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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 […]

Ghosts in the Machine

Musings on materiality and cost after a tour of The Shoah Foundation. Forgetting The Holocaust As the only historian in my immediate family, I’m responsible for our genealogy, saved in a massive GEDCOM file. Through the wonders of the web, I now manage quite the sprawling tree: over 100,000 people, hundreds of photos, thousands of census records & historical […]

Connecting the Dots

This is the incredibly belated transcript of my HASTAC 2015 keynote. Many thanks to the organizers for inviting me, and to my fellow participants for all the wonderful discussions. The video and slides are also online. You can find citations to some of the historical illustrations and many of my intellectual inspirations here. What I said and […]

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Submissions to DH2016 (pt. 1)

Work with me! CMU is hiring a DH Developer

Ghosts in the Machine

Connecting the Dots