People:

Project Director:

Amy Earhart, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Earhart works with digital humanities and 19th-century American literature and culture. Her work has appeared in various venues including DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly, The Oxford Handbook to Transcendentalism, Documentary Editing, Prof Hacker (The Chronicle of Higher Education) and Reinventing the Peabody Sisters (Iowa UP). She has co-edited a collection of essays titled The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age with Andrew Jewell, forthcoming from the University of Michigan. She is currently at work on a monograph titled “Traces of the Old, Uses of the New: The Emergence of the Digital Humanities.” In addition, she is developing the 19th-Century Concord Digital Archive in partnership with the Concord Free Public Library.

Partner Institution:

The William Munroe Special Collections, The Concord Free Public Library, Concord, Massachusetts

The William Munroe Special Collections of the CFPL is the primary archive of Concord history, life, landscape, literature and people from 1635-present, and as such is a major repository and interpretive agency.

Library Partner:

Katherine H. Weimer, Associate Professor, Map and GIS Collections and Services, Texas A&M University Libraries

Weimer has created digital map collections, map based search interfaces, and is curator of the digital version of the Geologic Atlas of the United States. She has written and presented on the topics of map and GIS librarianship and is immediate past Chair of the American Library Association’s Map and Geography Round Table. She serves as co-editor of the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries and holds a fellowship from AMIGOS to create a map interface to born-digital theses and dissertations.

Technology Staff:

Graduate Students:

  • Joori Lee (2008)
  • Sun Joo Lee (2007)
  • Sichun Song (2007)
  • Bridgit McCafferty (2007-2008)
  • Robert Wyckoff (2006-Present)

The 19th-Century Digital Concord Advisory Board includes:

  • Ronald Bosco, University at Albany, the State University of Albany
  • Joel Myerson, the University of South Carolina
  • Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, Penn State Altoona
  • Larry Reynolds, Texas A&M University
  • Anita Tekle, Town Clerk, Concord Massachusetts
  • Leslie Wilson, Curator of the Concord Free Public Library