Project Scholarship

The project team and members of the wider community are involved in a number of scholarly initiatives related to our work here at The Programming Historian. These include events, journal articles, reviews (of us by the community), and posters. If you are conducting academic research using this project please contact our publishing assistant Anisa Hawes.

Original Programming Historian

• William J. Turkel and Alan MacEachern, The Programming Historian 1st edition (Network in Canadian History & Environment: 2007-2008).
• Japanese translation of William J. Turkel and Alan MacEachern, The Programming Historian, 1st edition (Network in Canadian History & Environment: 2007-2008).

Reviews

• Björn Ekström, Elisa Tattersall Wallin and Hana Marčetić, ‘Programming Historian: Novice-friendly tutorials on digital methods’, Tidskrift för ABM, Vol. 5, no 1 (2020), pp. 71-75.
• Dries Daems, ‘A Review and Roadmap of Online Learning Platforms and Tutorials in Digital Archaeology’, Advances in Archaeological Practice, vol. 8, issue 1 (2020), pp. 87-92.
• Martin Dröge, ‘Review of: The Programming Historian’, H-Soz-Kult (2019).
• Priscila Pilatowsky Goñi, ‘Reseña a The programming historian’, Revista de Humanidades Digitales, vol. 2 (2018).
• Lincoln Mullen, ‘Review of the Programming Historian’, The Journal of American History, vol. 103, no. 1 (2016), pp. 299-301.
• Cameron Blevins, ‘Review of the Programming Historian’, The Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy, vol. 8 (2015).

Published Research

• Eric Brasil, ‘pyHDB - Ferramenta Heurística para a Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira: utilizando técnicas de web scraping para a pesquisa em História’, História Da Historiografia: International Journal of Theory and History of Historiography, 15(40) (2022), 186–217.
• Matthew Lincoln, Sarah Melton, Jennifer Isasi, François Dominic Laramée, ‘Relocating Complexity: The Programming Historian and Multilingual Static Site Generation’, Digital Humanities Quarterly 16, 2 (2022).
• Jennifer Isasi and Antonio Rojas Castro, ‘¿Sin equivalencia? Una reflexión sobre la traducción al español de recursos educativos abiertos’, Hispania, 104, no. 4 (2021), 613-624.
• Adam Crymble and Maria José Afanador Llach, ‘The Globally Unequal Promise of Digital Tools for History: UK and Colombia Case Study’ in Adele Nye (ed.) Teaching History for the Contemporary World (Springer, 2021), 85-98.
• Daniel Alves, ‘Ensinar Humanidades Digitais sem as Humanidades Digitais: um olhar a partir das licenciaturas em História’, Revista EducaOnline, v. 15, n. 2 (2021).
• Adam Crymble, Technology & the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age, (University of Illinois Press, 2021).
• Anna-Maria Sichani, James Baker, Maria José Afanador Llach, and Brandon Walsh, ‘Diversity and Inclusion in Digital Scholarship and Pedagogy: The Case of The Programming Historian’, Insights, (2019).
• Katrina Navickas and Adam Crymble, ‘From Chartist Newspaper to Digital Map of Grass-roots Meetings, 1841-44: Documenting Workflows’, Journal of Victorian Culture, (2017).
• Adam Crymble, ‘Identifying and Removing Gender Barriers in Open Learning Communities: The Programming Historian’, Blended Learning in Practice, (2016), 49-60. [pre-print pdf]
• Fred Gibbs, ‘Editorial Sustainability and Open Peer Review at Programming Historian’, DH Commons, Vol. 1 (2015).
• Shawn Graham, Ian Milligan, and Scott Weingart, Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian’s Macroscope, (Imperial College Press, 2015).

Reports

• Incllewsion and the Programming Historian, ‘Initial Accessibility Testing: Summary of Findings’, (2021).
• Penny Andrews and the Programming Historian, ‘The Programming Historian: developing and sustaining impact in the Global South’ (2020).
• Amy Kavanagh and the Programming Historian, ‘Programming Historian – Access for visually impaired researchers’, (n.d.).

Workshops & Events

• María José Afanador Llach, Jennifer Isasi, Riva Quiroga, ‘Sobre Programming Historian en español y cómo contribuir a la publicación’, Universidad de los Andes [Online], (10 May 2023).
• Riva Quiroga, ‘#SemanaHD: Introducción al web scraping usando R. Parte 1: extracción de texto, Parte 2: extracción de tablas’, Universidad de los Andes [Online], (8-9 May 2023).
• Jimmy Medeiros, ‘#SemanaHD: Aprendendo a analisar dados com R com base em lições do Programming Historian’, Universidad de los Andes [Online], (8 May 2023).
• Nicolás Vaughan, ‘Taller Introducción al marcado TEI’, Universidad de los Andes [Online], (13-14 March 2023).
• Miguel Cuandros & Anthony Picón, ‘Georreferenciación de mapas históricos con Map Warper’, Universidad de los Andes [Online], (2-3 March 2023).
• Jennifer Isasi, ‘Crear una exhibición digital mínima e interactiva con CollectionBuilder,’ Universidad de los Andes [Online], (9-10 February 2023).
• Gisele Almeida, Daniel Alves & Eric Brasil, ‘Conheça o Programming Historian em português,’ Programming Historian, [Online], (25 January 2023).
• Jessica Parr, Joana Vieira Paulino & Nicolas Vaughan, ‘Teaching with Programming Historian,’ Programming Historian [Online], (16 December 2022).
• Daniel van Strien, ‘Computer Vision for the Humanities’, British Library, Digital Scholarship Training Programme, (17 November 2022).
• Riva Quiroga, ‘Aprende a crear tutoriales para Programming Historian’, Programming Historian [Online], (16 November 2022).
• Isasi, Jennifer. ‘Programming Historian: A Collaborative Project to Put Programming Within the Reach of Humanists’, Language Technologies for Digital Humanities, within the Global Digital Humanities degree, University of Mondragón, Spain (14 November 2022).
• Sofia Papastamkou, Participation in the workshop ‘Formation et compétences pour les différents types d’acteurs : pratiques pédagogiques et didactique’, coordinated by Dorothée Benhamou-Suesser and Madeleine Géroudet. ResPaDon project. Bibliothèque Nationale, France, (6 October 2022).
• Daniel Alves, Adam Crymble, Victor Gayol and Lucia Michielin, ‘Digital Humanities Roundtable: ‘Where’ affects ‘How’ we teach’’, University College London, United Kingdom, (8 September 2022).
• Gisele Almeida & Anisa Hawes, ‘History Past, Present & Future - The IHR Centenary Festival’, Institute of Historical Research & Senate House, United Kingdom, (15 July 2022).
• Sofia Papastamkou, Hugues Pecout, Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq, Timothée Giraud, Gwenaëlle Patat, Margot Mellet, Servanne Monjour & Nicolas Sauret, ‘Programming Historian en français, Rzine, … & Tutos : Faire communauté autour des dispositifs et des formats alternatifs du savoir’, Colloque Humanistica 2022: Association francophone des humanités numériques, (18 May 2022).
• Jennifer Isasi & Brandon Walsh with Gabi Kirilloff, ‘Programming Historian Workshop on Twine in the Classroom’, Association for Computers and the Humanities, United States (13 April 2022).
• Daniel Alves & Joana Vieira Paulino, ‘O Programming Historian em português e o ensino das Humanidades Digitais’, 2.º Seminário CEComp-HD, Centro de Estudos Comparatistas da Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, (23 March 2022).
• Adam Crymble & Anisa Hawes, ‘Training the Teacher: Giving your first Digital History Workshop’, Institute of Historical Research, United Kingdom (18 November 2021).
• Jennifer Isasi & Brandon Walsh, ‘Programming Historian Book Club’, Association for Computers and the Humanities, United States (October - November 2021).
• Programming Historian em português, ‘Verão com Ciência 2021’, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal (September 2021).
• Adam Crymble, ‘Teach Digital History Well’, UCL, United Kingdom (29 April 2021).
• Silvia Gutiérrez, Jairo Melo & Riva Quiroga, ‘Datos Abiertos y Humanidades Digitales’, in Open Data Day 2021, virtual (6 March 2021).
• Joshua Ortiz Baco, Daniel Alves, Jimmy Medeiros, Luis Ferla, ‘Programming Historian em português’ in I Jornada Nacional de Humanidades Digitais, IBICT (13 October 2020).
• Adam Crymble, ‘Documenting Your Digital Methods’, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (27 May 2020).
• Adam Crymble & Jessica Parr, ‘Programming Historian Silent Disco’, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (18 May 2020).
• Adam Crymble, ‘Do You Need to Learn Programming?’, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (14 May 2020).
• Adam Crymble, ‘Python for Humanists’, University of London, United Kingdom (31 October 2019).
• Víctor Gayol, ‘Introducción a la Historia Digital - The Programming Historian en español’, Maestría en Estudios históricos Interdisciplinarios, División de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad de Guanajuato, México (1-5 October 2018).
• Adam Crymble, Maria José Afanador Llach, José Antonio Motilla, ‘Digital Humanities Skills for Latin American Scholarship’, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia (1-3 August 2018) - funded by the British Academy.
• Victor Gayol, ‘Introducción a las Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales. The Programming Historian en español – COLMICH’, El Colegio de Michoacán (September 2017).
• Fred Gibbs, ‘Digital History @UM: The Programming Historian’, University of Michigan (27 January 2017).
• Adam Crymble, ‘Enhancing Digital Skills Applied to History’, North-West University, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa (20-22 June 2016).
• Adam Crymble and Justin Colson, ‘Intro to Geocoding’, Institute of Historical Research, London, (19 April 2016).
• Carys Brown, James Baker, Adam Crymble, ‘Defining Effective Digital History Mentorship’, University of Cambridge (15 March 2016).
• Adam Crymble, ‘Intro to Data Mining’, Institute of Historical Research, London (2 February 2016).
• James Baker, ‘Programming Historian Live’, Software Sustainability Institute, London (19 October 2015).
• Miriam Posner, ‘Digital Project Consultations’, American Studies Association, University of Toronto (10 October 2015)
• Adam Crymble, ‘Python Programming for Humanists’, Day of Digital Ideas, University of Edinburgh (26 May 2015).

Posters, Conference Papers, & Invited Talks

• James Baker & Anisa Hawes, ‘Research skills from a researcher’s perspective: introducing the Programming Historian’, Jisc Digifest, Birmingham, United Kingdom, (7 March 2023).
• Daniel Alves & Joana Vieira Paulino, ‘The Programming Historian em português: a step forward towards digital literacy in the social sciences and humanities’, Humanities Going Digital: teaching, training and research experiences, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal (2-3 February, 2023).
• Marie Flesch, ‘Présentation du Programming Historian en français’, Séminaire CENHTOR, MSH Lorraine, Nancy, France (24 January 2023).
• Riva Quiroga, ‘Open Review in Journals’ Roundtable discussion at XI International Conference BIREDIAL-ISTEC, (7 October 2022).
• James Baker, Paola Marchionni, Jo Pugh, Jon Reades, Yann Ryan, Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Peter Webster, & Jennie Williams, ‘Developing computational skills for digital collections: a new Programming Historian series’, DCDC22: Discovering Collections Discovering Communities, (11-15 July 2022).
• Matthias Gille Levenson, Sofia Papastamkou & Célian Ringwald, ‘Programming Historian: un lieu de collaborations et d’interactions multiples’, DHNord 2022: Travailler en humanités numériques: collaborations, complémentarités et tensions, Lille, France, (22 June 2022). Link to video.
• Adam Crymble, ‘Local Needs for Global Digital Scholarship’, Quo Vadis, UCL, United Kingdom (9 June 2022).
• Matthias Gille Levenson & Gwenaëlle Patat, ‘Programming Historian en français: Faire communauté pour le partage de ressources éducatives libres sur les méthodes numériques en sciences humaines et sociales francophones’, Colloque Humanistica 2022: Association francophone des humanités numériques, Montreal, Canada (May 2022).
• Eric Brasil, ‘Criação, manutenção e divulgação de projetos de História em meios digitais: git, GitHub e o Programming Historian’ (slides, video), Escola de Cinências Sociais, Fundação Getúlio Vargas/Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil, (20 May 2022).
• Sofia Papastamkou, ‘Penser la pédagogie aux méthodes numériques au prisme de la reproductibilité: le cas du Programming Historian’, Journées annuelles du réseau MATE-SHS: Recherche reproductible: regards croisés en sciences humaines et sociales, Paris, France, (17-18 May 2022).
• Eric Brasil, ‘Hemeroteca digital brasileira e a pesquisa histórica: reflexões sobre teoria e prática’ (slides, video), Laboratório História e Memória da Educação - LAHMED da UFRN, (May 17 2022).
• Adam Crymble, ‘Building Methods with the Global South’ Research Methodology Conference, Coventry, United Kingdom, (20 April 2022).
• Adam Crymble, ‘Trans-Atlantic Digital History and the Spatial Turn of Practice (as viewed from London)’ Institute of Historical Research Digital History Seminar, London, United Kingdom, (29 March 2022).
• Jennifer Isasi, ‘El flujo editorial en Programming Historian en español’ Edición Digital de Textos, Máster Universitario en Humanidades Digitales, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, (2021-2022).
• Antonio Rojas Castro & Jennifer Isasi, ‘Torre de Babel: Humanidades Digitales multilingües’, Association of History Literature Science and Technology (AHLiST), (19 November 2021).
• Sarah Melton, Joana Vieira Paulino, Nabeel Siddiqui & Riva Quiroga, ‘Programming Historian: A Multilingual Open Access Publication’, Open Publishing Fest, (17 November 2021).
• Adam Crymble, ‘Digital Humanities for the Visually Impaired: Programming Historian’s Journey to Accessibility’, UCL, United Kingdom (17 November 2021).
• Jessica Parr and Nabeel Siddiqui, ‘Programming Historian and the Challenges of Globally Distributed Learning’, Sharing Digitally: Seminar on Digital Tools and Infrastructures, Center for Urban History, Lviv, Ukraine, 29 September 2021.
• Nabeel Siddiqui, ‘In the Open: The Programming Historian and the Challenges Globally Distributed Learning’, Seshadripuram Evening Degree College, Bengaluru, India, 29 June 2021.
• Anna-Maria Sichani, ‘Sustaining communities in Digital Humanities: diversity, collaboration, and capacity building in digital scholarship and pedagogy’, DH Benelux, Leiden, 2 June 2021.
• Adam Crymble, ‘Facilitating Making in Digital Humanities’, The Archaeology of Making, University of London, 5 May 2021.
• Daniel Alves, Jennifer Isasi, Sarah Melton, Sofia Papastamkou, Jessica Parr, Riva Quiroga, Nabeel Siddiqui, Brandon Walsh, ‘The Programming Historian: A Global Case Study in Multilingual Open Access and DH Tutelage/Instruction’ (panel), Global Digital Humanities Symposium, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA, 12 April, 2021.
• Jessica Parr, ‘Cambridge Cultural Heritage Data School: Final plenary’, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 30 March 2021.
• Jennifer Isasi & Riva Quiroga, ‘Programming Historian: Un proyecto colaborativo para poner la programación al alcance de los humanistas’, INTELE : INfraestructura de TEcnologías del LEnguaje, Spain, 25 March, 2021.
• Sofia Papastamkou, Jessica Parr & Riva Quiroga, ‘Challenges for Digital Literacy in the Humanities: The Open, Community-Based and Multilinguistic Approach of The Programming Historian’, NewsEye’s International Conference, Europe, 17 March, 2021.
• Riva Quiroga, ‘Multilingual Digital Humanites’, Digital Humanities Long View Seminar, UCLDH, UK & CESTA, USA, 10 March, 2021.
• Brandon Walsh, ‘The Programming Historian and Editorial Process in Digital Publishing’, Modern Languages Association Conference 2021, 7-10 January, 2021.
• Sofia Papastamkou, François Dominic Laramée, Martin Grandjean, ‘Le Programming Historian en français: quelles ressources éducatives libres pour les méthodes numériques ?’, Humanistica 2020 Conference, Bordeaux, France, 12-14 May 2020.
• Sofia Papastamkou, ‘A Beating Heart of Digital History: The Programming Historian’, Teaching Digital History Workshop, Center for Digital History Aarhus, University of Aarhus, Denmark, 23 October 2019.
• Jennifer Isasi, Maria José Afanador y Antonio Rojas Castro, ‘Retos en la producción de tutoriales de HD en contexto hispanohablantes’, Conferencia ACH 2019, The Association for Computers and the Humanities, Pittsburgh, USA, 23-26 July, 2019.
• Antonio Rojas Castro, Sofia Papastamkou, and Anna-Maria Sichani, ‘Three Challenges in Developing Open Multilingual DH Educational Resources The Case of The Programming Historian’, ADHO, Utrecht, Netherlands (8 July 2019).
• Jennifer Isasi, Antonio Rojas & Anna-Maria Sichani, ‘Data science and the language question in digital humanities pedagogy: the example of the Programming Historian’, EADH 2018, National University of Ireland, Galway, 9 December 2018.
• Afanador, Maria José. ‘The Programming Historian en español: estrategias y retos para la construcción de una comunidad global de humanidades digitales.’ Ponencia presentada en la Conferencia de Humanidades Digitales DH2018, Ciudad de México, México, (2018, junio).
• Caleb McDaniel, ‘Open Access, Transparent Peer Review’, Annual Meeting of the Organizations of American Historians, Sacremento, California, (14 April 2018).
• James Baker, ‘The Programming Historian: Open Access, Open Source, Open Project’, Research Hive Seminar on ‘Open publication: exploring alternative models and practices’, University of Sussex (22 March 2018).
• Adam Crymble, ‘White, Male, and North American: Challenges of Diversifying the Programming Historian’, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland (23-24 March 2017).
• Victor Gayol, ‘La investigación del pasado y la historia digital: análisis de datos y cómo aprender (The Programming Historian en español)’, Humanidades Digitales, IV Feria Internacional de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Centro Universitario de Los Lagos - Universidad de Guadalajara, Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco (9 March, 2017).
• Victor Gayol, ‘The Programming Historian: ‘un modelo colaborativo para la investigación y la ensenñanza en ciencias sociales y humanidades digitales’, Mesa de Trabajo sobre Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales, El Colegio De Michoacán, Mexico (21 February 2017).
• Adam Crymble, ‘Bringing Digital Humanities into the University for Free’, University of Cape Town, South Africa (27-28 June 2016).
• Fred Gibbs, ‘The Programming Historian’ (Poster), American Historical Association, New York (January 2015).
• Adam Crymble, ‘The Programming Historian 2’, Digital History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London (13 October 2013).
• Adam Crymble, ‘The Programming Historian 2’, Digital Humanities 2012, Hamburg (July 2012).

Media & Media Contributions

• Brandon Walsh, ‘Lessons from The Programming Historian’, walshbr.com, 17 September 2021, https://walshbr.com/blog/lessons-from-the-programming-historian/.
• Anuka Mohanpuhr, ‘Publishing in the digital humanities remains a space exclusive to non-English speakers, experts say’ The Stanford Daily, 10 March 2021, https://www.stanforddaily.com/2021/03/10/publishing-in-the-digital-humanities-remains-a-space-exclusive-to-non-english-speakers-experts-say/.
• Matthew Lincoln, ‘Multilingual Jekyll: How The Programming Historian Does That’, matthewlincoln.net, 1 March 2020, https://matthewlincoln.net/2020/03/01/multilingual-jekyll.html.
• Martin Dröge, ‘Rezension zu The Programming Historian’, H-Soz-Kult, 31.08.2019, https://www.hsozkult.de/webreview/id/rezwww-184.
• Sue Levine, ‘The Early-Stage Ph.D.’s Guide to Summer’, Inside Higher Education, 10 June 2019, https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2019/06/10/professional-development-and-careers-activities-phd-students-can-pursue-over.
• ‘Championing open access with online digital history journal’, University of Sussex Press Office, 9 October, 2018, https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/people?id=46353/.
• Adam Crymble, ‘A Decade of Programming Historians’, Network in Canadian History & Environment, 23 March, 2018, http://niche-canada.org/2018/03/23/a-decade-of-programming-historians/.
• Fred Gibbs, “Sustainable Publishing: Reflections of a Former Programming Historian Editor”, FredGibbs.net, 2017, http://fredgibbs.net/posts/reflections-former-PH-editor.
• Anaclet Pons, “The Programming Historian en español”, Clionauta: Blog de historia, June 14, 2017, http://clionauta.hypotheses.org/16979.
• Seth Denbo, “Historian, Program! Self-Help for Digital Neophytes,” Perspectives on History: The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association, May 2017, https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/may-2017/historian-program-self-help-digital-neophytes.
• Víctor Gayol, ‘The Programming Historian en español’, Blog de Humanidades Digitales, March 17, 2017, http://humanidadesdigitales.net/blog/2017/03/17/the-programming-historian-en-espanol/.

Projects Using the Programming Historian

• Eva Pfanzelter, “Syllabus: Introduction to Digital Practice in the Historical Sciences”, History Curriculum, University of Innsbruck, Austria, NewsEye H2020 Project (2021).
• Kelly Fitzpatrick, “Caselaw Access Project”, Harvard Law School (2019).
• Paul Spence, Renata Brandao, “Digital Modern Languages Writing Sprint”, Language Acts and Worldmaking (2019).
• James Baker, Caitlin Moore, Ernesto Priego, Raquel Alegre, Jez Cope, Ludi Price, Owen Stephens, Daniel van Strien, Greg Wilson, ‘Library Carpentry: software skills training for library professionals’, Liber Quarterly: The Journal of the Association of European Research Libraries, 26(3) (2016).