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Maria Seger replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoHi all! I’m Maria Seger, and I’m currently an assistant professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. I finished my PhD at the University of Connecticut in 2016, and I was part of the inaugural cohort of the Connected Academics in 2015-16. I’m not committed to a lifetime on the tenure track, so I’m looking forward to learning…[Read more]
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Beth Seltzer replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoHi all! I’m Beth Seltzer, and I do digital pedagogy and scholarship as an Educational Technology Specialist at Bryn Mawr College. I have a Ph.D. in Victorian literature. Happy to talk to people about Ed Tech type positions, and to hear about opportunities!
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Stacy Hartman replied to the topic Jobs in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoI’ve just uploaded two PDF’s to the Files section of jobs that were recently posted to Versatile PhD.
One is a 50% position at UC Merced that involves providing logistical support for a grant that builds community partnerships and graduate mentorship in the interdisciplinary humanities. (I imagine they might be willing to supplement the other 50%…[Read more]
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Nicole Marie Gervasio replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoHello everybody! My name is Nicole, and I just received my Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature with a certificate in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies from Columbia University in May 2018. Right now, I’m a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University’s Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. I still spend a lot of…[Read more]
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Stacy Hartman started the topic General Questions in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDo you have a general question about job hunting? Are you looking for an informational interview in a particular field? Post your question to the group here!
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Stacy Hartman replied to the topic Recommended Reading in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoI’ve recently starting compiling a Connected Academics reading list. On the list are the following:
Designing the Professional by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans (muscle your way past the class assumptions and the design thinking cultishness and there is excellent advice)
Not for Profit by Martha Nussbaum (not sure this is her best book but I think…[Read more]
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Stacy Hartman replied to the topic Jobs in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe office of the dean of the graduate school at Princeton has a new position open for a professional development program specialist with a deadline of 1 October.
This job will report to Amy Pszczolkowski, Assistant Dean for Professional Development and friend of Connected Academics.
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Stacy Hartman replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoHi everyone! I’m Stacy Hartman, and I’m the Project Manager of Connected Academics at the MLA. I got my PhD from Stanford in German Studies in 2015 and moved to NYC to start with the MLA a week later. I’m currently working on an edited volume around the topic of transforming graduate education called Mission Driven: Reimagining Graduate Education…[Read more]
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Brian Tholl replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoHi all!
My name is Brian and I’m a PhD candidate at Rutgers University and a Lecturer in Italian at Penn State University. I’m interested in the public humanities and I’m a huge believer in the way in which shared human experience and cross-cultural exchange can develop and improve community relations, especially in the fully digital age of the 2…[Read more]
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Joe Hoffman started the topic Sir Ector had a keen eye for economic development in the discussion
Literature and Economics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoBy coincidence, I wrote this blog post a week before the HC algorithm told me about this group and invited me to join it. Kay the Seneschal
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Brian Tholl started the topic Welcome – read here first! in the discussion
Connected Academics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoWelcome to the Connected Academics group on Humanities Commons! Please read through the following information, and then head over to the Discussion to introduce yourself, where you can also tell us about your goals and what you would like to see from this group!
This is a networking group for academics pursuing a wide range of careers. Feel free…[Read more]
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Caroline Winter started the topic Test post in the discussion
Literature and Economics on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThis is a test post to try out the moderating functions available.
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Lukas Fuchsgruber deposited Experts and Auctioneers in Paris Art Auctions 1852-1862 in the group
Linked Open Data on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoFrom 1852 the Hôtel Drouot was the space where the French auctioneers (Commissaires-Priseurs) – who held a stately sanctioned monopoly – organized their auctions. By processing data from the art auction catalogue repertory by Frits Lugt and the extended version Art Sales Catalogues Online, it is possible to map the networks of art marketing at…[Read more]
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Caroline Winter created the group
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Anna Kijas deposited Engaging in Small Data Rescue in the group
Data Rescue on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoIn late January 2017 conversations began on the Music Library Association (MLA) listserv about data rescue. These conversations were primarily inquiries to see if anyone on the MLA-L was aware of data archiving or rescue efforts underway for vulnerable performing arts and music data on government websites. As a digital scholarship librarian whose…[Read more]
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Jefferson Pooley deposited Scholarly Communications Shouldn’t Just Be Open, but Non-Profit Too in the group
Linked Open Data on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoMuch of the rhetoric around the future of scholarly communication hinges on the “open” label. In light of Elsevier’s recent acquisition of bepress and the announcement that, owing to high fees, an established mathematics journal’s editorial team will split from its publisher to start an open access alternative, Jefferson Pooley argues that the sch…[Read more]
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Jefferson Pooley deposited A Curious Tale of Economics and Common Carriage (Net Neutrality) at the FCC: A Reply to Faulhaber, Singer, and Urschel in the group
Linked Open Data on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThis reply to “The Curious Absence of Economic Analysis at the Federal Communications Commission” (Faulhaber, Singer, & Urschel, 2017) makes three claims. First, we document the paper’s undisclosed origins as a white paper commissioned by an advocacy group with deep ties to the telecommunications industry. Second, we describe two of the authors’…[Read more]
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Sarah Middle deposited Linking UK Arts and Humanities Project Data in the group
Linked Open Data on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoLinked Data techniques were applied to data about the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) projects, in order to retrieve information about the production and use of digital data by projects relating to the Ancient World [poster presentation].
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