEH to advance our archival research!

Dr. Alexander joins Editoral Board for Journal of Open Source Education

Dr. Jang and the Morehouse team travel to DC for the GWU-Morehouse-Taiwan Research Hub!

Congrats to lab member Kade who had his senior thesis accepted for publication!

Dr. Alexander to present at the Harvey Mudd College DIoDS Conference

Congrats to lab member Jahmere who will present with Dr. Alexander at the 2026 AERA Annual Meeting!

Dr. Alexander elected to Executive Council of the Regional Math Alliance!

Our lab received funding from ORCA (Open Research Community Accelerator)

Dr. Alexander attends ARCC Workshop: Impactful curriculum development in mathematics: open education resources for future research

Congrats to Jahmere, Jibek, and Zoe (BA/BS, Howard) who will present posters at HU Research Month!

Congrats to lab member Kyshan (BA, Morehouse) on acceptance into multiple PhD programs!

Congrats to lab members Amari (BA, Morehouse) and Jibek (BS, Howard) on their acceptance into UChicago’s DSSI Summer Program!

Dr. Alexander to Keynote at 2025 VA Council of Math Specialists Mtg

Our lab presented at the 2025 DC Open Data Showcase!

Congrats to lab member Qyana (PhD, Howard) on becoming a Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Inductee!

Lab members Jahmere (BS, Howard), Brendan (BS, Howard), and Nicholas (BS, Howard) attend 2024 BMEC

Our lab presented work at the 2024 Bob Moses Conference!

Our lab received a grant from the Sloan Foundation in partnership with The Carpentries on Open Data Science!

QuantHistories Lab Manager and former MCDF fellow Maya Phillips is Spelman's 2023 Salutatorian! Congrats Maya!

Lab members Myles and Kyshan to present their research at the `23 AUC DS Student Symposium

Dr. Alexander is a Co-Editor of the recent Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Notes Volume on framing diversity, equity, and inclusion

Lab Members Amir Harris (Morehouse, c/o '26) and Myles Ndiritu (Morehouse, c/o '26) will join UChicago's 2023 DSI Summer Lab!

[Resource] Data Science for Social Impact in Higher Education

[Article] Data science and social justice in the mathematics community

Data Science for Social Justice Website

[Article] Dr. Hye Ryeon Jang (MCDF Board Member) co-authors research report on COVID-19 infection dashboards in FL schools

[Article] Beyond Ethics: Considerations for Centering Equity-Minded Data Science

[Book Chapter] Legacy of Literacy: Mathematics Teachers and Racial Justice

[Edited Volume] Justice through the lens of calculus: Framing new possibilities for diversity, equity, and inclusion

[Book Chapter] Daija's Awakening: Critical Race Theory and Afrofuturism in Mathematics Education

[Article] Critical Conversations on Social Justice in Undergraduate Mathematics

Dr. Alexander to speak at the 2023 National Numeracy Network Annual Meeting

Dr. Alexander to present at ICERM Workshop: Educating at the Intersection of Data Science and Social Justice

Dr. Alexander to serve as a keynote speaker at ICQCM 2023

Dr. Alexander to present at 2023 WA College Mathematics Conference

Research Team Presentation at 2023 AERA Annual Meeting

Dr. Alexander to speak at Bowdoin College

Lab Member Dylen Richmond (Morehouse, c/o '26) will join the 2023 cohort for the Expanding Diversity in Economics Summer Institute!

Research Team Presentation at 2023 Joint Math Meetings

Dr. Alexander to deliver NAM Cox-Talbot Lecture at Joint Math Meetings

Dr. Alexander's Faculty Profile

Dr. Alexander receives grant from Data.org to launch the Morehouse Community Data Fellowship (MCDF)

[Feature] Math for Racial Justice in Do the Work! by W. Kamau Bell and Kate Schatz

Dr. Alexander to keynote at SIAM Conference on Applied Math Ed

Research Assistant W. Murphy (Morehouse, c/o '24) and Dr. Alexander on Panel @ Just Equations Conference

Men of Math Fellowship at Institute for Racial Justice (IRJ)

Research Assistant Hasan H. (Morehouse, c/o '25) Writes on Love, Reparative Justice and Trust

Dr. Alexander selected for TPSE-Math Leadership Institute (2021-2022)

Research Assistant E. Bassey (GA Tech, c/o '25) Awarded Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship!

Research Team Presentation at Institute for Math and Democracy

Research Assistant J. Cooper (Standfod, c/o '26) at MSRI Panel on Race in Math Ed

Dr. Alexander and Dr. Brian Garrett on W. Kamau Bell's #UnitedShades

Dr. Alexander's Afrofuturism feature on Abolition Science Podcast

MoMath’s Statistics in the STEM Classroom

AUC Data Science Opportunities

SMASH Academy

Dr. Alexander's Personal Website

Join #QuantHistories