Guidelines for Digital Dissertations in History
On September 25, 2015, the History and Art History Department at George Mason University voted unanimously to endorse a set of guidelines for our graduate students that set out baseline expectations...
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Returning Women to the History of Digital History
Note: A final and revised version of this essay appears as a chapter in the great collection edited by Liz Losh and Jaqueline Wernimont, Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital...
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Re-Presenting the Enslaved Community sold by the Maryland Province Jesuits in...
[This is an adaptation of the talk I gave for the 2016 Eleanor H. Boheim Lecture at Marquette University, sponsored by the Association of Marquette University Women on September 21, 2016.] In August...
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What’s Next?
When I arrived in Fairfax in August 2004 to begin a post-doc at the Center for History and New Media, I didnâ€t have plans to stay for more than a couple of years. We can all see that that was...
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Faith and Family: Some Thoughts on Marriage and Jesuit Slaveholding
[This is a partial rendering of a talk I gave at the 2018 American Historical Association-American Society of Church History meeting in Washington DC. In fact it’s mostly the part of the talk that I...
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Activating Derived Historical Data in a Digital Environment
[This post is the third in a series of project updates about my work on the Jesuit Plantation Project, adapted from the talks I’m giving this spring at Northeastern University and at the Organization...
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Reviewing is an Act of Leadership
[At Jeff McClurken’s invitation, I was recently part of a panel focused on reviewing digital history at Organization of American Historian’s annual meeting. My portion of the discussion was to focus...
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Thinking with Linked Data; Representing History
In 2006, Tim Berners-Lee articulated vision for a web that was made of vast mesh of truly linked data connecting information across domains using a simple set of principles. Those principles included:...
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Earlier this week, the AHA’s Perspectives on History site published an article from LaDale Winling entitled “Getting Tenure in Digital History: How One Scholar Made His Case.” Dr. Winling presents arc...
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The Peril and Promise of Historians as Data Creators: Perspective, Structure,...
[This is a working draft of a chapter in progress for an edited collection.] Data-Driven History Digital historians are well-familiar with notion that the larger community of historians generally has...
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