DH Lunch: History Department
GHSA is very pleased to host a panel on career opportunities in the Digital Humanities.
This panel will feature five speakers who work in a digital humanities field at UVA or in Charlottesville. Our speakers will present their current digital humanities projects, talk about what got them interested in this work, and their career paths. This is an exciting opportunity for graduate students to find out more about the many digital humanities career fields that exist!
Panelists:
*Loren Moulds, Digital Collections Librarian and Head of Digital Scholarship and Preservation, UVA School of Law
-Loren leads the UVA Law Library's efforts to develop online research tools and to promote, create, and preserve its digital collections.
*Jim Ambuske, Horatio and Florence Farmer Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Humanities, UVA School of Law
-Jim leads the construction of the Scottish Court of Session Digital Archive, as well as the 1828 Catalogue Project of the University of Virginia Law Library (which reconstructs the original collection of legal texts purchased for the first UVA library under the direction of Thomas Jefferson).
*Randi Lewis Flaherty, Special Collections Librarian, UVA School of Law
-Randi works in the UVA Law Special Collections to promote and support research in the Library’s archival, rare book, and digital collections.
*Jeremy Boggs, Design Architect, UVA Scholars' Lab
-Jeremy focuses on front-end development, user interface, user experience, and aesthetics for Scholars’ Lab projects. In addition to helping faculty and students on their research projects, he keeps office hours and does research and teaching for Makerspace.
*Erica Cavanaugh, Project Developer, Center for Digital Editing; Research Editor, Washington Papers
-Erica makes historical documents accessible and understandable through the use of open source tools, platforms, and visualizations. She works primarily with documentary editions such as the Financial Papers of George Washington, the Papers of Martin Van Buren, and the John Dickinson Writings Project. She helps the transition of these projects to a web based content management system.