Archiving Community
with Rachel Deblinger & K. J. Rawson
This is the fifth in a series of lectures organized by the Digital Humanities Network at Ohio State. We hope you can join us for this and ongoing conversations as we work towards building a sustainable network for research, teaching, and community outreach in digital humanities.
This series is sponsored the Humanities Collaboratory, the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme, the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, & University Libraries
Rachel Deblinger is the Director of the Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP) at the UCLA Library, a granting program that funds the digitization and preservation of at-risk cultural heritage materials from around the world. Before leading MEAP, Deblinger managed Mellon-funded Public Humanities initiatives at The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and was the Founding Director of the UC Santa Cruz Digital Scholarship Commons. Trained as a historian, her research focuses on early postwar Holocaust narratives, media technology, and the efforts of Jewish communal organizations to aid survivors in Europe.
K.J. Rawson is an Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University. He is also the founder and director of the Digital Transgender Archive, an award-winning online repository of trans-related historical materials, and he is the co-chair of the editorial board of the Homosaurus, an international LGBTQ linked data vocabulary. Dr. Rawson's work is at the intersections of Rhetoric, the Digital Humanities, and Queer, Trans, and Feminist Studies.
