Taking Stock and Setting Agendas: A Workshop on Data, Digital Humanities, and Early American Studies

Virtually and In-Person, New Rochelle, New York
September 19-20, 2025

PROGRAM

Friday, September 19th

3:00pm — Welcome

3:15-5:00pm — DIGITAL SPACE AND PLACES IN EARLY AMERICAN STUDIES

  • Christy Hyman, Taking Stock of Historical GIS
  • Maeve Kane, Taking Stock of Social Network Analysis (virtual)
  • Shannon Mason, Intimate Digital History

5:00-6:30pm — ROUNDTABLE ON AI

  • Stephanie Buongiorno
  • Gillian Macdonald
  • Anne Mishkind
  • Robert K. Nelson
  • Nora Slonimsky
  • Jeri E. Wieringa

6:30-7:30pm — Reception

Saturday, September 20th

9:00am — Welcome

9:30-11:15am — DIGITAL PUBLICS AND DIGITAL PEDAGOGIES IN EARLY AMERICAN STUDIES

  • Jim Ambuske, Narrative Podcasting
  • George D. Oberle and Wendi Manuel-Scott, Reimagining Teaching Historical Methods Through Exploring Local Black Communities and Teaching Using Affective Historical Praxis in Early American History
  • Molly Nebiolo, Digital Creativity and Play in the Classroom: An Analysis of Early American History Visualization Activities

11:15-1:00pm — Lunch

1:00-2:45pm — DATA AND THE DIGITAL IN EARLY AMERICAN STUDIES

  • Edward J. Blum, “Until the States Shall Have Furnished the Proper Data”: The Revolutionary Lack of Data and the Excess of it in the Digital Age
  • Christopher F. Minty, Taking Stock of Scholarly Editions and Metadata
  • Ben Pelling, Taking Stock of Topic Modeling (virtual)
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