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S2E6: The Fear of Getting Scooped

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Topics: The American Historical Association conference, Machines in the Valley, sharing work in progress, open research notebooks, and the myth of the individual scholar.

Show Notes

Open Notebook History | W. Caleb McDaniel

  • What would happen if historians made their research notes public? What would it look like to make our notebooks "open source"?

    • 129th Annual Meeting (January 2-5, 2015): Digital Pedagogy for History: Lightning Round

    • Using the "lightning round" method of spreading ideas in the digital humanities, this experimental panel features one-minute expositions on innovative projects and cool ideas in digital history for teaching and learning. Five or more panelists will be invited to register via Twitter at the meeting. Audience members will also be invited to join the lightning round.

      • 129th Annual Meeting (January 2-5, 2015): Digital Scholarship, Academic Careers, and Tenure

      • The digital revolution is disrupting long-established systems within the academy for tenure, promotion, and careers, offering both new opportunities and remarkable challenges for the next generation of historians. The AHA, in response, recently charged a committee to draft guidelines for evaluating digital scholarship in T&P. This roundtable will provide a ground-level discussion of the role of digital scholarship in early-career scholars, as session panelists share how digital scholarship fit into their work on the tenure clock, offered them alternative academic careers based on their digital projects, and the nature of peer review after the digital turn. They will also discuss how the MLA‘s publication of guidelines for evaluating digital scholarship could be applied to historians.

        • Amazon.com: The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890: Steven Hahn: Books

        • Despite the vast changes in plantation agriculture following the Civil War and Reconstruction, the lot of small farmers was little improved. Examining the nonplantation region of upcountry Georgia as a microcosm of the South, Steven Hahn showed how farmers were buffeted by such forces as the unravelling of antebellum household economy, the development of market forces, the growth of a new class of merchants-landlords, and rising tensions between town and countryside--and how their resentments fueld the Populist movement at the end of the 19th century.

          • Lincoln Mullen Home

          • I am an assistant professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University, working on digital history and the history of American religions.

            • W. Caleb McDaniel

            • My name is W. Caleb McDaniel. I‘m an assistant professor of history at Rice University and a scholar of the nineteenth-century United States. I am also a Board Member and social media director for Historians Against Slavery.

              • Village Vanguard | History

              • Of New York's great jazz rooms, the Village Vanguard has the edge in terms of historical pedigree, sound, unique physical space, and ever-broadening booking policy, representing jazz across many generations and aesthetic viewpoints.

                • Machines in the Valley

                • Machines in the Valley is a digital history project that serves as a companion to Jason's dissertation.

                  • Thank you for listening. -- @Elijah_Meeks, @jaheppler, @pfzenke.

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