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Kalani Craig, PhD @kalanicraig.bsky.social · 1d

I’m looking forward to more dev on the OP platform w @mdalmau.bsky.social & Sean Purcell bc they’re both brilliant writing partners. The @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social & outside referee experience was a model for generous peer review. Now to get Part II out there in the world!

pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 3d

Proud to serve as the publishing editor for this fantastic piece. The authors position refusal as an ethical/methodological stance for working with "materials that depend on the objectification of, and through that objectification the commodification of, human subjects." It's a must read!

In the Library with the Lead Pipe @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 3d

The Digital Opaque: Refusing the Biomedical Object by Sean Purcell, Kalani Craig and Michelle Dalmau

www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2025/digital...

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 13d

new article out with these lovelies @eagatti.bsky.social @kalanicraig.bsky.social

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Kalani Craig, PhD @kalanicraig.bsky.social · Sep 11

THE article that traces the years-long dev of Net.Create w @jdanish.bsky.social is out! "Design Based History Research” blends iterative traditions of Design Based Research educational methods w historiography and digital-history tool-design practices. journalofdigitalhistory.org/en/notebook-...

Journal of Digital History

The Journal of Digital History (JDH) is an international, academic, peer-reviewed and open-access journal. JDH will set new standards in history publishing based on the principle of multi-layered arti...

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Ben Schmidt @bschmidt.bsky.social · Jan 4

I'll be at the NYC Hilton for the American Historical Association conference tomorrow in the career contacts room for anyone who wants to talk about history -> technology career paths. Or if anyone else is around and wants to say hi, LMK! #AHA2025 aha.confex.com/aha/2025/web...

138th Annual Meeting (January 3-6, 2025): AHA Career Contacts at the Annual Meeting

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Jeffrey McClurken @jmcclurken.bsky.social · Jan 4

Terrific showing for today’s Digital History Projects Showcase! 16 projects from concept to mature DH projects and everything in between. Thanks to @kalanicraig.bsky.social @historians.org, the many presenters and appreciative audience who joined us. See you next year in Chicago! #DH

Jeffrey McClurken @jmcclurken.bsky.social · Jan 2

Coming to #AHA25 and want to hear about latest digital history projects? Have ?s about how to use dig tools in teaching or research? Join us on Sat @ 130 at the Digital Projects Showcase w/14 lightning talks. Come back @ 3:30 for chance to ask Digital Historians ?s on dig tools/projects/pedagogy.

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American Historical Association @historians.org · Dec 19

In this bonus episode of #HistoryInFocus, @davidtrowbridge.bsky.social speaks with Katharina Matro, Jeff McClurken, @kalanicraig.bsky.social, @joguldi.bsky.social, @johannneem.bsky.social, @thetattooedprof.bsky.social, and @nolauren.bsky.social on the topic of AI and its implications for history.🗃️

“Historians On”: AI in Teaching and Research – AHA

In This Episode Katharina Matro (Social Studies Teacher at Walter Johnson High School) Jeff McClurken (Professor of History and American Studies; Chief of Staff to the President, University of Mary Wa...

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Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social · Jan 16

Today’s @nytimes.com story about the Cal State strike. I am begging you to email me or do any research. They have $8.6 billion in cash and investments and $2.5 billion in reserves. THERE IS NO DEFICIT. Interview me! I will send you links! Care about nearly 500k students as much as fake plagiarism!

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American Historical Association @historians.org · Dec 7

The American Historical Review’s December 2023 issue is now available! The articles in this issue explore histories of medicine, gender, disability, race, and agency from the early modern period to the 20th century. 🗃️ doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...

The cover of the December 2023 issue of the American Historical Review. The cover is blue with American Historical Review in white text. The cover image depicts a selection of blue-and-white ceramic plates created by artist Yee I-Lann. The plates appear to point back to the 17th-century Asian porcelain trade but in fact are decorated with scenes of everyday contemporary urban life in Malaysia and Indonesia. Collection of Singapore Art Museum. Image courtesy of the artist and Silverlens.

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Kalani Craig, PhD @kalanicraig.bsky.social · Sep 15

Goal is to show them something practical in the short term, plus the tools to imagine a more code-based approach that they can aspire to, so they can grow as code practitioners and do the H part of DH work (maybe a little more slowly but still) at the same time.

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Kalani Craig, PhD @kalanicraig.bsky.social · Sep 15

Back and forth bw spreadsheet and text editor for data cleaning and column delimiting using VLOOKUP and simple /r and /t search and replace processes. CONCAT to put spreadsheet fields into (usually) a YML template. Then I demo file splitting/auto naming in Python using their spreadsheet output.

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · Aug 29

Programming Historian is looking for an English editor to join its editorial board. Role includes running peer review for assigned submissions and working with authors to improve their work:

Vacancies | Programming Historian

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · Sep 7

Congratulations to my colleague Jessica Otis (who we haven't enticed over here yet) on receiving an NEH grant to develop a DH summer institute called The Mathematical Humanists: rrchnm.org/news/jessica...

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Kalani Craig, PhD @kalanicraig.bsky.social · Sep 6

Also me, please! Thanks for organizing.

Kalani Craig, PhD @kalanicraig.bsky.social · Sep 2

Woohoo!!!!

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · Sep 1

And here's what I feel quite certain about:

1. I will have contracts for two books (one collaboratively written/edited with @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social) in the next few months from absolute dream presses. I have won major awards and fellowships, including for teaching. I don't deserve this. And--

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Kalani Craig, PhD @kalanicraig.bsky.social · Sep 1

(With an extra special shout out to #HouseAwesomesauce @jdanish.bsky.social, Medium-Sized Human and Mom for living through it with me.) 8/X

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Kalani Craig, PhD @kalanicraig.bsky.social · Sep 1

Family, friends, shrubbers, avocados, collaborators, teammates: You all have been, and continue to be, anchors and beacons. Your support through the everyday stuff and encouragement for the new things has saved my ass more times than I can count. Thank you! 7/X

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Kalani Craig, PhD @kalanicraig.bsky.social · Sep 1

So many people have advocated on my behalf, for job stability and resources, for a workplace that can accommodate change and still cohere around what it means to think together. I'll spend the rest of my academic career trying to do that for other people. 6/X

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Kalani Craig, PhD @kalanicraig.bsky.social · Sep 1

Almost all of the dossier was produced under contract as an NTT faculty, with work that blends community engagement, pedagogy and collaborative digital history. That's also proof of an academy that has become more generous (in some places). 5/X

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Kalani Craig, PhD @kalanicraig.bsky.social · Sep 1

I'm grateful, and I hope we continue to live up to the spirit of those guidelines. 4/X

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Kalani Craig, PhD @kalanicraig.bsky.social · Sep 1

At the same time, converting mid-career is an indicator that small groups of individual people can push back against big systemic problems. IU History redid its guidelines entirely to address what it means to produce new knowledge, not just for me but for ALL of us. 3/X

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Kalani Craig, PhD @kalanicraig.bsky.social · Sep 1

It's hard to be truly joyful in an artificially austere academic world that robs friends & colleagues of opportunities, imposes divisions & restrictions that harm all of us. Division mows over our strengths & unique perspectives, making it harder to contribute 2 shared exploration/understanding. 2/x

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Kalani Craig, PhD @kalanicraig.bsky.social · Sep 1

I fell into a full-time NTT clinical-faculty appointment at IU 8 years ago. About a month ago, I submitted a dossier for tenure after a reclassification of the work I do (tenuredossier.kalanicraig.com). I have many feelings about what that means. A thread 1/X

Dossier Highlights

A digital dossier for tenure as Associate Professor of History.

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Kalani Craig, PhD @kalanicraig.bsky.social · Aug 24

That is spectacular.

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Kalani Craig, PhD @kalanicraig.bsky.social · Aug 18

Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities repping early medieval material culture and makerspace culture at IU new faculty orientation.

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