About

This website served as a space for reflection from the graduate students in the Digital History Fellowship. Each group of students contributed their stories and experiences, and provided a fresh look at digital history in graduate programs. The program ceased to use this website in 2018 and the last cohort of students was accepted in 2020. The program has since been discontinued but this webpage is being left up in flattened form for historical purposes.

First awarded in 2012, the Digital History Fellowship was funded by the Provost’s PhD Program Awards, and provided graduate students with stipends and an opportunity to undertake practicum courses in the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Students discussed previous projects completed by the Center to better understand how digital history has developed since 1994, while simultaneously offering new perspectives on present and future projects. They also worked within the Education, Public Projects, and Research divisions to learn new skills and contributed to current projects.

Cohorts

2017-2018

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LaQuanda Walters Cooper [Mentor: Jessica Dauterive]

Came to GMU from: University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Research Interests: U.S. History, African American Public History, Digital History

 

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Greta Swain [Mentor: Laura Crossley]

Came to GMU from: Taylor University

Research Interests: Early American Social History, Digital History, Public History

 

2016-2017

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Jessica Dauterive [Mentor: Andrea Odiorne]

Came to GMU from: University of New Orleans

Research Interests: 20th Century US History, Music History, Digital History, Public History

 

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Laura Crossley [Mentor: Lacey Wilson]

Came to GMU from: Knox College

Research Interests: Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Native American History, Digital History

 

2015–2016

IMG_5842Andrea Odiorne

Came to GMU from: Virginia Commonwealth University

Research Interests: 20th Century U.S. History, Educational Film, Gender and Sexuality

 

IMG_5842Lacey Wilson

Came to GMU from: Illinois College

Research Interests: Native American history and public history

 

2014–2015

IMG_3437colorJordan Bratt [Mentor: Jannelle Legg]

Came to GMU from: Brigham Young University

Research Interests: Digital History, US Religious History, Mormon History

 

IMG_3439colorStephanie Anne Seal [Mentor: Amanda Regan]

Came to GMU from: The University of Southern Mississippi

Research Interests: Loyalism in Virginia during the American Revolution, War & Society, Digital History, US History

 

IMG_3441colorAlyssa Toby Fahringer [Mentor: Anne McDivitt]

Came to GMU from: Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Pittsburgh

Research Interests: 19th century South, women and gender, digital history, public history

 

2013–2014

IMG_8008_1Jannelle Legg [Mentor: Ben Hurwitz]
[See posts]

Came to GMU from: Gallaudet University

Research Interests: Deaf History, Disability History and Church History.

 

IMG_8010_1Anne McDivitt [Mentor: Spencer Roberts]
[See posts]

Came to GMU from: University of Central Florida

Research Interests: Video Game History and Masculinity, Digital History, and Public History

 

 IMG_8007Amanda Regan [Mentor: Amanda Morton]
[See posts]

Came to GMU from: California State University, San Marcos

Research Interests: Women’s physical culture 1880-1940

 

2012–2013

IMG_8012_1Ben Hurwitz
[See posts]

Came to GMU from: College of William and Mary

Research Interests: 19th century history of South Africa

 

 

IMG_8017_1Amanda Morton
[See posts]

Came to GMU from: Ohio State University

Research Interests: diseases and warfare, medieval history

 

Spencer-Roberts

Spencer Roberts
[See posts]

Came to GMU from: Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario

Research Interests: digital history and methodology, gendered histories, and digital humanities pedagogy

 

 

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  1. HI Amanda – really enjoyed the blog post and wanted to re-iterate your final comments about “Good history teaching is first and foremost based on good historical thinking skills. Digital tools and technology help to guide, challenge, and engage students but they don’t do that on their own. The technology must be paired with teaching skills to critically engage history.”
    This is exactly our view at the UK National Archives. We use lots of technology for delivering teaching and online resources to students using our collection but never forget that developing historical understanding is the key outcome of our work. The technology can really help focus students thinking on particular tasks e.g. close analysis of documents; thinking about how selection of sources affects interpretation; and substantiating judgements based on evidence from sources.
    We are hoping to carry out more systematic research into the impact of using techonology with archival material on student learning and the development of historical understanding. Maybe we can share our findings at somepoint in the future.
    Keep up the good work!

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