After what felt like a very long spring, summer and fall seemed to fly by! Despite the fast passage of time, the CDRH team has quite a bit of news to share with you about our activities of the past few months. Personnel Changes After 40 years at the university, Kay Walter is retiring from…
Read More Summer and Fall 2020 in the CDRHAre you thinking of digital humanities (DH) as a career? There are many different routes you can use to get into DH, including lots of non-academic positions in museums, genealogy research, art, and public history. In academia, DH is often a team effort undertaken by faculty and staff. Today, we’re going to talk to you…
Read More The Career Paths of CDRH StaffJust as it impacted so many people and organizations this spring, Covid-19 has fundamentally changed how the CDRH team works with each other day to day. In mid-March, carrying houseplants and microfilm readers and in some cases entire desktop computers, we vacated the CDRH and set up home workstations. Despite the new circumstances, we’ve been…
Read More Spring 2020 (not) in the CDRHUntil late 2019, the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) had no multilingual sites. Despite creating and maintaining dozens of sites with content spanning disciplines, the only projects that even came close were the Omaha & Ponca Digital Dictionary, and The Good Person: Excerpts from the Yorùbá Proverb Treasury. Though both of these…
Read More Cartas a la Familia: A Lesson in Internationalization
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Happy 50th Anniversary of Earth Day! Not all of us can plant a tree or do other restorative work for Earth Day, and in the face of large-scale problems to solve we don’t always feel like the small things we do to help (reducing the amount of water or electricity we use) matter. But the…
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