ADHO 2015 Paul Fortier Prize for Early-Career Scholars
I am touched and honored to be awarded the Paul Fortier Prize for best paper by an early-career scholar at DH2015, this year’s Global Digital Humanities Conference in Parramatta, Australia. I would like to begin by acknowledging the Darug people – the traditional custodians of the land in which I have received this honor. I would also like to pay...
ACH 2015 Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen Young Scholar Prize
Thank you to the ACH (Association for Computing in the Humanities), the ADHO (Association of Digital Humanities Organizations) Awards committee and the CSDH (Canadian Society of Digital Humanities)/ACH 2015 Joint Conference Awards committee and organizers for this great honor. I am so touched by this unexpected and very meaningful award. Having asked a few of those lucky...
When ‘Retro’ was ‘Nowtro:’ Restoring the Apple II Plus
I have been into computers since I was young. A prescient gift from my parents to a restless pre-teen, my first computer was (I am convinced) instrumental in both productively occupying my time and absorbing my boundless hyperactive energy, but even more, it served to stimulate my imagination. The logical systems of a personal computer...
Speaking of ‘Speaking in Code’… Part 2
As noon approached, lunch beckoned and the discussion became atomic, situational, one-on-one. Folks began following each other on Twitter, gathering their thoughts, etc., and just then I heard fellow historian Lincoln Mullen mention casually that as the users who comprised the ‘#codespeak’ hash-tag’s ‘network’ on Twitter began following each other, the diversity of the network actually became...
Speaking of ‘Speaking in Code’… Part 1
Earlier this month I had the opportunity to participate in the Speaking in Code conference at the Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, a summit on the use of technology alongside humanities research run by the Lab’s director Bethany Nowviskie and her unbelievably talented, incredibly helpful and congenial team. The conference was a good...