Digital and Public Humanities

Digital and pubilc humanities projects

• Who Speaks for the Negro? (Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities and the Vanderbilt University Libraries archival web site). I performed archival research in view of publishing materials on this site; transcribed, tagged, and uploaded the new content; and completed several design and usability enhancements for this online archive.
• Digital History Project (Department of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln). I was the primary designer for the first version of the Digital History Project including HTML/CSS, site design, and written and video content. I collaborated with University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of History faculty, New Media Center staff, and an undergraduate student artist on the site design.
• Railroads and the Making of Modern America (Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln). I assisted with the development of navigational and aesthetic components, storyboarding of interpretive “view” elements, quality control, and transcription.
• “Beating a Path to Heaven”: English Puritan Meditation in the Seventeenth Century (Department of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; NOTE: link is to archived version of site). I was the researcher, creator, site designer, and primary content contributor for this site developed as part of my M.A. studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I organized and assisted volunteer transcribers to increase the number of texts available on the site.

Related experience

• Mellon Institute for early-career scholars in the digital and public humanities, funded participant, Vanderbilt University, 2014.
• Graduate Research Assistant (Summer 2014) and HASTAC Scholar (2013-14) Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University. Duties included serving as editorial assistant for the 'Letters' publication, assisting with updates and maintenance to the Center's web site, and working on the "Who Speaks for the Negro?" digital archive (linked above).
• THATCamp AAR participant, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Baltimore, 2013.
• Experience with:
  • Web design (HTML and CSS).
  • Image editing and document layout (Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign).
  • Markup and text encoding (XML, JSON, TEI, and Markdown).
  • Itegration of geospatial data sources.
  • Basic computer programming concepts; most familiar with C++ and Python syntax.
  • Content management systems and blogging platforms.
  • Video and audio editing.