DH Instruction | Ashley R. Sanders, Ph.D.

December 8, 2022

“What you missed in grad school: Digital historical research methods”

This is the first in a two-part afternoon workshop series presented by Dr. Ashley Sanders, Vice Chair of Digital Humanities and a comparative colonial historian at UCLA. The first session of the workshop provides an overview of digital historical research methods, including text and network analysis, geospatial and data visualization, a workflow to organize research materials, as well as tips for pedagogical applications. This overview will provide jargon-free explanations of each technique, examples, as well as links to free, easy-to-use tools.

January 4, 2022

Pirates of the Early Modern Mediterranean

Pirates of the Mediterranean Early Modern Period Interested in learning more? Here are few resources to help you get started: Video: “The King of Pirates, Hayreddin Barbarossa” (10 minutes) Podcast: Joshua White’s interview on Ottoman History Podcast. (1 hour). There are a number of other Ottoman History Podcast episodes that discuss piracy. There are links

August 16, 2021

Introduction to Tableau

Introduction to data visualization with humanistic data from the Old Bailey Court records, focusing on defendants between 1780 and 1786. Sample visualizations include both categorical (nominal) and numeric data. Getting Started To begin, either download and install Tableau Desktop (if you are an instructor or student, you can register for a free license) or sign

DH 150 Winter 2019 Syllabus

Power and Authority on the Early American Frontier: Explorations with Text Analysis Instructor: Dr. Ashley Sanders Garcia (Prof. Garcia) Meeting Times: Tuesday & Thursday, 9:00-10:50am | Winter 2019 Location: Rolfe Hall Learning Lab (Rolfe 2118) Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:00-4:00 & Wednesdays 9:00-11:00 (323 Royce) Course Description: What did the Native American communities in the Midwest think, feel,

DH 101 Fall 2018 Syllabus

DH 101: Introduction to Digital Humanities Instructor: Dr. Ashley Sanders Garcia (Prof. Garcia) Office Location: Royce 323 Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:00-4:00pm | Wednesdays 9:00-11:00am Email: asandersgarcia[at]g[dot]ucla[dot]edu TAs: Dustin O’Hara | Craig Messner Course Website: https://tinyurl.com/F18-DH101 Course Description This course is an introduction to the Digital Humanities, its methods, theories, and applications in humanistic research. It covers a variety of

May 22, 2018

Backward Design for Digital Project – Course Integration

This 45-minute presentation will provide participants with a road map for planning a course that incorporates, or is built around, a digital humanities project based on the principles of “backward design.” This talk will cover the basics of backward design, how to stage a digital humanities project, choose a project stage for course integration, and

From Text to Insight: A Graduate “Intro to DH” Summer 2018 Course

Course Description: What is DH and what does it add to our scholarship? This course answers these questions and provides students with an opportunity to learn and apply various digital research methods to their own research. Through frequent hands-on workshops, students will acquire transferable digital skills in the command line, cleaning and structuring data, creating

February 20, 2018

How did they build that? Getting started in DH project design

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October 31, 2017

HASTAC 2017: Decolonizing History

This is a presentation for HASTAC 2017 in Orlando, Florida (November 2-4). Title: Surfacing Indigenous Perspectives on the French Conquest of Algeria in a Graduate DH Course Description: In response to a scandal involving a fly swatter, as well as local social and political turmoil, France invaded Algeria in 1830 and eventually colonized the former

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