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CFP: Teaching with Games for MLA 2013

Teaching with Games: A CFP for MLA 2013 « Brian Croxall. This roundtable session will feature up to eight presenters. Presenters are welcome from a broad range of institutions with a range of contexts and budget demands. Selection of participants will be based on a cross-spectrum of styles, classrooms, student experience, successes, and failures. Send […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: DH, Interdisciplinarity, and Curricular Incursion

In last December’s NITLE Digital Scholarship Seminar, Teaching DH 101, I presented my experience designing and proposing a new digital humanities course at St. Norbert College. In that talk, I found myself arguing, somewhat to my surprise, for interdisciplinarity—by which I mean clear association with one of the humanities disciplines that converge under the digital […]

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Job: Digital Humanities Developer at Stanford University Libraries

Under supervision of the Head of the Digital Initiatives Group (DIG), the Digital Humanities Developer is responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining a variety of digital library projects and products for the humanities and social sciences. She or he will work closely with the entire DIG team (which includes librarians and specialists in assessment, digital […]

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Job: Postdoctoral Research Associate – Digital Humanities Job at University of Virginia

The University of Virginia Law Library invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Humanities position that will commence on Sept. 1, 2012 and end on Aug. 31, 2013. This position is renewable for up to three years and offers compensation of $45,000 plus health insurance. The successful candidate’s independent research will be supported […]

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CFP: Digital Humanities Research and Publication in NCAW

Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide NCAW is soliciting potential articles that take full advantage of new web technologies either in the research or the publication phase, or both. The Mellon grant is intended to help authors in the development phase of their articles as well as to aid NCAW in the implementation phase. NCAW is seeking scholarship that engages in one or more […]

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Editors’ Choice: Content and Context: Visualizations for the Public?

In the very useful survey of the “history web” in their 2005 book Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web , Dan Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig identify the range of genres that encompassed the historical content on the web: archival sites, exhibits and scholarly essays, teaching and learning sites, and discussion forums […]

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Editors’ Choice: The Networked Structure of Scientific Growth

By Scott Weingart

“The Scientific Revolution” is as apt a name as any for a period which set the world in motion. Something feels fundamentally different on this side of its amorphous borders than what came before, and this difference is felt most keenly in the sciences. This is not a paper about the scientific revolution; it will not reveal the steady stream of precedents before the great publications of Copernicus and Vesalius.

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Job: Postdoc: Program Coordinator and Analyst, Anvil Academic Publishing, CLIR

CLIR and the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), working with leading liberal arts colleges and universities, have launched a broad-based, collaborative publishing experiment that is scalable, widely adoptable, low-cost, and readily accessible by scholarly authors and readers. The project, called Anvil Academic Publishing, is a new digital academic publishing platform designed to address […]