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Submissions to DH2016 (pt. 1)

tl;dr Basic numbers on DH2016 submissions. Twice a year I indulge my meta-disciplinary sweet tooth: once to look at who’s submitting what to ADHO’s annual digital humanities conference, and once to look at which pieces get accepted (see the rest of the series). This post presents my first look at DH2016 conference submissions, the data for which I scraped […]

Work with me! CMU is hiring a DH Developer

Carnegie Mellon University is hiring a DH Developer! I’ve had a blast since starting as Digital Humanities Specialist at CMU. Enough administrators, faculty, and students are on board to make building a DH strength here pretty easy, and we’re neighbors to Pitt DHRX, a really supportive supercomputing center, and great allies in the Mayor’s Office […]

What’s Counted Counts

tl;dr. Don’t rely on data to fix the world’s injustices. An unusually self-reflective and self-indulgent post. [Edit: this question was prompted by a series of analyses and visualizations I’ve done in collaboration with Nickoal Eichmann, but I purposefully left her out of the majority of this post, as it was one of self-reflection about my own […]

Acceptances to Digital Humanities 2015 (part 4)

tl;dr Women are (nearly but not quite) as likely as men to be accepted by peer reviewers at DH conferences, but names foreign to the US are less likely than either men or women to be accepted to these conferences. Some topics are more likely to be written on by women (gender, culture, teaching DH, […]

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Submissions to DH2016 (pt. 1)

Work with me! CMU is hiring a DH Developer

What’s Counted Counts

Acceptances to Digital Humanities 2015 (part 4)