Doing DH and stuff in Mexico City
Last week I flew to amazing Mexico City to speak about digital archiving and economic history at the Colegio de México. It is always great…
Immigration and the American dream – a class assignment using the short film “Ellis”
Last week I screened the film Ellis in my class. The film was also screened in the Rivera and Orbach libraries on campus for 2 hours –…
Teaching online with Jorge Luis Borges
This week, students in my online class learnt about the fallibility of maps and cartographers, who as one astute student said, contributed to the “zombiefication of history”.…
Zombie survival training at REI
If I didn’t already have a fully booked Oct 29th, you know where I would be that day.
When history and data visualization meet: one aspect of digital humanities you won’t want to miss
Yesterday I got a personal tour (led by the magnificent Catherine Allgor) of an exhibit that will be at the Huntington on “Junípero Serra and the…
Prof Juliette on ESPN media zone!
At 1 minute and 7 seconds – and for the next 8 seconds – that’s yours truly commenting on the historical reasons for the US-Mexico soccer…
Prof Juliette is going full virtual
I have been teaching in what is now referred to as a ‘hybrid’ environment for a few years, and I am going fully online this summer.…
Multi-tasking can kill. And it will definitely lower your grade.
We all do it. We are all constantly doing more than one thing at a time. And we are all arrogant enough to think that multi-tasking…
Don’t cry for me, Venezuela
Well – the results are in, and it looks like the Bolivarian revolution is losing steam. It also looks like Nicolas Maduro is certifiably insane. If…
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