Publications

Below, I have linked to publications that are open source. Those without a readily available link will require access to a database.

Book
In Pursuit of a Useful Science: The Life of Ellen Swallow Richards, 1842-1911, under contract at University of Massachusetts Press, publishing Spring 2027.

Volume Editor
Serenity Sutherland and Adrianna Link, “Women in Science: Achievements, Barriers, Opportunities” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society volume 114, no. 4 (December 2025).

Serenity Sutherland and Adrianna Link, “Women in Science: Achievements, Barriers, Opportunities” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society volume 114, no. 3 (September 2025). 

Chapters & Articles (published)

David R. Nelson and Serenity Sutherland, “Connections, Collaborations, Collections: Using Data Visualization to Rethink Access to Scientific Archives” in Archives of Science: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century, Polina Ilieva and Venkat Srinivasan, eds. (University of California Health Humanities Press, 2025): 175-201. Editor Reviewed.

Serenity Sutherland, “Speculative Knowledge: Ellen Richards and Science of the Home, 1870-1911” in Speculative Endeavors: Cultures of Knowledge and Capital in the Long Nineteenth Century, Selina Foltinek, Karin Hoepker, and Katrin Horn, eds. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2025): 213-231. Peer Reviewed.

Juniper Johnson, Serenity Sutherland, Neal Millikan, & Ondine LeBlanc, “Digital Publishing as a Cooperative for Small-scale Editions” in Digital Publishing & Editing in the 21st Century, James O’Sullivan, Michael Pidd, Sophie Whittle, Bridgette Wessles, Michael Kurzmeier, and Órla Murphy, eds. (Edinburgh: Scottish Universities Press, 2025), 165-188. Peer Reviewed.

Serenity Sutherland and Jennifer Fogel, “Domestic Lives as Commodity: The History of
Housewifery as a Consumer Good from Early America to Bravo’s Real Housewives,” in Historians on Housewives: Fashion, Performance and Power, Kacey Calahane, Jessica Millward, and Max Speare, eds. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2025): 123-144. Peer Reviewed.

Serenity Sutherland, “Remediating Digital Humanities Graduate Training,” in Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities, Gabriel Hankins, Anouk Lang and Simon Appleford, eds. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2024): 321-328. Peer Reviewed.

Serenity Sutherland, “Speculative Texts and What’s Next,” Explorations in Media Ecology, Vol. 23, Issue 1 (March 2024): 47-51. Probes section, editor reviewed.

Serenity Sutherland, “Assessing User Experience Using Digital Humanities Projects in a Design Classroom,” Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook (June 2022). Peer Reviewed.

Serenity Sutherland, “Pedagogies of Scholarly Editing and Digital History in the Seward Family Digital Archive,” Scholarly Editing 39 (2022). Peer Reviewed.

Jennifer Fogel and Serenity Sutherland, “Wellness, Womanhood and Witchcraft in Outlander: Televised Historical Portrayal of Women’s Shifting Roles in Medicine,” in Diagnosing History: Medicine in Television Period Drama, Kathryn Byrne, Julie Taddeo and James Leggott, eds. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022): 30-46. Peer Reviewed.

Serenity Sutherland, “Coeducation and Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Summer Mining School, 1879,” Mining History Journal 27 (2020): 23-39. Peer Reviewed.

Serenity Sutherland, “Graduate Training in the Digital Archive,” in Quick Hits for Teaching with the Digital Humanities: Successful Strategies from Award-Winning Teachers, Christopher J. Young, Michael C. Morrone, Thomas C. Wilson and Emma Annette Wilson, eds.(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020): 94-99. Peer Reviewed.

Fiona Coll, Serenity Sutherland and Candis Haak, “Finding Our Way to a Digital Humanities Community at SUNY Oswego,” Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities Vol. 1 (May 31, 2020). Peer Reviewed.

Serenity Sutherland, “Women in Chemistry’s Workforce: The Women’s Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1876-1911” Ferrum Vol. 91 (2019): 58-65. Peer Reviewed.

Serenity Sutherland, “Military Physician Edward Bright Vedder’s Efforts to Legitimize Healing and Harming Using Western Just War Theory, 1899-1949,” Revista Universitaria de Historia Militar Vol. 4, no. 7 (June 2015): 7-22. Peer Reviewed.

Serenity Sutherland, “Ethnic traditions and alcohol,” “Gender and alcohol reform,” and “Women’s Temperance Crusade, 1874” in Scott C. Martin, ed., The SAGE Encyclopedia of Alcohol: Social, Cultural and Historical Perspectives (SAGE Press, 2015): 531-37, 592-96, 1440-43. Editor Reviewed.