Jeri E. Wieringa
Digital History | American Religion | Data Studies
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What I do
- specialize in 19th century American religion (content) and computational text analysis (method)
- concerned with the epistemological implications of digital tools and techniques and how the humanities can inform and create computational practices (theory)
Currently Focused on:
- Critical curation and data visualization
- Natural language processing with historical texts
- Pipelines for text and data analysis
Computational study of Seventh-day Adventist periodicals and the relationship between gender and millennarianism.
The Tie that Binds
Current Projects
Data-driven study of the DH community on GitHub, particularly the social and coding dynamics at play.
Versions and Values
A "big data" research project into social formation and the construction of religious identities on the social media platform, Parler.
The Parler Project
- Digital Publishing
- Digital Public History
- Web Development
- Coding (Python)
- Critical Data and Digital Studies
How I got here
Additional roles
- Digital Publishing Production Lead (George Mason University Libraries)
- Institutional Repository
- Online Journals
- Currently, Director of the REL Digital Lab
On DH, Research, and Libraries
Collaborative and Cooperative (Ideally)
Overlapping concerns means opportunities for mutually interesting research projects.
But can create challenges ...
Connecting to DH
ACH (Association for Computers and the Humanities)
ADHO (Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations)
- #twitterstorians
- #digitalhumanities
Contact Me
jeriwieringa.com
Happy to chat about DH work and programs!