DH Kitchen: Assessing Digital Humanities Scholarship
Join us for a special DH Kitchen/Humanities Conversations lecture on Tuesday, October 18 at 5:15 p.m. in the ZSR Library Auditorium (ZSR 404). Todd Presner will be presenting a talk entitled, “Assessing Digital Humanities Scholarship: Challenges, Opportunities, and Perspectives.” (Read the preview: Presner’s Journal of Digital Humanities article, “How to Evaluate Digital Scholarship.”)
Todd Presner is Professor of Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies at the University of California Los Angeles. Since 2011, he is the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies. He is also the Chair of the UCLA Digital Humanities Program, which offers an undergraduate minor and graduate certificate, and faculty co-PI on the “Urban Humanities” initiative at UCLA. His research focuses on European intellectual history, the history of media, visual culture, digital humanities, and cultural geography.
Presner is the author or co-author of four books, as well as the founder and director of HyperCities, a collaborative, digital mapping platform that explores the layered histories of city spaces. Awarded one of the first “digital media and learning” prizes by the MacArthur Foundation/HASTAC in 2008, HyperCities is an interactive, web-based research and teaching environment for authoring and analyzing the cultural, architectural, and urban history of cities.
How does Presner conceive of DH developments over the five years since “How to Evaluate Digital Scholarship” first came out? Which of the assessment guidelines Presner laid out have which higher ed constituents found effective? Have new ambiguities emerged? What do Academic Review Committees, Chairs, Deans, and Provosts in the humanities here at Wake Forest wonder about digital scholarship and its becoming evaluatable? Come find out!
Our goal
The DH Community is a program of Wake Forest's Humanities Institute. We are faculty from across campus interested in investigating the emergence of digital humanities as a field of study, and its relevance and usefulness as a research and teaching tool in the humanities.Join the conversation!
Use your Wake Forest username and password to login and contribute to DH Talk.
Tag Cloud
administration advocacy alan liu Artificial Intelligence big data careers close reading cloud crowdsourcing database design definitions DH2014 digital curation digital pedagogy digital projects digital scholarship digitization distant reading funding hastac history internet language liberal arts manuscripts maps media collections methods multimedia multimodal net neutrality organization pedagogy peer review quantitative analysis resource science Stanford DH statistics symposium teaching textual analysis THATCamp transcription word frequency