Course Schedule

This is the schedule of topics we will cover this semester. The readings (as PDFs and as links to consult) are organized by week in the class Zotero Library. You may subscribe to our class calendar by clicking here. The schedule of topics is:

Week	Zoom Day	Topic	Notes
Week 1	29-Jan	Introductions
Week 2	5-Feb	What is/are Digitial Humanities? What is/are Politics?
	12-Feb	GC Closed
	19-Feb	GC Closed
Week 3	22 Feb	Race, Ethnicity, and Politics	It’s Thursday but GC is on Monday Schedule!
Week 4	26 Feb	DHP Project Reviews- Lightning Talks	Post review by 2-25, Present on 2-26
Week 4	28 Feb	Gender & Sexuality Politics	It’s Wednesday but is GC on Monday Schedule!
Week 5	4 Mar	Indigenous & Decolonial Politics
Week 6	11 Mar	US Politics	Write a midterm self-evaluation post
Week 7	18 Mar	Conflict, Atrocities, and What Comes After
Week 8	25 Mar	Politics, Borders, and People in Motion
Week 9	1 Apr	Human Rights
Week 10	8 Apr	Topic TBD by Class
Week 11	15 Apr	No Class this week- schedule individual meeting to discuss final project
	22 Apr	No Class- Spring Break!
Week 12	29 Apr	No Class Monday- Spring Break! For the rest of the week, read and blog for the next class and work on your final project
Week 13	6 May	Topic TBD by Class
Week 14	13 May	Final Class: Show & Share Final Projects
	20 May	Final date to submit all work	Final Due Date for final blog post and all outstanding work

Priority:

Bluhm, W. T., Hermann, M. G., Murphy, W. F., Nelson, J. S., Pye, L. W., & Committee, A. N. L. (1985). Political Science and the Humanities: A Report of the American Political Science Association. PS, 18(2), 247–259. https://doi.org/10.2307/419102

Comparing the Humanities and Social Sciences in the Digital Age | Digital History and Documentary Film at Lehigh University. https://wordpress.lehigh.edu/lehighdhdocfilm/essays/summer-2015/comparing-the-humanities-and-social-sciences-in-the-digital-age/

Dienstag, J. F. (2016). On Political Theory, the Humanities, and the Social Sciences. Perspectives on Politics, 14(4), 1083–1089. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592716003054

Fiormonte, D. (2017). Digital Humanities and the Geopolitics of Knowledge. Digital Studies/Le Champ Numérique, 7(1), 5. https://doi.org/10.16995/dscn.274

Greenspan, B. The Scandal of Digital Humanities. In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 (2019th ed.). https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled-f2acf72c-a469-49d8-be35-67f9ac1e3a60/section/4b6be68c-802c-41f4-a2a5-284187ec0a5c

Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities. (2016, May 1). Los Angeles Review of Books. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/neoliberal-tools-archives-political-history-digital-humanities

Ramsay, S. (2023). The Politics of Tools. DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly, 17(2). https://dhq-static.digitalhumanities.org/pdf/000690.pdf

Rodriguez-Ortega, N. (2022). Digital Social Sciences and Digital Humanities of the South Materials for a Critical Discussion. In D. Fiormonte, S. Chaudhuri, & P. Ricuarte (Eds.), Global Debates in the Digital Humanities. University of Minnesota Press. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/global-debates-in-the-digital-humanities/section/7b51f36a-1dd8-4f83-9e89-29502d17e131#ch08

Shirazi, R. (2016, May 5). ROUND-UP: Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities (and Responses) [Text]. Dh+lib. https://acrl.ala.org/dh/2016/05/05/neoliberal-tools-and-archives-a-political-history-of-digital-humanities/

Stretch:

Liu, A., Droge, A., Kleinman, S., Thomas, L., Baciu, D. C., & Douglass, J. (2022). What Everyone Says: Public Perceptions of the Humanities in the Media. Daedalus, 151(3), 19–39.

Malazita, J. (2023). Critique is the Steam: Reorienting Critical Digital Humanities across Disciplines. Debates in the Digital Humanities. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/debates-in-the-digital-humanities-2023/section/29e95fb6-b560-4323-b3b0-5585006ce5d6

WE1S https://we1s.ucsb.edu/

Zaagsma, G. (2023). Digital History and the Politics of Digitization. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 38(2), 830–851. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqac050

Baeza Ventura, G., Cotera, M. E., García Merchant, L., Gauthereau, L., & Villarroel, C. (2023). A U.S. Latinx Digital Humanities Manifesto. In M. K. Gold & L. F. Klein (Eds.), Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023. University of Minnesota Press. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/debates-in-the-digital-humanities-2023/section/6fe44fac-6bac-4f1d-bd92-a586833240dc#ch05

Bordalejo, B., & Risam, R. (Eds.). (2019). Intersectionality in Digital Humanities. Arc Humanities Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvs32szz

Documenting Ferguson. http://digital.wustl.edu/ferguson/

Frazier, N., Hyman, C., & Green, H. N. (2023). Black Is Not the Absence of Light: Restoring Black Visibility and Liberation to Digital Humanities. In M. K. Gold & L. F. Klein (Eds.), Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023. University of Minnesota Press. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/debates-in-the-digital-humanities-2023/section/903016db-f92f-40da-8394-3ea3fcc7cef9#ch09

Gallon, K. (2016). Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities. In M. K. Gold & L. F. Klein (Eds.), Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016. University of Minnesota Press. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/debates-in-the-digital-humanities-2016

Gold, M. K., Klein, L. F., Earheart, A. E., & Taylor, T. L. (Eds.). (2016). Pedagogies of Race: Digital Humanities in the Age of Ferguson. In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016. University of Minnesota Press. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/65be1a40-6473-4d9e-ba75-6380e5a72138/section/58ca5d2e-da4b-41cf-abd2-d8f2a68d2914#en215

Hepworth, K., & Church, C. (2019). Racism in the Machine: Visualization Ethics in Digital Humanities Projects. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 012(4).

Hicks-Alcaraz, M. (2022). Piloting the Counter-Memorias Digital Testimonio Project: Blackness in U.S. Latinx and Latin American Racial Politics. The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI), 6(4), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.33137/ijidi.v6i4.38784

Huizar-Hernandez, A., Corsa, A., García, A. E., Rivero, C. L., & Ávila, A. (2022). Contingent Colonialities: Mapping La relación de Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI), 6(4), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.33137/ijidi.v6i4.38774

InfoGuides: Anti-Racism, #BlackLivesMatter, and Civic Action: Data Issues & Sources. https://infoguides.gmu.edu/antiracism-blm/data

Leibensperger, K. (2021). Decolonization Within Latinx Digital Humanities [M.A., Kutztown University of Pennsylvania]. In ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. https://www.proquest.com/publiccontent/docview/2885433839/abstract/9EFB8E59AA944FD2PQ/1

Noble, S. U. (2018). Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. NYU Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1pwt9w5

Posner, M. (2016). What’s Next: The Radical, Unrealized Potential of Digital Humanities |. In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016. University of Minnesota Press. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled/section/a22aca14-0eb0-4cc6-a622-6fee9428a357

Risam, R., & Baker Josephs, K. (Eds.). (2021). The Digital Black Atlantic. University of Minnesota Press. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/the-digital-black-atlantic

Santana, N., Espinal, E., & Rodriguez, A. (2022). Transnational Dominican Activism: Documenting Grassroots Social Movements through ESENDOM. The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI), 6(4), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.33137/ijidi.v6i4.38944

Barnett, F., Blas, Z., Cardenas, M., Gaboury, J., Johnson, J. M., & Rhee, M. (2016). QueerOS: A User’s Manual. In M. K. Gold & L. F. Klein (Eds.), Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016. University of Minnesota Press. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/debates-in-the-digital-humanities-2016

Bordalejo, B., & Risam, R. (Eds.). (2019). Intersectionality in Digital Humanities. Arc Humanities Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvs32szz

Chang, K. K. (2023). The Queer Gap in Cultural Analytics. In M. K. Gold & L. F. Klein (Eds.), Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023. University of Minnesota Press. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/debates-in-the-digital-humanities-2023/section/7f599062-4b03-4d71-a5e6-eec273416c36#ch07

Dhwanigalu – Learning Dialogues with Adolescent Girls at the Margins. (n.d.). Retrieved January 27, 2024, from https://projects.itforchange.net/prakriye/

Gurumurthy, A., & Bharthur, D. (2022). Messy Empowerment: Mapping Digital Encounters in the Margins. In D. Fiormonte, S. Chaudhuri, & P. Ricuarte (Eds.), Global Debates in the Digital Humanities. University of Minnesota Press. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/global-debates-in-the-digital-humanities/section/76a58bf0-186f-4fe0-adb8-4776ae395e17#ch22

Jewett, B. (2022). Cosponsorship Networks in the U.S. Congress: Measuring the Success of Female Legislators [Claremont Graduate University]. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/407

Losh, E., & Wernimont, J. (Eds.). (2018). Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities. University of Minnesota Press. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/bodies-of-information

Sutherland, T., Cifor, M., Cowan, Rault, & Garcia, P. (2023). The Feminist Data Manifest-NO: An Introduction and Four Reflections. In M. K. Gold & L. F. Klein (Eds.), Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023. University of Minnesota Press. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/debates-in-the-digital-humanities-2023/section/16184c7d-eee1-40b2-a168-960d4c4035c4#ch08

Álvarez, M. E., & Fernández Quintanilla, S. (2022). Borderlands Archives Cartography: Bridging Personal, Political, and Geographical Borderlands. In D. Fiormonte, S. Chaudhuri, & P. Ricuarte (Eds.), Global Debates in the Digital Humanities. University of Minnesota Press. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/global-debates-in-the-digital-humanities/section/9f77ad02-3fe8-4528-a999-0b0b414f27d8#ch16

Dhwanigalu – Learning Dialogues with Adolescent Girls at the Margins. https://projects.itforchange.net/prakriye/

Lee Brown, M., Whaanga, H., & Lewis, J. E. (2023). Relation-Oriented AI: Why Indigenous Protocols Matter for the Digital Humanities. In M. K. Gold & L. F. Klein (Eds.), Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023. University of Minnesota Press. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/debates-in-the-digital-humanities-2023/section/98dc1c8f-8583-4428-ac84-17ff072bdcad#ch04

Leterme, C. (2022). Africa’s Digitalization From the Ecological Dilemma to the Decolonization of the Imaginary. In D. Fiormonte, S. Chaudhuri, & P. Ricuarte (Eds.), Global Debates in the Digital Humanities. University of Minnesota Press. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/global-debates-in-the-digital-humanities/section/efb988f2-61e2-4952-ba6a-1bc83f0a5eab#ch24

Parvin, N. (2018). Doing Justice to Stories: On Ethics and Politics of Digital Storytelling. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 4, 515–534. https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2018.248

Pascoe, B. (2020). Mapping Meaning: Learnings from indigenous mapping technology for Australia’s digital humanities mapping infrastructure. DH2020.

Roy, D., & Menon, N. (2022). No “Making,” Not Now: Decolonizing Digital Humanities in South Asia. In D. Fiormonte, S. Chaudhuri, & P. Ricuarte (Eds.), Global Debates in the Digital Humanities. University of Minnesota Press. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/global-debates-in-the-digital-humanities/section/c4526db5-483c-4ba0-932e-1187cc2a7543#ch14

Walter, M., & Suina, M. (2019). Indigenous data, indigenous methodologies and indigenous data sovereignty. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 22(3), 233–243. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2018.1531228

Clark, M. D. (2019). White folks’ work: Digital allyship praxis in the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Social Movement Studies, 18(5), 519–534. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2019.1603104

Documenting Ferguson. http://digital.wustl.edu/ferguson/

Freelon, D., McIlwain, C., & Clark, M. (2018). Quantifying the power and consequences of social media protest. New Media & Society, 20(3), 990–1011. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444816676646

Freelon, D., McIlwain, C. D., & Clark, M. (2016). Beyond the Hashtags: #Ferguson, #Blacklivesmatter, and the Online Struggle for Offline Justice (SSRN Scholarly Paper 2747066). https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2747066

Guo, J., & Liu, S. (2022). From #BlackLivesMatter to #StopAsianHate: Examining Network Agenda-Setting Effects of Hashtag Activism on Twitter. Social Media + Society, 8(4), 205630512211461. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051221146182

InfoGuides: Anti-Racism, #BlackLivesMatter, and Civic Action: Data Issues & Sources. https://infoguides.gmu.edu/antiracism-blm/data

Shahin, S., Nakahara, J., & Sánchez, M. (2024). Black Lives Matter goes global: Connective action meets cultural hybridity in Brazil, India, and Japan. New Media & Society, 26(1), 216–235. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448211057106

Brier, S., & Brown, J. (2011). The September 11 Digital Archive. Radical History Review, 2011(111), 101–109. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1268731

September 11 Digital Archive. https://911digitalarchive.org/

Doškář, J. (2023). The foreign-policy content of selected State of the Union addresses: A discourse analysis [Masaryk University]. https://is.muni.cz/th/ciqgy/Diploma_thesis.pdf

Fowler, J. H. (2006). Connecting the Congress: A Study of Cosponsorship Networks. Political Analysis, 14(4), 456–487. https://doi.org/10.1093/pan/mpl002

Gallery of Data Visualization—The Lie Factor. https://www.datavis.ca/gallery/lie-factor.php

Jewett, B. (2022). Cosponsorship Networks in the U.S. Congress: Measuring the Success of Female Legislators [Claremont Graduate University]. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/407

Lupia, A., Soroka, S., & Beatty, A. (2020). What does Congress want from the National Science Foundation? A content analysis of remarks from 1995 to 2018. Science Advances, 6(33), eaaz6300. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaz6300

Porter, M. A., Mucha, P. J., Newman, M. E. J., & Warmbrand, C. M. (2005). A network analysis of committees in the U.S. House of Representatives. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102(20), 7057–7062. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0500191102

Tam Cho, W. K., & Fowler, J. H. (2010). Legislative Success in a Small World: Social Network Analysis and the Dynamics of Congressional Legislation. The Journal of Politics, 72(1), 124–135. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002238160999051X

Wang, Y. (2020). Understanding congressional coalitions: A discourse network analysis of congressional hearings for the Every Student Succeeds Act. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 28, 119. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.28.4451

Dennis, B. (2021, October 27). Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump. Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/12/13/scientists-are-frantically-copying-u-s-climate-data-fearing-it-might-vanish-under-trump/

Hendler, J., Holm, J., Musialek, C., & Thomas, G. (2012). US Government Linked Open Data: Semantic.data.gov. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 27(3), 25–31. https://doi.org/10.1109/MIS.2012.27

Piotrowski, S., Rosenbloom, D. H., Kang, S., & Ingrams, A. (2018). Levels of Value Integration in Federal Agencies’ Mission and Value Statements: Is Open Government a Performance Target of U.S. Federal Agencies? Public Administration Review, 78(5), 705–716. https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.12937

Wang, V., & Shepherd, D. (2020). Exploring the extent of openness of open government data – A critique of open government datasets in the UK. Government Information Quarterly, 37(1), 101405. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2019.101405

Young, M. M. (2020). Implementation of Digital-Era Governance: The Case of Open Data in U.S. Cities. Public Administration Review, 80(2), 305–315. https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13156

858.ma—An archive of resistance. 858.MA. https://858.ma/

Eyes on Russia Map. https://eyesonrussia.org/

Fiorella, G., Godart, C., & Waters, N. (2021). Digital Integrity: Exploring Digital Evidence Vulnerabilities and Mitigation Strategies for Open Source Researchers. Journal of International Criminal Justice, 19(1), 147–161. https://doi.org/10.1093/jicj/mqab022

France opens its archives on Rwandan genocide to the public. (2021, April 7). https://www.france24.com/en/france/20210407-france-opens-its-archives-on-rwandan-genocide-to-the-public

Gavrilova, S. (2022). Digital Humanities and Memory Wars in Contemporary Russia. In D. Fiormonte, S. Chaudhuri, & P. Ricuarte (Eds.), Global Debates in the Digital Humanities. University of Minnesota Press. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/global-debates-in-the-digital-humanities/section/a5e06c0a-956a-4ad4-8cda-04f7d3c1f76b#ch15

Genocide Archive of Rwanda Collection—TARO. https://txarchives.org/hrdi/finding_aids/00004.xml

Grayson, H., & Rukesha, P. (2017). Digital Archives in a Changing Rwanda. African Research & Documentation, 131, 15–23. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305862X00022494

Koenig, A. (2022). From ‘Capture to Courtroom.’ Journal of International Criminal Justice, 20(4), 829–842. https://doi.org/10.1093/jicj/mqac046

Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror. https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/

Malinova, O. (2021). Politics of Memory and Nationalism. Nationalities Papers, 49(6), 997–1007. https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2020.87

Monroe & Florence Work Today. https://plaintalkhistory.com/monroeandflorencework

Mwambari, D. (2021). Agaciro , vernacular memory, and the politics of memory in post-genocide Rwanda. African Affairs, 120(481), 611–628. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adab031

Talabi, F. O., Aiyesimoju, A. B., Lamidi, I. K., Bello, S. A., Okunade, J. K., Ugwuoke, C. J., & Gever, V. C. (2022). The use of social media storytelling for help-seeking and help-receiving among Nigerian refugees of the Ukraine–Russia war. Telematics and Informatics, 71, 101836. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2022.101836

The Living Archives of Rwandan Exiles and Genocide Survivors in Canada. https://livingarchivesvivantes.org/

White Violence, Black Resistance. https://sites.google.com/site/bkresist

About the Immigrant Stories Project. (n.d.). College of Liberal Arts. https://cla.umn.edu/ihrc/immigrant-stories/about-project

Ahmed, M., Álvarez, M. E., Fernández, S. A., Gil, A., Martinez, M., Sá Pereira, M. P. de, Rodriguez, L., & Risam, R. (2018, June 25). Torn Apart / Separados [Text]. https://xpmethod.columbia.edu/torn-apart/volume/1/

Allen, W. L. (2023). The conventions and politics of migration data visualizations. New Media & Society, 25(6), 1313–1334. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448211019300

Caglar Gencosman, B., & İnkaya, T. (2021). Characterization of Syrian refugees with work permit applications in Turkey: A data mining based methodology. Expert Systems with Applications, 180, 114846. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.114846

CrossMigration. (n.d.). Migration Research Hub. CrossMigration. https://migrationresearch.com

Lê Espiritu Gandhi, E., & Nguyen, V. (Eds.). (2023). The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003131458

Schauwecker, L. Sight and Sound: Counter-mapping the U.S.-Mexico Border Crisis.

Undocumented Migration Project. https://www.undocumentedmigrationproject.org

Bowsher, J. (2023). The digital writing of human rights narratives: Failure, recognition, and the unruly inscriptions of database infrastructures. The Sociological Review, 71(3), 561–580.

Dao, A. (2023). Resisting the inevitable: Human rights and the data society. London Review of International Law, 11(2), 315–348.

Emerson, J., Satterthwaite, M. L., & Pandey, A. V. (2018). The Challenging Power of Data Visualization for Human Rights Advocacy. In M. K. Land & J. D. Aronson (Eds.), New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice (1st ed., pp. 162–187). Cambridge University Press.

Latonero, M. (2018). Big Data Analytics and Human Rights: Privacy Considerations in Context. In M. K. Land & J. D. Aronson (Eds.), New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice (1st ed., pp. 149–161). Cambridge University Press.

Malinova, O. (2021). Politics of Memory and Nationalism. Nationalities Papers, 49(6), 997–1007.

Murray, D., McDermott, Y., & Koenig, K. A. (2022). Mapping the Use of Open Source Research in UN Human Rights Investigations. Journal of Human Rights Practice, 14(2), 554–581.

Projects

Apartheid Heritages. https://apartheidheritagesproject.org/

The Human Rights Documentation Initiative. https://hrdi.lib.utexas.edu/hrdi/about/

CIRI Human Rights Data Project

The Political Terror Scale.

The Syrian Archive

V-Dem

Related Projects:

Disability Maps.

Learn About Disability and Health. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Mapping Disability Experiences During the Covid-19 Pandemic – Exploring how the pandemic has shaped disabled people’s relationship to their environments.

Sorrels, K. (2023, May 12). Disability and Belonging. ArcGIS StoryMaps.

Go back over the readings from Weeks 3 and 4- what did we not get to discuss enough (because of our misplaced Mondays)? How can these readings and projects inform our thinking about the other topics we have covered this semester?

Stretch:

Projects

Further Reading

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