Digital Humanities | 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.

September 28, 2017

Digital Storytelling Project Ideas

Looking for digital project ideas? Wonder where and how to begin? The following tutorial provides examples of four different digital storytelling project types. The fourth slide provides a linked table of contents. If you already know what type of project you would like to try, click on the relevant link to jump to examples. Each

September 19, 2017

High-Impact Practices and DH at the Claremont Colleges

These are the presentation slides for a seminar with Pomona College’s Teaching and Learning Committee on Tuesday, September 19, 2017.

April 13, 2017

What is Digital Scholarship? A Planning Workshop for CSU-Channel Islands

The above presentation is part 1 of a three-hour workshop for California State University-Channel Islands. I had initially planned to facilitate a workshop on designing a digital scholarship center or program during part 2. However, a quick sampling of participants’ motivations for attending revealed that most were interested in Omeka, rather than the general planning

April 4, 2017

Gentle Introduction to Text Analysis with Voyant Tools

Text Analysis Reading Group Syllabus

Text Analysis Reading Group – Spring 2017 Every other Friday: 1/13, 1/27, 2/10, 2/24, 3/10, 3/24, 4/14, 4/28, 5/12 2:00-3:00pm Mudd Conference Room (3rd Floor Mudd, next to Keck 2) Meeting 1 — January 13: Preprint of Rockwell, Geoffrey. “What is Text Analysis, Really?”, Literary and Linguistic Computing Vol. 18, no. 2 (2003): 209-219. http://geoffreyrockwell.com/publications/WhatIsTAnalysis.pdf

Making Space

This afternoon, I made space. Space for what? I made space on my bookshelf – for books. I know what you’re thinking, and I agree – this is not newsworthy, in and of itself. The significance of this particular space making, however, is that the books are for my very first graduate course, and not

January 30, 2016

Intro to DH for Faculty

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Ashley R. Sanders, Ph.D.

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