Dissertations, Theses, and Concept Papers
Brooks, Adia Awanata (2014). The Politics of Race and Mental Illness in the Post-Emancipation US
South: Central Lunatic Asylum for the Colored Insane in Historical Perspective. Master of Arts, The
University of Texas at Austin.
Dong, Lorraine A. (2015). The Institutional and Archival Social Ecologies of a State Mental Hospital’s
Records, 1870 to Present. PhD. The University of Texas at Austin.
Ferguson, Jamie L. (2001). The condition of African American Lunatics in the Commonwealth of Virginia
1845-1879. Master of Arts., James Madison University.
Foltz, Caitlin Doucette (2015). Race and Mental Illness at a Virginia Hospital: A Case Study of Central
Lunatic Asylum for the Colored Insane, 1869-1885. Master of Liberal Arts. Virginia Commonwealth
University.
Randolph, Kirby Ann (2003). Central Lunatic Asylum for the Colored: African Americans with Mental
Disabilities 1845-1885. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
Wingerson, Mary (2018). Lunacy under the Burden of Freedom:” Race and Insanity in the American
South, 1840-1890. Senior Thesis, Yale University.
2018
Papers, Posters, & Workshops
March 13, 2018 – Findings from the Central State Hospital Archives
King Davis • Commonwealth Periodontal Association Conference, Richmond, VA
March 14, 2018 – Analysis of the First 30,000 Admissions to Central State Hospital
King Davis • Virginia Commonwealth University Graduate Program Conference, Richmond, VA
April 19, 2018 – Three Culturally Generated Hypotheses Linking Blackness, Madness, and Dangerousness
King Davis • Society for the Study of Psychiatry Conference, San Diego, CA
May 15, 2018 – The Central State Hospital Digital Archives: Mental Illness, Race, Privacy, and Access
King Davis • Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, Austin, TX
September 25, 2018 – Issues of Access and Privacy, College of Behavioral Health Leadership
King Davis • Virginia Union University, Richmond, Virginia
October 10, 2018 - Research Findings from the Central Lunatic Asylum
King Davis • Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
October 25, 2018 - The Central Lunatic Asylum for Colored Insane: Archives
King Davis • Virginia Commonwealth University Firehouse Theater, Richmond, Virginia
2017
Papers, Posters, & Workshops
Admissions of African Americans to the First State Mental Institution
King Davis • Social Work Invitational Lecture, Norfolk, VA
Crowdsourced Transcription of Handwritten Mental Health Records
Unmil Karadkar • Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, Portland, OR
Implications of Historical Data on African American Admissions for Contemporary Psychiatric Practices
King Davis • Black Psychiatrists of American Regional Conference, Houston, TX
In Search of Longitudinal Health Data: Bridging the Divide Between Historical Medical Records and EHRs
Lorraine Dong • Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, Portland, OR
Key Factors in the History of the Central Lunatic Asylum for Colored Insane
King Davis • The Virginia Forum History Conference, Norfolk, VA
Presentation of Archival Materials
King Davis • National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C.
Providing Access to Community Archives within Government Archives
Patricia Galloway • Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, Portland, OR
Fitting New Features into Digital Archives
Patricia Galloway • National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators Annual Conference, Boise, ID
Summary of Findings in the CSH Archives
King Davis • Central State Hospital Senior Staff Meeting, Petersburg, VA
The Central State Hospital Archives: Implications for Mental Health Care
King Davis • Black Mental Health Symposium, Charlotte, NC
The Central State Hospital Digital Library and Archives Project
Lorraine Dong • Archivists and Librarians in the History of Health Sciences Meeting, Nashville, TN
2016
Publications
Exploring the Reaches of Privacy and Technology: The First Year of the Central State Hospital Digital Archives Project
Lorraine A. Dong • Archival Outlook, July/August 2016, 10
Papers, Posters, & Workshops
Analysis of the First 5,000 Admissions
King Davis • Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Richmond, VA
Central Lunatic Asylum for Colored Insane
King Davis • Kwanzaa Festival, Richmond, VA
Central Lunatic Asylum for Colored Insane Archives: Balancing Access and Privacy of Mental Health Records
King Davis • Yale University Archives and Library Staff Development, New Haven, CT
Central State Hospital Archives Project
King Davis • Virginia Joint Legislative MLK Commission, Richmond, VA
Central State Hospital Archives Project
Patricia Galloway • National Association of Government Archives & Records Administrators Annual Conference, Lansing, MI
Data Practices: Harnessing Cultural Heritage Data to Support Scholarly Practices
Unmil Karadkar • Digital Curation Institute, Toronto, Canada
Literary References and Policy Timelines in the Development of Central Lunatic Asylum
King Davis • NEH History Conference, Blacksburg, VA
Overview of the Central State Hospital Archives Project
King Davis • Virginia Joint Legislative MLK Commission, Richmond, VA
The Central Lunatic Asylum for Colored Insane Archives
King Davis • Black Solidarity Conference, New Haven, CT
2015
Publications
Taking the Long View of Medical Records Preservation
Lorraine A. Dong • Journal of Documentation, 71(2), 387-400 • doi: 10.1108/JD-11-2013-0141
Dissertations & Theses
The Institutional and Archival Social Ecologies of a State Mental Hospital's Records, 1870 to Present
Lorraine A. Dong • Doctoral Dissertation, School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin
Papers, Posters, & Workshops
Central State Hospital Digital Archives Project
King Davis • Dinwiddie County Board of Supervisors Meeting, Dinwiddie, VA
Committed to Paper: The Discursive Work of Asylum Records Over Time
Lorraine Dong • Archival Education & Research Initiative Institute, College Park, MD
Genealogical Implications of the Central State Hospital Archives
King Davis • Richmond African American History and Genealogical Society, Richmond, VA
Updating the Central State Hospital Archives Project
King Davis & Lorraine Dong • Central State Hospital Staff Development Meeting, Petersburg, VA
Using the Central State Hospital Archives for Genealogy Research
King Davis • African American History and Genealogical Society National Conference, Richmond, VA
"You Live and You Die by Your Medical Records": The Social Ecologies of Larch Point Hospital Mental Health Records from 1870 to Present
Lorraine Dong • American Association for the History of Medicine Meeting, New Haven, CT
2014
Publications
Race, Marital Status and Mental Illness: The Virginia Data Base
King Davis & Hyejin June • In Tricia Bent-Goodley, Black Families. Washington, D.C.: NASW Press, 45-63
Dissertations & Theses
Steganoscription: Exploring Techniques for Privacy-Preserving Crowdsourced Transcription of Handwritten Documents
Dustin Smith • Master's Thesis, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin
Papers, posters, & workshops
Reading Between the Lines: Image to Segment Relations and Analysis
Dustin Smith, Unmil Karadkar, Patricia Galloway, & King Davis • Digital Humanities Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland
Recordkeeping Ecologies of a State Mental Facility
Lorraine Dong • Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science Meeting, St. Louis, MO
"We're Going to Integrate the Archives": The Social Ecologies of Larch Point Hospital's Records, 1870 to Present
Lorraine Dong • Archival Education & Research Initiative Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
2013
Papers, Posters, & Workshops
Mental Health and African American Populations: History and Current Status
King Davis • Texas Health and Human Services, Austin, TX
Records as Agents: The Role of Materiality on the Lives of African American Patients in a State Mental Institution
Lorraine Dong • American Association of the History of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
The Central Lunatic Asylum for the Colored Insane: Implications of Mental Health Policy and Services for African American Populations
King Davis • National Institute of Minority Health Disparities, Rockville, MD
2012
Papers, Posters, & Workshops
Central State Hospital: A Century of African American Health Care
King Davis & Lorraine Dong • Virginia Forum, Harrisonburg, VA
The Ethical and Legal Issues of Historical Mental Health Records as Cultural Heritage
Lorraine Dong • UNESCO Memory of the World Conference, Vancouver, Canada
The Role of Subject Agency in the Appraisal of Institutional Collections
Lorraine Dong • Archival Education & Research Initiative Institute, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Publications
Involuntary Commitment Policy: Disparities in Admissions of African American Men to State Mental Hospitals in Virginia
King Davis, A.N. Lewis, J. Zhang, & A. Thompson • In Jerome Schiele. Social Welfare Policy: Regulation and Resistance Among People of Color. NY: Sage Publications, 63-91
The Central Lunatic Asylum for the Colored Insane - Final Report
King Davis • Alexandria, VA: National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, 1-26
Papers, Posters, & Workshops
Historical Mental Hospital Records: Classification, Communities, & Archives-Creation
Lorraine Dong • Archival Education & Research Initiative Institute, Boston, MA
Community Archives-Building with Mental Institution Records
Lorraine Dong • Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
2010
Publications
Admission of African Americans to State Psychiatric Hospitals, 1970-2000
A.N. Lewis, King Davis, & J. Yang • International Journal of Social Policy, 6(3/4), 219-236
Papers, Posters, & Workshops
A History of Race and Mental Health Care in Virginia
King Davis • Austin Travis County Annual African American Family Mental Health Conference, Austin, TX
Historical Involuntary Admissions by Race
King Davis • Annual Conference on Race, Pittsburgh, PA
The Central State Archival Project: Implications for Current Mental Health Services to African American Populations
King Davis • National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors Annual Winter Meeting, Washington, D.C.
The History of Behavioral Health Care for African Americans
King Davis • Consensus Conference on Behavioral Health and Primary Care, Washington, D.C.
The Publication of Private Lives: Creating Digital Access to Mental Hospital Records
Lorraine Dong • Archival Education & Research Initiative Institute, Ann Arbor, MI
2009
Papers, Posters, & Workshops
Help Seeking Behavior in African American Populations
King Davis • Jackson State University Conference, Jackson, MS
African American Families and Severe Mental Illness in Historical Virginia
King Davis • NAMI New Jersey Annual Confernece, Newark, NJ
2007
Papers, Posters, & Workshops
Research Issues in Mental Health of People of Color
King Davis • Invited Lecture at USC School of Social Welfare, Los Angeles, CA
Summarizing the Research on Mental Health and People of Color: The Virginia Data Base
King Davis • Western Psychiatric Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
2006
Papers, Posters, & Workshops
A Longitudinal Analysis of Psychiatric Admissions, 1960-2000
King Davis • University of Alabama School of Social Work Plenary, Tuscaloosa, AL
African American Families and Mental Health
King Davis • Doctoral Research Symposium at University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work, Philadelphia, PA
African American Mental Health Participation
King Davis • NAMI National Conference, Washington, D.C.
Breaking the Cycle of Delayed Help-Seeking Behavior of African American Families
King Davis • Michigan Association of Mental Health, Detroit, MI
Linking African American History and Mental Health Care
King Davis • Annual African American Family Conference, Austin, TX
2005
Papers, Posters, & Workshops
Meeting the Mental Health Needs of African American Populations
King Davis • Institute on Black Life, Tampa, FL
1998
Publications
Slaves Don't Get Stress: The Evolution of Mental Health Policies and Services for African Americans in Virginia
King Davis • Rockville, MD: Center for Mental Health Services
. Issues of Access and Privacy, College of
Behavioral Health Leadership, Annual Conference