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Scholar Spotlight: Catalina Alzate
Why did you apply to HASTAC? I applied because I’m interested in understanding how a community grows and develops online, and what are the mechanisms that allow for encounter. Apart from exploring areas of shared interest in HASTAC, I find the community aspect to be essential for different forms of scholarship and activism. […]
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Strategies for Co-Writing
By Kaysi Holman, Cihan Tekay, Sujung Kim, Mary Grueser, Michael Epstein, Stefano Morello Note: In their initial collaboration, the authors of this post wrote in different font colors to distinguish between voices in the document, which is an easy and effective strategy for co-writing that makes voices visible and indicates which voices could be brought out even more. […]
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Discussion of Numbered Lives, Ch 3: We Don’t Do Body Counts (Ashley Hemm)
This post is part of the HASTAC Scholars Collaborative Book Discussion on Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media (MIT Press, 2018), by HASTAC Co-Director Jacqueline Wernimont. — Wernimont closes the first section of Numbered Lives with “We Don’t Do Body Counts,” moving past mortality counts and casualty media […]
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Discussion of Numbered Lives, Ch 4: Every Step You Take (Molly Mann)
This post is part of the HASTAC Scholars Collaborative Book Discussion on Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media (MIT Press, 2018), by HASTAC Co-Director Jacqueline Wernimont. The book is available here. This post reviews Chapter 4, “Every Step You Take” and was peer-reviewed by Linda Luu. — As part of the larger context […]
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Digital Humanities in Asia-Pacific: A Webinar Recap
Last Friday I convened a Digital Friday webinar called Digital Humanities in Asia-Pacific with University Librarian of UC Merced Haipeng Li and Academic Librarian of New Jersey City University Min Chou. With Shu-han Rebekah Wong from Hong Kong Baptist University, both are co-editors of the newest edited volume called Digital Humanities and Scholarly Research Trends […]
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Adventures in Archives!
Today I spent most of the day rummaging around in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library in Butler Library at Columbia University. I am new to archival research, and much enjoying this research methodology! The collection I was studying is the McDougal collection. The collection is an extensive collection of papers from the professional documents […]
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Adventures in the Archive: Text Mining Pan Am Periodicals
Adventures in the Archive: Text Mining Pan Am Periodicals Pan American Airlines was the major international airline for much of the 20thcentury, the United State’s unofficial national airline, and responsible for many of the innovations in air travel that are still with us today. Following bankruptcy in 1991, University of Miami acquired its archives and, […]
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Searching for Queer Miami
I thought it might be appropriate to begin my first HASTAC Scholars post with a look at my present UGrow fellowship with HistoryMiami Museum. This year, in lieu of teaching, I have spent two days a week at HistoryMiami, primarily assisting the archives department with cleaning the metadata for their digital records in preparation for a […]
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How to Cope with the Dreaded–I mean, AMAZING– “Revise and Resubmit”
The Dreaded Amazing “Revise and Resubmit” Perhaps the biggest turning point in my career as a researcher and writer came the day that it dawned on me that receiving a “revise and resubmit” (or any kind of professional feedback) was a gift, not a curse and a condemnation. The first few times, it felt like, […]
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Grant Writing and Digital Projects
Ode to the beloved grant application–being forced to engage in that awkward dance of showcasing your brilliant project proposal while featuring why you, with all of your skills and experience, are the ideal candidate to execute your project without gloating too much or simply regurgitating your CV in narrative form. Though most seem to sigh and groan […]