Announcements, News

Announcement: Documenting the Now Phase 2

From the announcement: With a $1.2 Million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities in the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland, Shift Design, and the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia (UVA) will collaborate to lead the ongoing work […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Project Coordinator, American Religious Sounds Project (Ohio State)

From the ad: The coordinator will manage and coordinate the current ARSP project. Work closely with community collaborators as well as faculty, students and digital development team across universities to advance the goals of the American Religious Sounds Project; collaborate with co-principal investigators and ARSP staff on grant administration including monitoring accounts and overseeing the […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Ctrl Alt Delete – Aleia Brown Digital Dialogues Presentation

Revolutionary dreams erupt out of political engagement; collective social movements are incubators of new knowledge.  Robin D.G.  Kelly, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination This presentation traces the arc of Museums Respond to Ferguson and #BlkTwitterstorians–two born digital projects that emerged at the height of the Movement for Black Lives. The chats started with queries that […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Assistant Director of the Digital Innovation Lab, Stonehill College

From the ad: Working under the guidance of the faculty director of the Digital Innovation Lab and the Director of the Library, the Assistant Director will manage the day-to-day operations of the Digital Innovation Lab, including development, planning, implementation, creation, and support of teaching and research projects, from podcasting and website building to digital humanities […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Workshop to Develop Digital History Articles for the Journal of Social History

From the CFParticipation: The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and the Journal of Social History with generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation seeks historians to participate in a series of workshops that will develop articles based on digital research to be published in a special issue of JSH. Scholars will receive travel funding to participate in three […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Lab and Slack. Situated Research Practices in Digital Humanities

From the CFP: Drs. Mila Oiva (University of Turku) and Urszula Pawlicka-Deger (Aalto University) have released a call for papers for a special issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly, which will explore two thematic clusters: 1) ​Lab: Physical Situatedness​; and 2) ​Slack: Virtual Situatedness​. The purpose of this special issue is to examine the different aspects of situated research […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Asst. Professor of Digital Anthropology, University of Florida

From the ad: The University of Florida (UF) Department of Anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences invites applications from cultural and linguistic anthropologists for a nine-month, tenure-accruing position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the field of Digital Anthropology. The appointment begins August 16, 2019. We welcome research in areas such […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Publishing and Copyright Librarian, University of Delaware

From the ad: The University of Delaware Library seeks a motivated, creative, and service-oriented professional to lead a new unit, Digital Scholarship and Research Services, which includes two vacant Digital Scholarship Librarian positions that are also being recruited at this time. The new unit will provide University faculty, researchers, and students with services for innovative […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Hyperlocal Histories and Digital Collections

This is a slightly extended version of a talk I presented at the Digital Library Federation 2018 Forum, held in Las Vegas in October 2018. Thanks to students in my Fall 2017 “Digital Public Humanities” course; the Providence Public Library Special Collections department; Diane O’Donoghue; Julieanne Fontana, Angela Feng, and Jasmine Chu; Monica Muñoz Martinez; Susan Smulyan; […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Re-Imaginary History, Release 1.0

From the announcement: We’re pleased to announce the next step in our ongoing project to remix the “Imagining History” project that launched at Queen’s University, Belfast in 2003. You can read our previous posts on this topic here: https://sites.dartmouth.edu/RemixBrut/tag/reimagine-history/ Today, we are posting here a clean spreadsheet with links to all the functional manuscript descriptions […]