Publications
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Surrender: How the Clinton Administration Completed the Reagan Revolution
(2017)
Michael Meeropol argues that the ballooning of the federal budget deficit was not a serious problem in the 1980s, nor were the successful recent efforts to get it under control the basis for the prosperous economy of the ...
Seeing the Past with Computers: Experiments with Augmented Reality and Computer Vision for History
(2019)
Recent developments in computer technology are providing historians with new ways to see—and seek to hear, touch, or smell—traces of the past. Place-based augmented reality applications are an increasingly common feature ...
Stamping American Memory: Collectors, Citizens, and the Post
(2018)
Winner of the University of Michigan Press / Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) Prize for Notable Work in the Digital Humanities In the age of digital communications, it can ...
Finding Voice: A Visual Arts Approach to Engaging Social Change
(2018)
In Finding Voice, Kim Berman demonstrates how she was able to use visual arts training in disenfranchised communities as a tool for political and social transformation in South Africa. Using her own fieldwork as a case ...
The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny
(2016)
The Resonance of Unseen Things offers an ethnographic meditation on the “uncanny” persistence and cultural freight of conspiracy theory. The project is a reading of conspiracy theory as an index of a certain strain of late ...
Traces of the Old, Uses of the New: The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies
(2015)
Digital Humanities remains a contested, umbrella term covering many types of work in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, linguistics, classics, theater, performance studies, film, media studies, computer ...
Manifesto for the Humanities: Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough Times
(2015)
After a remarkable career in higher education, Sidonie Smith offers Manifesto for the Humanities as a reflective contribution to the current academic conversation over the place of the Humanities in the 21st century. Her ...
Bytes and Backbeats
(2011-09-26)
From Attali's "cold social silence" to Baudrillard's hallucinatory reality, reproduced music has long been the target of critical attack. In Bytes and Backbeats, however, Steve Savage deploys an innovative combination of ...
Ethical Programs: Hospitality and the Rhetorics of Software
(2015)
Living in a networked world means never really getting to decide in any thoroughgoing way who or what enters your “space” (your laptop, your iPhone, your thermostat . . . your home). With this as a basic frame-of-reference, ...
Web Writing: Why and How for Liberal Arts Teaching and Learning
(2015)
Teaching writing across the curriculum with online tools