This paper reports on a project of modeling and datafying knowledge in a legacy catalog (Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden in den Archiven der neuen Bundesländer (Sources for Jewish History in Archives in the New Federal States of Germany)) that took place in September 2022 during the first DH Jewish Hackathon1 organized by the Moses Mendelssohn…[Read more]

Report on negotiations for academic jobs, drawing from stories from over 300 faculty members.

Review of the book “Archival Silences: Missing, Lost and, Uncreated Archives” edited by Michael Moss and David Thomas. Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2021.

Wielded uncritically, the term ‘archival silences’ says more about our inability (or unwillingness) to see beyond the written text, than about the presence of silences in archives. This essay discusses the concept of archival silences as a starting point for archivists to help our users engage critically and generatively with our collections.

Higher Calling is a project for everyone who decided to become a scholar because they believed in the mission of higher education. “Finding Your Purpose” is a workbook to help all of us navigate the contradictions between the work we are driven to do and the conditions we face in our working lives.

“Finding Your Purpose” offers guided questio…[Read more]