I’ve been spending a lot of time of late clearing out the house my parents lived in from 1965-2009 and among the many, many boxes of junk in the attic I found some old folders of mine from (shudder) high school. Among the many things I found was an editorial I had clipped from the…
An Intern to Be Proud Of
My undergraduate student intern has completed her installation of photographs from the first days of the Berlin Wall in a show she calls Halt! Grenze. She did fantastic work and the show is generating a fair amount of foot traffic already. Her show is part of a larger effort called Freedom Without Walls, sponsored by…
What We Did Last Summer
Digital Campus is back on the air after a summer break. Although we don’t reveal much about what we did during the summer, we do talk a lot about what the world of digital humanities has been up to over the past several months. Take a listen, see what you think, and give us some…
Internships in History
This semester I’m fortunate to have the opportunity — two opportunities really — to supervise an undergraduate and a graduate student working on two very different internships. The typical history internship is one where the student works at a client site off campus and the supervising professor simply makes sure something that has academic merit…