The Metropole, the official blog of the Urban History Association, has published a post I wrote on Harlem in Disorder. The post describes the origins
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On March 5, 2024, my open access digital monograph, Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935, was published by
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My chapter “Scale and Narrative: Conceiving a Long-form Digital Argument for Data-driven Microhistory” has appeared in Zoomland: Exploring Scale in Digital History and Humanities, an
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My article “The Properties of Digital History” appeared in the December 2022 issue of History and Theory. It originated in an invitation from Jesse Torgerson
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This semester I will be teaching a new course, Digital Scholarship, examining the digital forms in which historical scholarship can be published. The idea for
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The Models of Argument-Driven Digital History website launched today: https://model-articles.rrchnm.org/. It contains a set of published journal articles annotated by their authors to highlight the
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A book chapter I co-authored with Lincoln Mullen, “Navigating through narrative,” has appeared in Making Deep Maps: Foundations, Approaches, and Methods, a collection edited by
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This semester I will be teaching a new graduate course, Spatial History. I’ve been finding my way in this field since we began work on Digital
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This week the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded me a NEH Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication to support “Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History
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My chapter “The Pinkertons and the Paperwork of Surveillance: Reporting Private Investigation in the United States, 1855-1940” has appeared in Private Security and Modern States:
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On the Digital Harlem Blog I’ve posted the preprint of my long forthcoming chapter on using Digital Harlem to teach the Harlem Renaissance (finished in
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Today, with a heavy heart, I start teaching my digital history course on “race riots” in the 20th century US, necessarily online in GMU’s summer
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Like many DH teachers, I have had to look for an alternative to Carto to introduce students to digital mapping now that they have fully
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“Digital Humanities,” presented at the Law and Humanities Conference, May 19, 2018, Stanford Law School. This conference featured presentations from contributors to the Oxford Handbook of Law
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My article, “Constrained but not contained: Patterns of everyday life and the limits of segregation in 1920s Harlem,” has appeared in The Ghetto in Global
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“Data in Place: Using Digital Harlem to map historical sources,” presented at Collections as Data: IMPACT, at the Library of Congress, July 25, 2017.
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“What is Digital Humanities? Trends, Possibilities, and Limits,” keynote speaker, What is Digital Humanities? Workshop, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 21
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On February 3, 2017, I delivered the keynote address at the 9th Annual Bridging the Spectrum Symposium on Scholarship and Practice in Library and Information
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My article “Searching for Anglo-American Digital Legal History,” has been published in Law and History Review 34, 4 (November 2016), a special issue on digital legal history. ABSTRACT
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“Toward a Spatial Narrative of the 1935 Harlem Riot: Mapping and Storytelling after the Geospatial Turn,” New Approaches, Opportunities and Epistemological Implications of Mapping History Digitally:
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My chapter, “The Differences between Digital Humanities and Digital History,” has appeared in Debates in Digital Humanities 2016, expertly edited by Lauren Klein and Matt Gold
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This post is a slightly revised version of a presentation I gave at the University of Florida Digital Humanities Bootcamp on January 28, 2016. It represents
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I’m thrilled to be part of Women’s History in Motion, a conference to celebrate the career of Alice Kessler-Harris, who I was extremely fortunate to have
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On March 19, 2016, I participated in the Working Group on Interpreting the History of Race Riots and Racialized Mass Violence in the Context of
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The February 2016 issue of the American Historical Review includes an extended review of Digital Harlem — “Harlem Crime, Soapbox Speeches, and Beauty Parlors: Digital Historical Context and
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For Open Access Week I’m collaborating with Jeri Wieringa and Claudia Holland of GMU Libraries to run “How to make your published articles open access,”
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I’m pleased to announced that thanks to a two-year, $600,000 grant from the Scholarly Communications Program of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, RRCHNM will be
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This course is the first of three online courses that the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) has developed, with funding from
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I’m pleased to announce that the National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded me a Landmarks of American History & Culture: Workshop for School Teachers Grant for 2015-2016. The
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On May 21, I am presenting a paper entitled “Putting Working Women on the Map: Gender and Everyday Life in 1920s Harlem” at the Women’s
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