Rebecca Parker
CTSDH Graduate Fellow; Master’s Student, Digital Humanities
Fields:
Textual Studies – Paleography, Text Analysis, Text Encoding, Textual Scholarship, Digital Editions;
Digital Humanities – Computational Analytics, Critical Curation, Data Visualization, Digital Ethics, Digital Tools, e-Publishing, Macroanalysis, Mapping/GIS, Markup and Programming Languages, Natural Language Processing, Network Analysis, Project Management, Social Research, Social Web, Web Archives;
Public History - Digital Archives, Digital Libraries, Digitization
Research Interests: Digital Curation, Gender Studies, Industrialization, Marginalized Populations, Progressive Era, Urbanization, Collaborative Digital Pedagogy, Yellow Journalism, 19th-20th Century American History
CTSDH Involvement: Graduate Fellow, Center Communications Assistant, On-Site Technical Support for Man Into Woman Project, Media & Communication Organizer for Loyola's Chapter of Girls Who Code
Professional Activity: CTSDH Fellow (2017- ), Cudahy Library Graduate Reference Assistant (2017- ), Web Content Manager and Metadata Consultant for West Overton Village and Museums of Scottsdale, Pennsylvania (2017- ), Web Content Manager and Text Encoding Consultant for Black Rock History Project of Fairfield, Connecticut (2016- ), Post-baccalaureate Technical Assistant of the Center for the Digital Text at the University of Pittsburg at Greensburg (2016-2017), Digital Humanities Teaching and Research Assistant at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg (2014-2016), Editor of the Digital Mitford Project (2014- ), Project Manager and Senior Editor of the Restoration of Nell Nelson Project (2014- ).
Relevant Publications: "A GitHub 'Garage' for a Digital Humanities Course" with Dr. Elisa Beshero-Bondar, in New Directions for Computing Education: Embedding Computing Across Disciplines, (Springer International Publishing, 2017).