.entry-header Digital history, and especially computational history, is a dynamically developing field with great potential for new and innovative research approaches and projects. Its focus is on working with complex and heterogeneous data, which presents new technological and methodological challenges and thus stimulates new experimental solutions. Read full post here.
The ILiADS Steering Committee welcomes proposals for the sixth annual Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship! This year’s Institute, hosted by Macalester College, will be held virtually July 26-30, 2021. ILiADS offers a week-long intensive environment for collaborative project teams composed of some mix of researchers, librarians, technologists, and students to build upon established digital…
The Plant Humanities Lab is an innovative digital space that supports the interdisciplinary study of plants from the various perspectives of the arts, sciences, and humanities, to explore their extraordinary significance to human culture. Humans rely on plants for our most fundamental individual and social needs: from food, medicine, and construction to our encounters with…
We are pleased to announce that the directors of Mapping the Gay Guides, Dr. Amanda Regan and Dr. Eric Gonzaba, have been named an honorable mention for the 2020 Garfinkel Prize in the Digital Humanities by the American Studies Association’s Digital Humanities Caucus. Read full post here.
The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) at George Mason University is hiring a full stack Web Developer. George Mason University has a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of excellence and diversity among its faculty and staff, and strongly encourages candidates to apply who will enrich Mason’s academic and culturally inclusive…
Once upon a time (June 2009), researchers at Google created a tool called Fusion Tables. Fusion Tables represented an almost utopian use scenario for cloud resources. They allowed anyone with a dataset to upload it into a database for free, link it to other tables uploaded by other people, and generate visualizations directly from their…
Recently we sat down with Sebastian Bondzio, the 2021 Gerda Henkel Stiftung Digital History Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. Dr. Bondzio is a historian affiliated with the Chair for Modern History and Historical Migration Research at Osnabrück University. His research fields include…
Proximity analysis is one of the cornerstones of spatial analysis. It refers to the ways in which we use spatial methods to ask “what is happening near here”. It is at the heart of the Tobler’s first law of geography which states “Everything is related but near things are more related.” In practice, proximity analysis…
Under the direction of the Dean of the Library, this non-tenure track faculty member serves as part of a highly collaborative team of librarians. The Research, Instruction and Digital Humanities Librarian will have an opportunity to develop services in a changing and evolving organization. The Research, Instruction and Digital Humanities Librarian collaborates with a team…
The Digital Integration Teaching Initiative (DITI) is now accepting new faculty partnerships for the summer and fall 2021 semesters. Northeastern has committed to better teaching our undergraduates the digital tools, skills, and methods that will enable them to be successful in today’s world. The DITI was established to help CSSH faculty to meet this goal….