Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

(Streets of Los Angeles Archive. The Getty Research Institute 2012.M.2 © Ed Ruscha)

Digital technologies open up exciting opportunities for new modes of teaching and research in the humanities and humanistic social sciences.  This session hosts a conversation exploring the public humanities in the digital sphere with Dr. Emily Pugh (Digital Humanities Specialist, The Getty Research Institute) and Dr. Anne-Marie Womack (Professor of Practice and Director of Writing, Tulane University; creator of AccessibleSyllabus.com). Panelists will address topics such as how digital technologies are utilized to reach and teach broader audiences, expand archival collections, and enrich research initiatives. The conversation will be moderated by Perry Collins, MLIS, MA; Copyright & Open Educational Resources Librarian, University of Florida.

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Biographies:

Dr. Emily Pugh oversees the Digital Art History department at The Getty Research Institute (GRI), which undertakes research activities in connection with technology initiatives. Examples of such initiatives include Ed Ruscha Streets of Los Angeles and PhotoTech, a project to digitize 700,000 objects from the GRI’s Photo Archive. Pugh received her Ph.D. in Art History from the CUNY Graduate Center where her studies focused on modern and contemporary architectural history. Her book on architecture and urban development in Cold War Berlin was published in 2014 as Architecture, Politics, and Identity in Divided Berlin by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Pugh’s work in architecture and digital art history has been supported by the Center for Architecture Theory Criticism History at the University of Queensland, the Center for Digital Humanities Research at Australian National University, and the European Architectural History Network.

Dr. Anne-Marie Womack is a Professor of Practice at Tulane University and creator of the award-winning AccessibleSyllabus.com. Her articles appear in College Composition and Communication, Pedagogy, and Composition Forum, among others. In 2016, her co-authored article “Making Disability Part of the Conversation” was recognized as Hybrid Pedagogy’s most read publication of the year. In 2020, she published Reading and Writing for Civic Literacy 3rd edition, co-authored for Routledge Press. Currently, she is working on 2 projects: a book-length expansion of the Accessible Syllabus project and Inclusive Teaching in College Classrooms, another co-authored textbook for Routledge.

Perry Collins, MLIS, MA is the Copyright & Open Educational Resources Librarian at the University of Florida. As a faculty member within the Libraries’ Digital Partnerships & Strategies unit, she co-leads programs that prioritize the creation and reuse of digital resources to enhance scholarship and teaching. Collins is an editor with LibraryPress@UF, an open access imprint of the Libraries and the University Press of Florida, and she works closely with the Digital Library of the Caribbean as a liaison on copyright and digital scholarship initiatives. Before joining UF, Collins was a program officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities.

This event is free and open to an audience beyond UF graduate students.

The 2021 Graduate Public Humanities Institute has been generously cosponsored by the Hyatt and Cici Brown Professor of Florida Archaeology (Kenneth E. Sassaman), the Rothman Family Chair in the Humanities (Jack Davis), the UF Chief Diversity Officer, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School.

For questions about the Graduate Public Humanities Institute, please contact Dr. Kristen Galvin, Assistant Director for Graduate Engagement at the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, kgalvin@ufl.edu.