When I finished writing Drupal for Humanists on July 15, 2015, my Magic-the-Gathering-playing, arithmetic-doing kindergartener was a barely-verbal toddler. The night I finished the manuscript was memorable in more ways than one: I was four months pregnant with my second kid, and it was the first time I felt him kick. When I sent in that […]
From the ad: The application period is now open for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH), a division of Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage program (Recovery) at the University of Houston. The program is looking for a recent (less than 5 years) Ph.D. graduate with background expertise in US Latino […]
From the funding opportunity: Digital Pedagogy Lab 2020 will take place July 27-31 on Auraria Campus in Denver, Colorado… The Lab has always relied upon the voices of its participants to guide the learning and discovery at the event. Key among those voices are our fellows. Each year, we earmark funds to provide fellowships to […]
From the resource: Over the summer of 2019, inspired by the promising results in articles like Romanov et al. 2017, I set out to use the Kraken OCR software on a variety of texts. Kraken, see their website or their repository, is open-source command line software that is capable of reaching accuracy rates in the high nineties for Arabic and Persian printed text. Kraken is not equipped to handle every text – I recommend […]
From the ad: The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, in collaboration with the Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (generally known as the ARTFL Project) and the Textual Optics Lab, seeks a Senior Research Associate in Digital Humanities and Romance Languages and […]
From the report: The Association for Computers in the Humanities (ACH) Conference took place at the Marriott City Center in Pittsburgh, PA, July 32-26, 2019. While this conference might seem out of scope for me–an undergraduate studying Psychology and Language, Media, & Communications–I was there to present on work I had done as a teaching […]
About the resource: In April 2019, “What is a Feminist Lab?” Symposium was held at the University of Colorado Boulder and organized by Maya Livio, Lori Emerson, and Thea Lindquist. The event included a range of speakers from interdisciplinary research labs and explored ways in which intersectional feminist approaches can be integrated into labs and […]
Vox data journalist Alvin Chang, an alum of the Boston Globe and ESPN, has been writing stories about segregation for most of his career. Earlier this year, Chang looked at segregation in both the workplace and the home in his story “American segregation, mapped at day and night.” Using data provided by researchers at Cornell […]
From the ad: Teach 12 hours per semester (4 courses) in area of expertise, survey courses in World History, and teach and develop courses in Digital Humanities or another research field; conduct scholarly research sufficient for tenure and promotion; engage in appropriate service. Other duties as assigned. Read the full ad here.
From the ad: The Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies is seeking a candidate for an Assistant Professor (tenure track) position whose work connects European history and theory with the computer-based knowledge and technological cultures of today, both in teaching and research. Candidates should ideally be able to contribute to the department’s strengths in the […]
