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I’m very belatedly joining the Praxis Fellows blog after more than a semester of meaning to write this post and not writing it. Let me start with the word that has been keeping me busy instead. Prosopopoeia Pro-so-po-PEE-a. It comes from the Greek prosopon (“face,” “mask”) and poiein (“to make”),…
Winnie E. Pérez Martínez’s post on the Scholars’ Lab blog this week got me thinking. In “Breadth and Depth, a Self-Centered Dialectic,” she revisits how we discuss breadth and depth as two approaches to digital humanities professional development. In this framing, one that I have put forward myself, we can…
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about that canonical debate around depth vs. breadth in digital humanities (DH). I remember initially my reaction was feeling that “true” DHers should be both, that this was an aptitude anyone could and should develop in the spirit of the discipline.1 After much method…
This blog, in a lot of ways, is the result of putting into action my previous blog, and to get a better gist of what the workshop itself entailed, please see that blog. In running a workshop on GIS mapping using 3D-printed maps and pins, one conclusion, point of error,…