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Author: Colleen Nugent

Job Announcements, News

Job: Assistant Professor, Electronic and Digital Rhetoric, San Diego State University

From the ad: We seek candidates with a demonstrated capacity for scholarly research and publication and a demonstrated record of excellence in teaching electronic and digital rhetoric. Desirable areas of teaching experience include multimodal literacies, multimodal composition, professional communication, social media, digital humanities, content management, and visual and information design. Read the full ad here.

News, Resources

Resource: Infrastructure for Collaboration – Catching Dead Links And Errors

From the resource: The The Programming Historian has enjoyed a huge surge of new lessons and translations this past year. This work wouldn’t be possible without our ever-growing community of authors, reviewers, and editors. But as teams get bigger, one needs to take special care to organize around that size. This post will highlight three behind-the-scenes, technical changes […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Argument Clinic

Zoe LeBlanc asked how basic statistics lead to a meaningful historical argument. A good discussion followed, worth reading, but since I couldn’t fit my response into tweets, I hoped to add a bit to the thread here on the irregular. I’m addressing only one tiny corner of her question, in a way that is peculiar to my […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: What Makes Computational Evidence Significant for Literary-Historical Argument?

Argumentation for digital history stumbles over the ontology of its evidence. I’m writing here about corpus-scale analysis, the digital methodology I know best from my work on the Viral Texts project, and variously named by terms like “distant reading” or “cultural analytics.” Though the specifics of these methods are hotly debated, we might gather them […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Front-End Web Developer, National Archives

From the ad: This position is part of the WEB AND SOCIAL MEDIA BRANCH, National Archives and Records Administration. As a IT Specialist (INET) -Front-End Web Developer, you will be leading enterprise-wide web design efforts with a particular emphasis on Archives.gov, blogs, Presidential Libraries, and related websites Read the full ad here.

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Job: Collection Services Specialist, HathiTrust

From the ad: The Collection Services Specialist is the primary contact for members, staff, and development partners regarding the deposit and ingest of collections and metadata. This is a special opportunity to support the continued growth of the largest digital book collection in the public sector. Read the full ad here.

Job Announcements, News

Job: Web Content Manager, National Museum of African American History and Culture

From the ad: This position is located in the Office of Public Affairs at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). The Web Content Manager will educate the public about African American history and culture through web-based initiatives, engagement, development and maintenance of NMAAHC’s website. Read the full ad here.

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: One Finch, Two Finch, Red Finch, Blue Finch – Measuring Concentration and Diversity in the Humanities, A Response to Wellmon and Piper

In “Publication, Power, and Patronage: On Inequality and Academic Publishing,” Chad Wellmon and Andrew Piper motivate their study in a laudable spirit: they seek to expose and root out elitism in the name of a more egalitarian and truly meritocratic academy.[1] That the study at the same time makes a claim for more studies of […]