Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Digital History @ GMU

The George Mason University, Department of History and Art History, home of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, invites applications for a tenure-track position in Digital History at the rank of Assistant Professor. The teaching load is 2-2. Qualifications: While the historical field is open, candidates must have the ability to teach …

Always Looking Backward? (In a bad way)

Today the American Historical Association posted a statement on embargoing completed dissertations that was drafted by the AHA Council and approved on July 19. This statement cites no concrete evidence for its conclusions and flies in the face of what many of us who are involved in the mission to transform scholarly publishing see happening …

Threshold Concepts for Digital History?

Most of you know that I’m teaching an undergraduate Digital History course this semester that satisfies the IT requirement for students in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at GMU. We’ve just pushed into the ninth week of the semester, and I’m doing some reflecting on how things are going. Even though this course …