Category «Teaching»

What’s Next for Humanities Graduate Education?

Below are some thoughts in response to the pre-meeting questionnaire for the Scholarly Communication Institute’s fall meeting on graduate education. They’re certainly not fully formed, but they represent a look at how I enter this conversation. No one will argue that the current state of graduate education in the humanities is without its problems. There …

Because I Have to: When DH is a Requirement

In the last couple of years, we have seen an encouraging focus on transforming graduate education to include a range of digital humanities theories and practices. The wonderful folks at the Scholars Lab have launched their Praxis Program, and with support from the Mellon Foundation, through the Scholarly Communications Institute they are doing much needed …

Agile (Digital) Public History: Preparing a New Generation of Cultural Heritage Professionals

[This post was inspired by a panel on the Envisioning the Future of Public History Training at National Council of Public History 2012 in Milwaukee.] The increasing interest number of courses and concentrations focusing on public history suggests that we need to have a serious conversation about what are the skills that are necessary for …

On DH Work Load and Creativity

I shouldn’t be writing this. I should be commenting on student project proposals and working on an article that is three weeks overdue. And, that is exactly why I’m writing this. Recently at RRCHNM we’ve been having a lot of discussion about why some of us offer much less in the way of public commentary …