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How to begin your Alt-Ac career search

Posted on March 27, 2021March 27, 2021 by Ashley R. Sanders

Maybe you have become disenchanted with academia and/or the academic job search, or you have recently discovered the numerous possibilities outside of the university. Perhaps you have known from the beginning that a different path calls to you, or maybe you’re just curious. Whatever the case may be, read on for tips and suggestions for how to begin your Alt-Ac (Alternative-Academic) job search an...

Stats for Humanists | Winter 2021 Syllabus

Posted on March 17, 2021March 17, 2021 by Ashley R. Sanders

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Course Description This is a learner-centered, project-based, introductory applied statistics course that exemplifies the principle of “data for good,” or putting Data Science and Digital Humanities to work for social justice efforts. Students will choose a data set that is personally meaningful and work with others who are interested in the same issue to generate evidence-based, statistic...

Ink blood

Posted on September 15, 2020September 15, 2020 by Ashley R. Sanders

I am feeling brave this morning - brave enough to write - to spill my ink blood on the physical and digital pages that lie before me waiting to soak it up, to be filled with meaning. That very notion, that my words may have such power, causes me to hesitate. Who am I to think I wield words and ideas with such skill? And yet, they are in me, brewing, stewing, ready to overflow the confines of mind...

Freedom

Posted on September 6, 2020March 17, 2021 by Ashley R. Sanders

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Freedom is accepting and acting on one's right to choose.--Ashley Sanders This definition takes as axiomatic an innate right to make choices about one's life. An absence of this right implies a lack of freedom. It implies the responsibility involved when accepting that one has a right to make decisions and that those decisions necessarily have effects and consequences. When making a choice,...

Vulnerability

Posted on September 3, 2020March 17, 2021 by Ashley R. Sanders

Sketch by Ashley Sanders What is vulnerability butletting your heart step nakedinto another's handand waiting with held breathand knotted stomachwonderingif your heart will be crushedbefore your very eyesorif your intuition was correctand the other will cradle and protectthe precious gift you've shared. Trust Trust is earned when the otherhas proven to be a careful guardianof your heart ...

Chasing monsters in the dark

Posted on July 30, 2020September 16, 2020 by Ashley R. Sanders

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Eyes blink sleepily openstaring at the hazy figuresas they slowly come into focus,fuzzy, gray blurs becomingdefined multi-hued crisp linessharpened by the sun's dawning light.The drift between twilight and dawn was filled with memory-dreams,bright, fevered desiresthat grew like the monstrous shadows,beckoning me deeper into the dark.Adrift in the sea of night, I could not resist their siren's...

Power and Authority on the Early American Frontier: Explorations with Text Analysis | Fall 2019 Syllabus

Posted on October 5, 2019March 12, 2021 by Ashley R. Sanders

Course Description: This is an upper division Digital Humanities course that teaches text analysis, employing both user friendly tools and Python. We apply these techniques to study the history of Native- and Euro- American interactions in the present-day Midwest between 1776 and 1820. What did the Native American communities think, feel, and do in response to Euro-American incursion and ...

DH 150 Winter 2019 Syllabus

Posted on February 25, 2019December 4, 2020 by Ashley R. Sanders

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...

DH 101 Fall 2018 Syllabus

Posted on February 25, 2019September 1, 2020 by Ashley R. Sanders

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 Des...