Author: jabauer
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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…
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Desiderata for A Digital Humanist: My Ada Lovelace Day Tribute to Elli Mylonas
So I always forget about Ada Lovelace Day. Maybe it’s because my childhood hero was Marie Curie . . . and Madeline Albright — clearly I was always going to end up in DH. But this year is important, because I want to highlight a woman I have worked with for three years, and who…