Author: jabauer
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Try to Remember: 20 Years of Living in a Post September 11th World
This blog post was written on September 11, 2021. For some reason it did not make the migration to the new website, so I have reposted it on the 23rd Anniversary. This anniversary is not the big one for me. That was last year, the 19th anniversary of the attacks on September 11th. Given all…
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When the Void Screams Back: Best Practices for Living with the Risk of Online Abuse
This past Halloween I was a featured speaker in Women in Cybersecurity‘s (WiCyS) CyberSecurity Awareness Month speaker series “Secure You.” WiCyS is an fantastic organization and I was delighted to be able to speak with (mostly) students across the United States about the risk of online abuse and give them strategies to determine their own…
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This is why we can’t have nice things: Elizabeth Warren, Misogyny, and the Death of Expertise
As I watched the results of Super Tuesday roll in I felt my heart breaking. Elizabeth Warren was my candidate, but she was so much more than that. As a fellow woman and policy wonk, Warren’s compassion, indignation, and attention to the small details of structural change made me believe that there was a way…
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Ursula K. Le Guin, Marie Kondo, and moving on
A year ago today Ursula K. Le Guin died. I cannot overstate the importance of her work to my life. In her honor, I decided to spend a year reading works by women authors only (with an exception for work materials or other necessary texts). Over the past year I have rediscovered and been introduced…
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Digital Humanities, Digital Scholarship, and Digital Libraries: Fuzzy Boundaries of a False Trichotomy
If there is one thing that unites digital humanities practitioners, it is our aversion to defining ‘Digital Humanities.’ I get it. I really do. But defining and redefining DH on a regular and ongoing basis comes with the territory. Especially in today’s academic and GLAM sector [note]GLAM stands for Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums.[/note] climate…
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Has anyone seen a sheep?: Ada Lovelace Day Tribute to Deb Verhoeven
This Ada Lovelace Day I want to stop and thank a woman who is making the Digital Humanities Community a more just and scholarly place: Deb Verhoeven. I have had the extraordinary privilege of working with and for many amazing women in DH. In fact, I would consider my intellectual DH heritage to be distinctly…
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Baking Gingerbread, as a DH project
Earlier today I was trying to put together slides for a workshop called “Getting Started in DH.” And I just couldn’t get started. For the record, I have given versions of this workshop more times than I can remember. I have slides from those workshops, and looking them over, I despaired. DH is so big,…
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For the Love of it?: Alt-Ac Reflections on finishing the PhD
When I was a bright-eyed and enthusiastic undergrad, I applied to PhD programs in history. I have a very strong memory of sitting in my future advisor’s office and asking him the most important question I could think of: “What, in your opinion, makes a good dissertation?” He responded immediately: “Passion. Passion is what separates…
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Ads on LinkedIn targeting women make me want to delete my account
I have a LinkedIn profile. As someone who is about to hire three programmers to work in my research center at Princeton University, I may find it helpful in reaching top candidates. That’s assuming I don’t delete my account over the insulting banner ads I am treated to almost every time I log in. First…
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The value of non-rare books: paperback musings of a digital humanist
Sometime last January I realized I was book-deprived. Since September I had been shuttling back and forth among my new office in Princeton, my rented room in town, and the apartment I used to live in with my husband in Boston. One Saturday morning in snowbound Boston I awoke in my old bed to a…