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Ashley R. Sanders is Vice Chair of the Digital Humanities Program at UCLA. She holds a Ph.D. in History with a specialization in Digital Humanities and a B.S. in both History and Mathematics. Her research employs both archival research and computational methods to explore issues of gender, religion, indigeneity, and kinship in Ottoman and French
Winter 2022 – UCLA: Pirates of the Mediterranean: Investigating Perceptions Past & Present through Computational Text Analysis [link forthcoming] Research Capstone: Exploring the Socio-Political World of the Ottoman Empire through Data Analysis (Syllabus Google Doc) Fall 2021 – UCLA: Digital Humanities 101 (Course available on Canvas Commons) Data Analysis for Social & Cultural Research (Applied
Included Services Initial meeting with library leaders to set session goals Pre-planning with library leaders to design session(s) In-person or virtual session(s) Suggested follow-up activities to maintain momentum Report (Optional) Check-in meeting 6- to 12-months later Work Sample The general planning session guided participants through the essential first steps of designing a DH center tailored
Ashley R. Sanders is Vice Chair of the Digital Humanities Program at UCLA. She holds a Ph.D. in History with a specialization in Digital Humanities and a B.S. in both History and Mathematics. Her research employs both archival research and computational methods to explore issues of gender, religion, indigeneity, and kinship in Ottoman and French Algeria. Her first book, Visualizing History’s Fragments: A Computational Approach to Humanistic Research, is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan Press. Additional publications include “Silent No More: Women as Significant Political Intermediaries in Ottoman Algeria” (Current Research in Digital History, 2020), “Building a DIY Community of Practice,” in People, Practice, Power: Digital Humanities outside the Center (December 2021), and a maturity framework for DH centers. She is also currently revising her first historical manuscript, “Between Two Fires: The Origins of Settler Colonialism in the United States and French Algeria,” for publication, and she has begun work on her third book, entitled, “Imperial Margins: Ethnicity, Gender, and Identity in Ottoman-Algeria, 1518-1837.” She currently offers courses in applied statistics for humanistic research, natural language processing, social media data analytics, computational research capstones, and a project-based introductory digital humanities course.
Ashley has also been awarded funding as part of the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Program (2023) in collaboration with Co-PI, Jessica Otis (George Mason University) for their project entitled, “The Mathematical Humanists.” The grant will fund a series of in-person, online, and asynchronous professional development workshops to be hosted by George Mason University and the University of California, Los Angeles, on statistics, graphs and networks, linear algebra, and discrete mathematics methods that inform computational humanities methodologies such as network analysis, and text mining and analysis.
To learn more about her historical and digital humanities research, check out her academic site, Colonialism Through the Veil, click on the links below, and read about her current book projects.
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0000-0002-8290-6601 | GitHub: 
https://github.com/AshleySanders
