Via digitized slave ship logs, Rocca fellow, William Carter, examines race, power — and literacy

William Carter, Geography PhD student and Rocca PreDissertation Fellow, studies centuries-old slave ship logs whose text was scrawled in nearly indecipherable cursive. Carter, who has dyslexia, has those logs translated into digital text, which he can then listen to using screen reader tools. "We're reconstructing history here," William Carter said of his geography Ph.D. research and collaboration with UC Berkeley's Disabled Students' Program.