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.

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…

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

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,…

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,…

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…

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