I’m delighted to come speak at your institution about digital art history, the use and abuse of network analysis and machine learning in historical study, as well as collections data infrastructure for supporting research, and alternative career paths for PhDs. Contact me by email!

Recent invited lectures

• What is non-consumptive data and what can you do with it?
  NISO+, (14 February 2023)

• Digital Art History, Network Analysis, and DH Dissertations
  Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture, University of Maryland (1 November 2021)

• The Labor Behind DH Data Complexity
  Making Research Data Public: Workshopping Data Management for Digital Humanities , University of Ottawa Library (21 May 2021)

• Centering the Human Expert: Experiments in Computer Vision Infrastructure for Digital Collection Management
  CNI Spring 2021 Virtual Membership Meeting, (15 March 2021)

• From Social Networks to Ontological Networks: The Tricky Relationship Between DH and GLAM Data
  Vanderbilt University, (February 11 2021)

• Yet another digital surrogate? Computer vision and the future of collections management systems
  DHNord 2020: The Measurement of Images , Lille Nord de France (November 18 2020)

• From Supercomputer to Static Site: Boiling Down Big Research Data for Preservation and Usability
  code4lib, Pittsburgh (9 March 2020)

• Ways of Forgetting: The Librarian, The Historian, and the Machine
  Sawyer Seminar “Information Ecosystems”, University of Pittsburgh (6 February 2020)

• The Auctioneer’s Genre: Digital Approaches to Category Construction and the Rhetoric of the 18th Century Art Market
  Department of Art History, Princeton University (18 October 2019)

• ‘Linked Open Data for Art Historians’ and ‘Dealing with Uncertain and Missing Data’
  Getty Foundation “Network Analysis + Digital Art History” Advanced Workshop, University of Pittsburgh (29 July - 2 August 2019)

• The State of Digital Humanities Software Development
  ACH Conference, Pittsburgh (26 July 2019)

• What Data Science Gets Wrong About Art History, And Why That Makes It Useful
  Elon University Art History Speaker Series, (27 February 2019)

• Enjoying the Reputation of Rubens: Language, Category, and Construction in the History of the Art Market
  Duke University, (2 November 2018)