2017 Invited Speakers
Third Annual DISSH Symposium
Digital Innovation and Scholarship in the Social Sciences and Humanities
March 17-18, 2016
Faulkner Gallery, J.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University
Invited Speakers and Panelists
KEYNOTE LECTURE, “Illuminating the Dark Archives: Scalable Services for Complexity, Collaboration, and Community in the Digital Academy”
David Germano is professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia. Germano is director of SHANTI (Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts Network of Technological Initiatives), the Contemplative Sciences Center, and the Tibet Center at the University of Virginia. He has worked for many years in Tibet on programs of scholarly engagement, community service, participatory knowledge, digital technology initiatives, oral traditions, cultural geography, literary corpora, and entrepreneurship. He also has led initiatives at UVA aimed at mainstreaming new digital technologies in teaching and research, including the design of software systems suited for academic sensibilities and needs. He is currently additionally working on the exploration of contemplative ideas, values, and practices involving scientific methodologies and new applications in diverse fields in the professional schools, and in higher education overall.
“Digits, Fingertips, Eyes: Doing Research Across Time and Space”
Eugenia Afinoguénova is Professor of Spanish at Marquette University. She is the author of The Prado: A Leisure Culture History, 1819-1939 (forthcoming, 2017) and El idiota superviviente. Artes y letras españolas frente a la “muerte del hombre”, 1969-1990(Madrid, 2003); she has also co-edited Spain is (Still) Different: Tourism and Discourse in Spanish Identity (2008) and, recently, a guest-edited volume Vademecum del cine iberoamericano: Métodos y teorías (2016). Her articles on Spanish film, tourism, and food have appeared in venues such as The Journal of Modern History, The Journal of Tourism History, and Hispanic Review. Afinoguénova is currently completing a 3D reconstruction of a 19th-century gallery at the Prado Museum in Madrid. Last year, Afinoguénova received a 3-year Klingler Research Fellowship from her university to complete the digital project entitled “Mapping Travel Writing,” for which she has teamed up with Marquette University 3D VisLab, American Geographic Society Library at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the same university’s Digital Humanities Lab.
“Taking It to the (Virtual) Streets: Mapping Lambert’s Point DHSJ (Digital Humanities Social Justice) Objectives”
Avi Santo is Director of the Institute for the Humanities at Old Dominion University and Associate Professor of Media & Society in the Department of Communications. He is the co-creator of MediaCommons and FlowTV and the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon and MacArthur Foundations. His research focuses on the extension of media franchises into lifestyle brands through consumer product licensing. He is the author of Selling the Silver Bullet: The Lone Ranger and Transmedia Brand Licensing (University of Texas Press, 2015) and co-editor of Making Media Work: Cultures of Management in the Entertainment Industries (New York University Press, 2014).
“Digital Tools for Campus Projects: Engaging Students in the History around Them”
Anne Mitchell Whisnant is the 2016-17 Visiting Whichard Distinguished Professor in the Humanities (History) at East Carolina University. She received her PhD in history at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her teaching, research, consulting, and writing have focused on public history, digital history, and the history of the U.S. National Parks. At UNC, Anne served as advisor for Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway (http://docsouth.unc.edu/blueridgeparkway/ ), an online history collection developed collaboratively with the UNC Libraries. Her teaching has always incorporated significant digital components, and her students have developed web exhibits on Blue Ridge Parkway history. More recently, her students at UNC and ECU are building digital projects related to the history of the two campuses.
“Claiming a Digital Scholarly Identity for Students and Faculty: Domain of One’s Own and the University of Mary Washington”
Jeffrey W. McClurken is Professor of History and American Studies and Special Assistant to the Provost for Teaching, Technology, and Innovation at the University of Mary Washington. His PhD in American History is from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. McClurken’s research areas include the history of the Civil War, veterans, families, the Pinkertons, mental institutions, the 19th-Century American South, and the digital humanities. Take Care of the Living: Reconstructing the Confederate Veteran Family in Virginia was published by UVA Press in 2009. Dr. McClurken has also published digital pedagogy essays in Hack the Academy, A Different Kind of Web, Learning through Digital Media, Chronicle of Higher Education and Journal of the Association of History and Computing. He was the 2014 Teaching with Technology winner of the Virginia State Council of Higher Education’s Outstanding Faculty Award. He co-chairs the inaugural Digital History Working group for the American Historical Association. His work and teaching can be found at mcclurken.org. Full bio at http://mcclurken.org/biography/
“Building Digital Humanities Projects To Last (Advice from Someone Who’s Run DH Projects for 27 Years)”
Geoffrey Sauer is an Associate Professor of English at Iowa State University, the Director of the ISU Studio for New Media, and the Director of EServer.org, a nonprofit digital humanities publishing cooperative (the fourth most popular humanities website in the world, according to Amazon’s Alexa tracking). His PhD in English is from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Sauer’s research areas include the history of publishing (focusing on recent/new media), rhetoric and technical communication, multimedia development and production, usability, user experience design, and computer-supported collaborative work. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on digital humanities scholarship, and served as PI or Co-PI on over two dozen grants, beginning with a Mellon Foundation grant which created the Project Muse e-journal initiative at Johns Hopkins University Press starting in the 1990s. He has served as a reviewer for the NEH Office of Digital Humanities, and has won several awards for various scholarly websites he directs or co-directs. He is the lead web developer for the EServer Technical Communication Library, the Thoreau Reader, the Antislavery Literature Project, Project Yao, and the longest continuously-running web magazine, Bad Subjects. Full bio at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Sauer