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Working in Public
One of the hardest things as a tenure-track faculty member is to keep all the things you are doing moving forward. For me, one of the things that has fallen by the wayside is most social media, including this blog. Part of it falling away is because I’ve been focusing on my tenure and promotion…
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Call for Submissions: Future of Digital Methods for Complex Datasets
I’m delighted to be co-editing the 10th anniversary edition of IJHAC with Mia Ridge. Consider applying: Call for Submissions: Special Edition: The Future of Digital Methods for Complex Datasets International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities Abstracts Due: April 15, 2015 Full Chapters Due: August 1, 2015 …
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Why You Should be a Digital Humanist
A few days ago, I got an email from someone who’d read my old post, “Why You Shouldn’t be a Digital Humanist.” I wrote it for the 2013 day of DH and it accurately reflected much of my frustration with both the rhetoric and reality of being a full-time digital humanist. My email correspondent wrote…
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The Devil is in the Details: Principles for Running Large Events
Every once in a while, I get an email, DM, or meeting that starts with the question: How did/do you run _____ (fill in event name)? A few weeks ago, I spent a hour consulting with a team of people who are getting ready to begin planning an international conference on digital humanities/digital media. They…
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Making Digital Humanities Work
Here is a lightly edited text of the long (20-minute) paper Trevor Muñoz and I delivered at the Digital Humanities 2014 conference in Lausanne, Switzerland last week. As we noted at the time, the work offered here is extracted from a larger work in progress on these complicated issues. Since we were fortunate to receive…
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the “Original Americans” and Self-Serving Philanthropy
Last August, I wrote a piece on “The Fascination and Frustration with Native American Mascots” for the Society Pages. I wrote about how sporting clubs’ used Native American names, imagery, and metaphors as a vehicle for identification. I drew lines from the historical roots of mascotry, through its racialization in the early twentieth century, and…
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Suggestions on a More Humane Academic Job Market
I’ve just wrapped a pretty extensive academic job search looking for a tenure-track humanities job (in this case, history). I started the first application in my search in August and ended the last application in early November. I was joined on the market by no less than a dozen former and current colleagues also looking…
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“Alt-Ac” No More
After five years on the “alt-ac” track, I’m leaving and doing what some consider unthinkable. I’m going to join the dark side of the academy. Effective this August, I’m joining the Department of History at the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) as a tenure-track assistant professor. For those uninterested in where I’m going who…
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Time, Money, and the Academy
Last week, I was honored to give a talk at the University of Delaware as part of their Digital Humanities Workshop Series on the theme “Public Humanities in a Digital World.” For UDelaware, I talked for a bit about “Building and Sustaining a DH Research Agenda”, ran a workshop “Getting Your Research Done”, and did…
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I’ll see your open access and raise you two book contracts: or why the AHA should re-think its policy
This week, I’m co-teaching with Lynne Siemens at the European Summer School in Digital Humanities. Held at the University of Leipzig and directed by the esteemed Elisabeth Burr, it is an international gathering of scholars and students exploring the intersections of culture and technology.Lynne and I are teaching our Large Project Management and Development class.…