Experience

When I am not reading, writing, or teaching, I collaborate on projects related to my other interest: the digital humanities. During this time, I have been a major contributor to the Women Writers Vector Toolkit, the Women Writers Project, the NULab for Texts, Maps and Networks, the Digital Integration Teaching Initiative, the Boston Research Center, among other collaborations. For the past two years, I have been a part of the John Quincy Adams Digital Diary project at the Massachusetts Historical Society and various digital initiatives for the Center for Digital Scholarship at the American Philosophical Society. My skills as a historian of medicine have also been used to map the smallpox deaths during the 1721-1722 Boston epidemic for the Historical Epidemics project, and I am transcribing and constructing an open-sourced database on the victims of the 1793 Yellow Fever epidemic in Philadelphia.

I am also producing a digital exhibit related to my dissertation work, called “Visualizing Colonial Philadelphia”. VCP confronts the notion of what it meant to be a city in early America and what “urban” meant in an early colonial context. The project exemplifies ways to extract these histories using digital tools and colonial cartographic data, and shows how digital processes can assist in historical work. An early iteration of this project can be found on this website as I make progress on modeling Philadelphia. Scholarship on this work will be available in the Age of Revolutions in the Digital Age Anthology, out in 2023 through through Cornell University Press and partnered with the Thomas Paine Institute at Iona University.

I also engage with the DH community outside of Northeastern University through the HASTAC Scholar program, and I have participated at DHSI and various national and international DH conferences.