Current Roles
Digital Humanities Fellow, JSTOR Labs
Faculty, Mike Ilitch School of Business, Wayne State University
Past Roles
Digital Scholarship Specialist, University Libraries at UNC Chapel Hill
Manager of Digital Projects, Detroit Historical Society
Faculty, Humanities, Lawrence Technological University
Current Projects
Digital Scholar Workbench
A platform for teaching and learning text analysis using Binder, Jupyter, and Python.
- Getting Started with Jupyter Notebooks
- Python Basics I
- Python Basics II
- Python Basics III
- Exploring Metadata
- Exploring Word Frequencies
- Finding Significant Words using TF/IDF
- LDA Topic Modeling
On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance
A research project using machine-learning to discover Jim/Jane Crow congressional laws passed in the state of North Carolina. Funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
JSTOR Access for Higher Education in Prison
A project to bring JSTOR content for free to prisoners pursuing higher education. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The Plant Humanities Initiative
Developing authoring tools for environmental storytelling with Linked Open Data, GeoJSON, and IIIF. Funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Past Projects
Detroit 67
An IMLS medal-winning community history project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1967 civil rights uprising in Detroit.
Skills
Soft
Project management, community building, technical training, grant writing
Hard
Text Analysis, Python, Jupyter, JSON
