In 2023 my co-author David Ragnar Nelson and I published the digital humanities project “Visualizing Women in Science at the American Philosophical Society.” This multi-year project was funded by the American Philosophical Society’s Digital Humanities Fellowship and traces the network connections between women in science present within the APS’s archival holdings. Blending a network visualization with biographies and other information from the archival data the site helps recover the stories of women scientists we previously knew little about and place them in conversation with more established women scientists.
I am also working on a digital edition of the Ellen Swallow Richards Papers, which is part of an NHPRC and Andrew W. Mellon funded digital publishing cooperative out of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Known as The Primary Source Cooperative, this work seeks to make Richards’s papers and other materials accessible to a wider public, as well as connect in the data pulled from her papers with other 19th and 20th century figures. This site is currently in beta mode, but available for exploration.
Creatively, my integrated media project Between Two Parks, serves as a site for honing my media production skills around the topic of the US National Parks. Part travel blog, part social media, part photo and video production, this project combines my passions for travel, the environment, and media production. I also occasionally host exceptional student work related to the national parks on this site.
From 2014 to 2017 I worked on the Seward Family Digital Archive, an online documentary editing project that features the manuscript materials of William Henry Seward. In addition, students on the project contribute original research in the form of databases, network analysis and digital mapping using GIS.
I was also a team member of Reenvisioning Japan, an archive of 19th and 20th century visual and material culture featuring Japan as a destination. On this project I’m working as part of a team to help redesign the online archive’s structure and metadata.
