In this episode, Price Lab Managing Director, Stewart Varner, talks to Joel Lee about his time at Penn navigating the spaces between his two majors–English and Computer Science, the impact a Digital Humanities class had on his time at Penn as well as his current job, and other humanities projects he’s worked on.

This episode was edited by Steven Perez.

Intro Music by Steven Perez.

In this episode, Price Lab Managing Director, Stewart Varner, talks to Malkia Okech about her time at Penn, working with the Penn & Slavery Project, and other public humanities projects she's worked on post-graduation. Malkia Okech was the first student to complete the minor in Digital Humanities at Penn.

This episode was edited by Steven Perez.

Intro Music by Steven Perez.

This special episode of the Price Lab Podcast is dedicated to our colleague and friend Scott Enderle who died on September 11, 2021. Scott was one of the DH Specialists associated with the Price Lab and a leading thinker and innovator in quantitative literary analysis. More importantly, he was simply one of the best people most of us knew. This episode combines some found audio of Scott talking about his work with thoughts and reflections from some of the people with whom he worked closely.

Content Warning: This episode is very different from the others. It is quite sad at times and it deals with the death of a beloved member of our community, Scott Enderle. We were so lucky to get to work with Scott everyday at Penn but his presence loomed large in digital humanities and he had friends, fans, and collaborators all over the world. We're making this episode available for everyone but especially for those who knew and admired Scott.

In this episode, not one, but two former Price Lab Fellows team up to talk about digital humanities! Price Lab Research Fellow, Emily Hammer (Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities, Archaeology and Anthropology of the Ancient World in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations), spoke with Price Lab Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Lisa Poggiali about the ways digital tools have informed Lisa's anthropological research in Eastern Africa. They also discuss how Lisa combined digital mapmaking and social justice in her pedagogical work.

This episode was produced and edited by Price Lab for Digital Humanities' Student Worker, Maria Kiamesso DaSilva.

Unless otherwise noted, the music used in this episode was sourced from royalty-free music libraries. The artist featured is Blue Dot Sessions. 

Intro Music: "Prisoner of Mars" by Stereolab
"Xaleyi" by Youssoupha Sidibe

Founding faculty director of the Price Lab for Digital Humanities, Dr. Jim English (John Welsh Centennial Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania) joined us to discuss the creation of the Price Lab and his forays into incorporating digital humanities tools and methods into his own research and pedagogy. A specialist in modern and contemporary British fiction, his essays have appeared in PMLA, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Harpers, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.  

Unless otherwise noted, the music used in this episode was sourced from royalty-free music libraries. The artists featured are Chris Zabriskie, and Blue Dot Sessions. 

Intro Music: "Prisoner of Mars" by Stereolab

Managing Director of the Price Lab, Stewart Varner, welcomes Jessica Marie Johnson (Assistant Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University) to talk about her work as a Historian and Black Studies scholar. In this episode, Johnson discusses her commitment to black feminist thought, the need for scholars to stay aware of how the general public discusses histories of slavery and ideas about enslaved people on social media, and the ways in which Black Studies has long been interested in harnessing data for social justice.

Johnson is the author of Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (University of Pennsylvania Press, August 2020). She is guest editor of Slavery in the Machine, a special issue of sx:archipelagos (2019), and co-editor with Dr. Mark Anthony Neal (Duke University) of Black Code: A Special Issue of the Black Scholar (2017).

For more information: jmjohnso.squarespace.com/

Unless otherwise noted, the music used in this episode was sourced from royalty-free music libraries. The artist featured is Blue Dot Sessions. 

Intro Music: "Prisoner of Mars" by Stereo Lab

In this episode, we are joined by Price Lab's Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (2018-2020), Julie Beth Napolin. In collaboration with former Mellon Graduate Fellow (2018-2019), Orchid Tierney, Napolin narrates the story of her work as a sound scholar, radio journalist, and digital humanist. She discusses the power of oral history, biases built into audio technology, and the importance of investigating how we hear and listen and who is the "we" who is doing the hearing and listening.

Her book, The Fact of Resonance is forthcoming in June 2020 with Fordham University Press.

For more information: juliebethnapolin.com

Unless otherwise noted, the music used in this episode was sourced from royalty-free music libraries. The artist featured is Blue Dot Sessions. 

Music:
Stereo Lab - Prisoner of Mars
Raymond Scott - Unknown
Yo La Tengo- Green Arrow

Sound Excerpts:
William Faulkner- That Evening Sun, read by Arliss Howard
Mr. Microphone Commercial from 1981
Testimony of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford in front of Senate Judiciary Committee

In our third episode, Price Mellon Graduate Fellow (2018-2019), Orchid Tierney, interviews Katie Rawson (Director of Learning Innovation, Penn Libraries). They review Katie’s journey into the digital humanities, her thoughts on digital tools and resources in pedagogical spaces, and the exciting conceptual possibilities of virtual reality.

In addition to her work at Penn, Katie has published on food in Faulkner's writing, labor in Waffle House, collaboration in the academy, and data curation in the humanities.

Unless otherwise noted, the music used in this episode was sourced from royalty-free music libraries. The artist featured is Blue Dot Sessions. 

Intro Music: "Prisoner of Mars" by Stereo Lab

In today’s episode, Price Lab fellow Julie Napolin interviews scholar, author and “data visionary” Wendy Chun(Canada 150 Chair in New Media, School of Communication at Simon Fraser University). Chun’s current work on digital media draws from her study of Systems Design Engineering and English Literature. She is the author of several books, most recently, Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media, published by MIT in 2016. Chun was a Visiting Scholar at Penn's Center for Media at Risk for the Fall 2018 semester.

Please note, this episode contains a depiction of violence, listener discretion is advised.

Intro music: "Prisoner of Mars" by Stereo Lab

Welcome to the Price Lab Podcast, a series focused on the people who are building, using, and critiquing the digital tools and techniques transforming the humanities. In each episode, friends of the Price Lab will speak to a different scholar about their work and the digital tools and resources shaping their research and pedagogy.

In our first episode, Price Lab Fellow Julie Napolin talks with Jessie Daniels (Prof. of Sociology, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY) about her research and writing on internet expressions of racism and white supremacy. They also delve into how Daniels approaches teaching sociology by weaving together analog and digital resources.

In addition to her work as a professor and speaker, Daniels has authored five books and is currently working on a memoir project about confronting the extremist racist ideology in her own family. You can read more about Daniels work here: www.jessiedaniels.net/

Intro music: "Prisoner of Mars" by Stereo Lab