A Call to Redefine Historical Scholarship in the Digital Turn

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000

_This is a collaboratively-written call for the American Historical Association to appoint a task force to survey the profession as to the place of digital historical scholarship in promotion and tenure and graduate student training and to recommend standards and guidelines for the profession to follow.__This document is a product of many of the exciting changes discussed below. It began at a session at THATCamp AHA 2012 that included graduate students, tenured and non-tenured faculty, and librarians. These participants and others continued their conversations at the physical conference and afterwards on the web. Additional signatures and edits in the _Google Doc were solicited via Twitter, and through posts on Jason’s blog and by Alex on GradHacker.__The letter was then submitted to the American Historical Association’s Research Division on January 26, 2012. On June 2, 2012 the AHA announced the establishment of a Task Force on Digital Scholarship.

Wdseefeldt on Journal of Digital Humanities

A Call to Redefine Historical Scholarship in the Digital Turn