Yesterday I began a new blog site called Human Trafficking in Historical Perspective. This site is the online research and writing space I’m going to use for my next book project — a project still in its early days mode. For a long time now I’ve been thinking about what happens when the entire scholarly…
Hacking the Academy — the Book
I’m pleased to announce that Hacking the Academy is now available in its online edition from the University of Michigan’s Digital Culture series. As my colleague Dan Cohen explains in his post on how the book came about, one should be careful about what one wishes for when it comes to a “hack” of a…
The Digital Past as Seen From Switzerland
My friend and colleague Peter Haber of the historical seminar at the University of Basel (and co-editor with Jan Hodel of the excellent blog Hist.net) has just published an excellent book that everyone who can read German needs to read: Digital Past: Geschichtswissenschaft im digitalen Zeitalter. The book provides an excellent overview of the history…
Multilingual Publishing
Sitting her comfortably in Virginia, I’m quite happy to bathe in an English-only sea of words. So much of the content on the Internet is in English these days that it’s easier and easier to ignore everything interesting taking place on online islands where English either isn’t spoken, or just isn’t used on websites. As…