Incredibly honored to receive the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History for Postal Intelligence! 📯📫🗃️

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Another lecture I got obsessed with was this one from last year, on the history of immigration data docs.google.com/presentation...

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Occasionally I get obsessed with giving a particular lecture, which is what happened with this one on the co-invention of race and data. IDK how useful it is without my notes but all the images are linked with sources & there are lots of links to further reading. docs.google.com/presentation...

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9 years ago I wrote about parallels between the idea of “mechanical objectivity” outlined in Daston & Galison’s book Objectivity & the rhetoric of “distant reading” in DH Prepping for today’s class discussing Objectivity, it strikes me that LLMs are forcing culture writ large to confront this myth

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Tomorrow.

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