Most exciting essay I've read in my field lately. It shows how print technology led to an explosion of new publishers and geographical dispersion out of NYC—and explains how this changes what we thought we knew about literary history academic.oup.com/alh/article-...

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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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