curriculum_vitae.yaml

---
name: Benjamin MacDonald Schmidt
title: ""
address:
    - 20 Cooper Square, Room 538
    - New York University
    - New York, NY 10003
email: bs145@nyu.edu
twitter: benmschmidt
www: benschmidt.org
tel: 609.619.0629
bibliography: tmp.bib

appointment:
  -
    place: New York University
    items:
      -
        item: Clinical Associate Professor of History
        date: September 2019-Present
        description: |
           Teach and research at intersection of history and data science. Published articles in
           *Journal of Information Science and Technology*, *Proceedings of the National 
           Academy of Sciences*.
           Co-directed Humanities Lab group detailing issues around data collection and migrant records.
      -
        item: Director of Digital Humanities
        date: September 2019-Present
        description: |
          Launched and oversaw first three years of 10-year, $1,000,000 seed grant program.
          Launched and secured funding for new summer graduate fellowship.
          Direct Graduate Certificate program in Digital Humanities inside 
          Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
          Serve on research computing faculty advisory board setting university-wide technology policy.
  -
    place: Northeastern University
    items:
      -
        item: Assistant Professor of History
        date: August 2013–June 2019
        description: |
          Taught and supervised staff in large lecture classes and graduate students. Constructed 
          data visualizations and research under grants and fellowships.
      -
        item: Core Faculty, NuLab for Texts, Maps, and Networks
        date: August 2013–June 2019
        description: Developed graduate curriculum in digital humanities.
      -
        item: Affiliate Faculty, Program in Information Design and Visualization
        date: November 2014–June 2019
  -
    place: Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
    items:
      -
        item: Graduate Fellow, Cultural Observatory @ Harvard
        date: 2011–2013
        description: Led group building data visualization and analysis software *Bookworm* and conducted
           independent research in digital humanities.
  - place: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    items: 
    -
      item: Program Assistant/Program Associate
      date: November 2003-August 2005
      description: |
         Researched, performed data analysis, and wrote descriptions
         of quantitative data for prototype edition of the Academy's now-
         successful *Humanities Indicators*.  
       
education:
  -
    place: Princeton University
    item: Ph.D. in History
    date: November 2013
    info:
      -
        text: 'Dissertation: "Paying Attention: The psychological subject in advertising, education, and culture, 1890–1960."'
        twopage: true
      - 'Committee: Daniel Rodgers (advisor), Emily Thompson (first reader), Anthony Grafton (second reader), Daniel Cohen (outside reader).'
  -
    place: Princeton University
    item: M.A. in History
    date: June 2007
    info:
      - Major field in U.S. History 1865–2000.
      - Minor fields in European intellectual history 1870–2000 and American intellectual and cultural history.
  -
    place: Harvard University
    item: A.B. in Social Studies, magna cum laude
    date: June 2003
    info:
      - 'Honors thesis: "Adorno on the Air: Theodor Adorno and the Princeton Radio Research Project." Advisor: Peter Eli Gordon.'

publication:
  -
    title: "Uncontrolled corpus composition drives an apparent surge in cognitive distortions. Benjamin Schmidt, Steven T. Piantadosi, Kyle Mahowald. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nov 2021, 118 (45) e2115010118; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2115010118."
    journal: "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences"
    date: 2021-11
    twopage: true
    academic: true
    resume: true
  - 
    author: "Organisciak, P., Schmidt, B. M., & Downie, J. S."
    title: "Giving shape to large digital libraries through exploratory data analysis."
    journal: "Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 73( 2), 317– 332."
    doi: "https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24547"
    date: 2021-09
    academic: true
    resume: true
  -
    title: "Creating Data: The Origins of Digitization in the American State, 1840-1940"
    date: "Digital Monograph, in progress"
    twopage: true
    academic: true
  -
    author: "Peter Organisciak, Grace Therrell, Maggie Ryan, Benjamin MacDonald Schmidt"
    title: Examining patterns of text reuse in digitized text collections
    date: 2019-06-02
    journal: 2019 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)
    academic: true
    twopage: true
  -
    title: "Are College Students Killing Townies?"
    author: "Benjamin Schmidt"
    journal: "The Chronicle of Higher Education"
    date: 2020-12-17
    twopage: false
    academic: false
    public: true
  -
    fcitekey: schmidt\_history\_2018
    title: "The History Major since the Great Recession"
    author: "Benjamin Schmidt"
    journal: "Perspectives"
    date: 2018 December
    twopage: false
    academic: false
    public: true
    resume: true
  -
    fcitekey: schmidt\_stable\_2018
    title: "Stable Random Projection: Lightweight, General-Purpose Dimensionality Reduction for Digitized Libraries"
    date: 2018-09-30
    journal: "Journal of Cultural Analytics"
    doi: 10.22148/16.025
    academic: true
    twopage: true
  -
    fcitekey: schmidt\_modeling\_2018
    title: "Modeling Time,"
    journal: "in 'The Shape of Data in Digital Humanities,' ed. Julia Flanders and Fotis Jannidis"
    date: (Routledge, 2018)
    academic: true
    twopage: false
  -
    fcitekey: schmidt\_digital\_2016
    title: "Do Digital Humanists Need to Understand Algorithms?"
    journal: Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016
    journal_info: ed. Matthew Gold and Lauren Klein
    type: chapter
    date: 2016
    place: University of Minnesota Press
    academic: true
    twopage: true
  -
    fcitekey: schmidt\_plot\_2015
    date: 2015
    title: "Plot Arceology: A Vector Space Model of Plot"
    journal: "Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data"
    academic: true
    peer_reviewed: true
    twopage: true
    resume: true
  -
    fcitekey: schmidt\_words\_2013
    date: April 2013
    title: "Words Alone: Dismantling Topic Models in the Humanities"
    journal: Journal of Digital Humanities
    journal_info: Vol. 2 No. 1
    url: http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/2-1/words-alone-by-benjamin-m-schmidt/
    twopage: true
    academic: true
  -
    fcitekey: schmidt\_theory\_2012
    date: April 2012
    title: "Theory First"
    journal: Journal of Digital Humanities
    journal_info: Vol. 1 No. 1
    twopage: false
    academic: true
  -
    date: November 2010-Present
    url: sappingattention.blogspot.com
    title: Sapping Attention
    description: Blog publishing original research and discussion in digital humanities, data visualization, and text mining
    academic: true
    blog: true
  -
    date: 2011-Present
    title: Bookworm
    url: https://github.com/Bookworm-project
    description: Interactive website, database, and API
    twopage: false
    academic: true
    software: true
  -
    fcitekey: schmidt\_ranking\_2007
    date: July 2007
    author: "Benjamin MacDonald Schmidt and Matthew Chingos"
    title: "Ranking Doctoral Programs by Placement: A New Method"
    journal: "PS: Political Science & Politics"
    journal_info: Vol 40, pages 523-529
    twopage: true
    academic: true
    peer_reviewed: true
    resume: true
  -
    fcitekey: schmidt\_is\_2015
    title: "Is It Fair to Rate Professors Online?, The New York Times (Room for debate)"
    date: December 16, 2015
    public: true
    twopage: false
  -
    author: "Ben Schmidt"
    title: "The Humanities are in Crisis"
    journal: "The Atlantic"
    date: "August 23, 2018"
    url: "https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/08/the-humanities-face-a-crisisof-confidence/567565/"
    public: true
    twopage: true
    resume: true
  -
    author: "Ben Schmidt and Mitch Fraas"
    title: "The Language of the State of the Union"
    journal: "The Atlantic"
    date: "January 18, 2015"
    url: "http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/01/the-language-of-the-state-of-the-union/384575/"
    twopage: true
    public: true
  -
    author: "Mitch Fraas and Ben Schmidt"
    title: "Mapping the State of the Union"
    journal: "The Atlantic"
    date: "January 18, 2015"
    url: "http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/01/the-language-of-the-state-of-the-union/384575/"
    public: true
    twopage: false
  -
    fcitekey: schmidt\_data\_2013
    title: "The data shows there's no real crisis"
    journal: "The New York Times"
    journal_info: "Room for Debate"
    date: "November 4, 2013"
    url: "http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/01/the-language-of-the-state-of-the-union/384575/"
    public: true
  -
    title: The Language of Lincoln
    journal: The Atlantic
    date: January 10, 2013
    url: "http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/01/nobody-said-racial-equality-in-1865-the-anachronistic-english-of-lincoln/266990/"
    public: true
  -
    title: The Foreign Language of Mad Men
    journal: The Atlantic
    date: March 22, 2012
    url: "http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/01/nobody-said-racial-equality-in-1865-the-anachronistic-english-of-lincoln/266990/"
    public: true
  -
    title: Prochronisms
    url: prochronism.com
    description: "Blog discussing changes in historical language through the lens of anachronisms in popular culture"
    date: 2012-2015
    public: true


grants:
- 
  resume: false
  description: "Asylum Lab, NYU Center for the Humanities"
- 
  description: "Similarity and Duplication in Digital Libraries. IMLS grant. Co-PI; Peter Organisciak, University of Denver."
  resume: true
- 
  description: "NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication for *Creating Data*, Calendar Year 2018. $50,400."
  resume: false
- 
  description: "Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs: Visiting Fellow, Spring 2017"
  resume: false
- 
  description: Proteus Project, development grant from Mellon Foundation. Join with University of Massachusetts. Northeastern co-director (with David Smith, Ryan Cordell, and Elizabeth Dillon). 2015-2016.
  resume: false
- 
  description: Bookworm Project, $350,000 implementation grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2014-2016). Joint with University of Illinois and Rice University; Northeastern University project lead.
  resume: true
- 
  description: Bookworm Project, $50,000 continuation grant from the Digital Public Library of America (2013). Project developer and grant-writer. 2013.
  resume: false

invited_talk:
  - 
    date: March 13, 2020 (Cancelled due to COVID-19)
    title: "The Humanities in the Age of STEM"
    host: American Council of Learned Societies
    twopage: false
  -
    date: January 14, 2020
    title: "Data in search of an argument"
    host: "History as a Data Science Workshop (guest)"
    place: "Columbia University, New York"
    twopage: false
  -
    date: January 28, 2018
    title: "Reordering the digital library: what do 21st century algorithms make out of 19th century collections"
    host: "University of North Carolina"
    place: "Chapel Hill"
    twopage: true
  -
    date: July 29, 2016
    title: "Visualizing and classifying large digital libraries"
    host: New York Public Library
    place: New York City
    twopage: false
  -
    date: June 7, 2016
    title: "Data Visualization for the Humanities"
    host: Digital Futures Initiative
    place: Grinnell College
    twopage: false
  -
    date: November 12, 2015
    title: "Historical Data Visualization"
    host: Institute for Quantitative Theory and Methods Data Visualization speaker series
    place: Emory University
    twopage: false
  -
    date: May 11, 2015
    title: "Plot Arceology"
    host: Literary Lab
    place: Stanford University
  -
    date: May 10, 2015
    title: "Reconstructing the Map"
    host: Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis
    place: Stanford University
    twopage: true
  -
    title: "Aggregate Americans: The US Census Bureau, data visualization, 1880-1940"
    place: Washington University in St Louis
    date: February 26, 2015
    twopage: false
  -
    date: November 12, 2014
    title: "Applying a grammar of visualization to millions of texts: the Bookworm project"
    host: College of Art, Media, and Design
    place: Northeastern University
  -
    title: "Bookworm: Exploring Massive Textual Collections through Metadata"
    host: Yale University Library
    place: Yale University
    date: May 12, 2014
    twopage: true
  -
    title: "Data-Driven Histories: Reinterpreting Nineteenth-Century Data"
    host: Department of History
    place: University of Georgia
    date: April 22, 2014
    twopage: true
  -
    title: "Data narratives and group dynamics in digital history: a case study in ships' logs"
    host: Digital History symposium and roundtable
    place: University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    date: April 11, 2014
    twopage: false
  -
    title: "History for the Digital Future: Digital Forms of Historical Scholarship"
    host: Friday Workshop Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies
    place: University of Michigan
    date: January 31, 2014
    twopage: true
  -
    title: "'Big Data' across Disciplines, from Cultural Studies to Culturomics"
    host: Workshop in History, Culture and Society
    place: Sociology Department, Harvard University
    date: March 27, 2013
  -
    title: "Unintended Consequences: Digital Reading and the Loci of Cultural Change"
    host: Institute for Historical Research
    place: London, UK
    date: March 12, 2013
  -
    title: "Digital Reading"
    host: Digital Humanities and the Americanist Seminar, Center for Cultural Analysis
    place: Rutgers University
    date: January 31, 2013
  -
    title: "Humanities Research with Digital Libraries"
    host: ITHAKA S+R and Jstor teams, ITHAKA building
    place: New York City
    date: April 16, 2012
  -
    title: "A History of Attention"
    host: Emily Harvey Foundation
    place: New York City
    date: March 17, 2012
  -
    title: "Bookworm"
    host: Beta Sprint Competition Selection, Digital Public Library of America Plenary Meeting
    place: Washington, DC
    date: October 21, 2011

home_institution:
-
  title: "The DH/CSS job market. Panelist."
  date: October 13, 2016
-
  title: "What gender's got to do with teaching evaluations."
  place: "Conflict. Civility. Respect. Peace. Northeastern Reflects series on civic sustainability."
  date: November 4, 2015
-
  title: "Open Access in the Digital Humanities"
  host: Open Access Week event, Northeastern University
  date: October 22, 2013

conference:
-
  title: "Two Volumes: the Lessons of Time on the Cross"
  host: American Historical Association
  place: Chicago
  date: January 2019
-
  title: "What will the liberal arts look like in 10 years?"
  host: ITHAKA Next Wave Conference 2018
  place: New York City
  date: November 29, 2018
-
  title: "Stable Random Projection: Universal, Minimal Dimensionality Reduction for Books"
  host: Digital Humanities 2017
  place: Montreal
  date: August 2017

-
  title: "Drawing the frontier line at the US Census, 1870-1920"
  host: Columbia University
  place: New York
  date: April 8, 2017

-
  title: A public exploratory data analysis of gender bias in teaching evaluations
  host: IEEEViz Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities
  place: Baltimore
  date: October 24, 2016
-
  title: "Invited presentation"
  host: Integration of education in the sciences, engineering, and medicine with the arts and humanities at the undergraduate and
        graduate levels
  place: National Academy of Sciences, Cambridge MA
  date: October 14, 2016
-
  title: "Exploratory Narratives"
  host: Digital Humanities + Data Journalism conference
  place: University of Miami
  date: October 1, 2016
-
  title: "Data Revisualization as Critical Humanities Practice: Reinterpreting 19th Century Data with Modern Tools"
  host: Digital Humanities 2015 Conference
  place: Sydney, Australia
  date: July 1, 2015
  twopage: true
-
  title: "Historical data revisualization: Turner, Walker, and envisioning the frontier"
  host: Roundtable on data visualization and historical practice
  place: Annual Meeting of the American History Association
  date: January 3, 2015
  twopage: true
-
  title: "Bookworm: Building an expressive grammar of humanities text analysis"
  host: The Digital Crucible
  place: Dartmouth College
  date: October 7, 2014
-
  title: "Why we worry about humanities enrollments"
  host: Panel on responses to the American Academy Report on the Humanities
  place: National Conference on Public History; Monterey, California
  date: March 2014
-
  title: "Transforming Texts into Cartesian Spaces"
  host: New Media in American Literary History symposium
  place: Northeastern University
  date: December 2013
-
  title: "Reading texts with Big Metadata: the Bookworm platform for digital books, newspapers, and other libraries"
  host: Featured Talk, Boston Area Days of DH
  place: Northeastern University
  date: March 19, 2013
-
  title: "Reading Genres: Exploring Massive Digital Collections From the Top Down"
  host: Big Data and Uncertainty in the Humanities
  place: University of Kansas
  date: September 22, 2012
-
  title: "Paying Attention: A Case Study in Conceptual History with Millions of Texts"
  host: Panel on Digital Approaches to Conceptual History, 15th International Conference on the History of Concepts
  place: Helsinki, Finland
  date: August 24, 2012
-
  title: "Drifting Metaphors: Using Digital Libraries to Describe Discursive Change"
  host: "Panel on Computational Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Literary History, Conference of the American Literature Association"
  place: San Francisco
  date: May 24, 2012
-
  title: "Digital Collections and Research Libraries"
  host: "Research Libraries in the Digital Age: Needs and Opportunities Conference (invited presentation), American Antiquarian Society"
  place: Worcester, Massachusetts
  date: March 30, 2012
-
  title: "A Conversation about Text Mining as a Research Method"
  host: Roundtable participant, Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
  place: Chicago
  date: January 8, 2012
-
  title: "Practicing Intellectual History on the Digital Archive"
  host: Paper, Modern America Workshop
  place: Princeton University
  date: March 2011
-
  title: "The Rise of the American Attention Span, 1890-1935"
  host: Paper, Modern America Workshop
  place: Princeton University
  date: March 2010

workshop:

-
  title: Text Mining the Digital Library with Hathi Trust Extended Features
  place: NYC Week of DH
  date: January, 2020
-
  title: Thinking Through Word Embeddings for the Humanities
  place: Carnegie Mellon University
  date: June, 2018
-
  title: Thinking Through Word Embeddings for the Humanities
  place: NYC Week of DH
  date: January, 2018
-
  title: Classification and the Library
  host: History Lab group
  place: Columbia University
  date: April 19, 2016
-
  title: Text Analytics for Medical History (Instructor, NEH/NIH workshop)
  host: National Institutes of Health
  place: Bethesda, MD
  date: April 11, 2016
-
  title: An Introduction to Text Analysis for Historians
  host: Digital History Workshop Sessions, Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
  place: New York
  date: January 2, 2015
-
  title: Global Literary Networks Work Retreat
  host: Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
  place: University of Chicago
  date: December 4-5, 2014
-
  title: 'Doing Digital History: A Graduate Student Workshop'
  place: University of Georgia
  date: April 21, 2014
-
  title: "Digital Methods for conceptual history"
  host: International Research School in Conceptual History and Political Thought; two-day guest instructor
  place: Helsinki University
  date: August 2012


teaching:
-
  title: "Introduction to Programming"
  date: Fall 2020
  type: Graduate
- 
  title: "The History of Big Data"
  date: Spring 2020
  type: Undergraduate
-
  title: "Working with Data"
  date: Spring 2020, Spring 2021
  type: Graduate
- 
  title: "Asylum in Crisis. Co-taught with Sibylle Fischer and Ellen Noonan"
  date: Spring 2021
  type: Undergraduate
-
  title: "Bostonography: Exploring the city through texts, maps, and networks. Co-taught with Ryan Cordell"
  date: Fall 2016
  type: Undergraduate
-
  title: "United States History from 1607 to the present"
  date: Spring 2019; Fall 2017
  type: Undergraduate
-
  title: "Texts, Maps, and Networks: Readings and Methods for Digital History"
  date: Fall 2015; Fall 2016; Fall 2017
  type: Graduate
-
  title: "Humanities Data Analysis"
  date: Spring 2019; Spring 2015
  type: Graduate
-
  title: "The Making of Modern America: The United States, 1877-1945"
  date: Fall 2014
  type: Undergraduate
-
  title: "The History of Big Data"
  type: First Year Honors Seminar
  date: Fall 2013, Fall 2014
-
  title: "History in the Digital Age"
  date: Spring 2014
  type: Undergraduate
-
  title: "Introduction to Digital History"
  date: Fall 2013
  type: Graduate

public_history:
-
  role: Museum
  gigs:
  -
    item: American Whaling exhibits at the New Bedford Whaling Museum
    date: 2014-2015
  -
    item: Mapping the Frontier, Boston Public Library
    date: 2019
-
  role: Language Consulting
  gigs:

  -
    item: "Historical Language Consultant, \"Masters of Sex,\" Season 2. Showtime Television."
    date: 2014
  -
    item: "Historical Language Consultant, \"Vegas,\" Season 1. Eye Productions/CBS television."
    date: 2012-2013
-
  role: TV and Radio Appearances
  gigs:
  - 
    item: Central Standard, KCUR Kansas City, "Is History Dying?"
    url: https://www.kcur.org/show/central-standard/2019-01-30/seg-1-is-history-dying-seg-2-the-marie-kondo-craze
    date: January 30, 2019
  -
    item: "\"Think\" with Krys Boyd, KERA Dallas. \"Go ahead, Major in Philosophy.\""
    url: "http://think.kera.org/2018/09/10/go-ahead-major-in-philosophy/"
    date: September 10, 2018
  -
    item: Morning Edition, National Public Radio. Discussing gendered language and teaching evaluations.
    url: "http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2015/02/23/386001328/how-we-talk-about-our-teachers"
    date: February 23, 2015
  -
    item: WBAL, Baltimore. Discussing the State of the Union Address.
    date: January 20, 2015
  -
    item: "New England Cable News. Discussing \"The Simpsons.\""
    date: September 2014
  -
    item: The Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU Washington DC. Hourlong guest discussing Digital Humanities.
    url: "http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2013-02-19/digital-humanities"
    date: February 19, 2013
  -
    item: On the Media, National Public Radio. Discussing historical fiction and computational changes in language. (Version of Lexicon Valley interview, below).
    url: "http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/jun/15/lexicon-valley-takes-mad-men/"
    date: June 15, 2012
  -
    item: Lexicon Valley podcast, Slate.com.
    url: "http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2012/06/lexicon_valley_anachronisms_in_mad_men_downton_abbey_and_edith_wharton_.html"
    date: June 11, 2012
  -
    item: Weekends with Alex Witt, MSNBC. Discussing Mad Men.
    date: March 24, 2012

media_coverage:
-
  fcitekey: miller\_is\_2015
  author: Miller, Clare Cain
  title: "Is the Professor Bossy or Brilliant? Much Depends on Gender"
  url: "http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/07/upshot/is-the-professor-bossy-or-brilliant-much-depends-on-gender.html?abt=0002&abg=1"
  journal: "*The New York Times*"
  date: February 6, 2015
-
  fcitekey: dewey\_when\_2014
  author: "*Dewey, Caitlin*"
  title: "When F-Bombs Went Mainstream, Who Talks about Terrorism, and Other Surprising Cultural Insights from Big Data"
  url: "http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/09/18/when-f-bombs-went-mainstream-who-talks-about-terrorism-and-other-surprising-cultural-insights-from-big-data/"
  journal: "*The Washington Post*"
  date: September 18, 2014
-
  fcitekey: hertzberg\_nobody\_2014
  author: Hertzberg, Hendrik
  title: "Nobody Said That Then!"
  url: "http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/hendrikhertzberg/2014/02/nobody-said-that-then-continued.html?intcid=obnetwork"
  journal: The New Yorker Blogs
  date: February 25, 2014
-
  fcitekeyl: schuessler\_quants\_2013
  author: Schuessler, Jennifer
  title: "Quants Ask: What Crisis in the Humanities?"
  url: "http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/27/quants-ask-what-crisis-in-the-humanities/"
  journal: The New York Times
  date: June 27, 2013
  resume: true

service:
-
  type: "Service to the Profession"
  gigs:
    -
      item: Advisory board, "What Every1Says." Mellon Foundation-funded project on public discourse around the humanities.
      date: 2017-2019
      twopage: true
    -
      item:  Working Group on Big Data and History, Social Science Resource Council
      date: 2015-2018
      twopage: false
    -
      item: Advisory Board, Culture Analytics
      date: 2015-Present
      twopage: true
    -
      item:  Grant reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities
      date: 2014, 2019
    -
      item:  Digital Content Advisor, The American Yawp, Online History Textbook
      date: 2014-Present
    -
      item:  Participant, Hathi Trust Research Center Un-Camp
      date: September 10-11, 2012
    -
      item:  Invited Participant, Digital Public Library of America Technical Development Meeting
      date: December 2011
-
  type: "Service to the Department and University"
  gigs:
    - 
      item: DH Steering Committee
      date: 2019-present
    -
      item: Faculty Advisory Board, Research technology
      date: 2019-present
    - 
      item: University committee on course evaluations
      date: 2020
    -
      item: Polonsky Fellowship Selection Committee
      date: 2020
    - 
      item: Digital Humanities Seed Grant Committee, co-chair
      date: 2019-present
    -
      item: Committee on undergraduate research, College of Social Sciences and Humanities.
      date: 2016
    -
      item: Committee on experiential liberal arts, CSSH
      date: 2015
    -
      item: Graduate Committee, Northeastern University History Department
      date: 2014-16
    -
      item:  Faculty Search Committee, Northeastern University
      date: 2015-16
    -
      item:  Undergraduate Research Committee, Northeastern University College of Social Sciences and Humanities
      date: 2014
    -
      item:  Committee on Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate
      date: 2015
    -
      item:  Working Group on Evaluation of Digital Scholarship, Northeastern University
      date: 2015
    -
      item:  Faculty Search Committee, Northeastern University
      date: 2014-15
    -
      item:  Participant, Digital Working Group, Harvard History Department
      date: 2013
    -
      item:  Departmental Representative, Princeton Graduate Student Government
      date: 2010–2011
    -
      item:  Treasurer, Princeton Graduate History Association
      date: 2008-2010
    -
      item:  Secretary, Princeton Graduate History Association
      date: 2006-2008
    -
      item:  Director, Modern America Workshop, Princeton University
      date: 2007-2008
software:
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  program: Bookworm
  language: Python
  url: github.com/Bookworm-project/BookwormDB
  description: Visualization and statistical analysis API for nonconsumptive analysis of massive textual 
     corpora. Used by Hathi Trust Research Center, Yale University Digital Scholarship, Columbia History Lab, etc.
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  program: WordVectors
  language: R
  url: github.com/bmschmidt/wordVectors
  description: Widely used R package for creation and analysis of word2vec and other word embedding models.
- 
  program: Deepscatter
  language: Javascript/WebGL
  url: github.com/CreatingData/deepscatter
  description: Data tiling to display zoomable D3 scatterplots with tens of millions of items in browser.
    Used for work at Library of Congress, University of Tuebingen, Nomic Software.


competencies:
-
  type: Computing Platforms
  items:
    - "Substantial experience (could lead workshops): R, Python, Javascript, MySQL, D3."
    - "Research/collaborative use: HTML5/CSS, Unix administration, Haskell, ArcGIS/QGIS, perl, LaTex, JQuery."
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  type: Languages
  items: German (intermediate), Spanish (reading), French (reading).

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