Clio, Rewired: Propositions for the Future of Digital History Pedagogy in Canada

Author:

Martin Kimberley1

Affiliation:

1. assistant professor of History at the University of Guelph

Abstract

Courses on digital history methods are being offered at more Canadian universities than ever before, with both techniques and tools being embedded in courses on oral history, environmental history, and public history, to name a few. What is being taught in these classrooms and who is teaching it? Despite a wealth of digital, historical scholarship being undertaken by women, this article shows that the majority of these classes are taught by men and, furthermore, men have also authored the majority of texts and articles typically assigned in this field. Suggestions for rewiring the digital history classroom to be a more inclusive environment are made, including looking to projects in the related fields of oral, queer, and literary history.

Publisher

University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)

Subject

Religious studies,History

Reference64 articles.

1. In 2011, Roy Rosenzweig’s spouse, Deborah Kaplan, published a posthumous collection of her husband’s essays on digital history, titled Clio, Wired: The Future of the Past in the Digital Age (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011). To say this collection and the essays therein have been instrumental to our current understanding of digital history would be an understatement. However, like many other collections of digital history, and despite Rosenzweig’s focus on the web for publicizing and democratizing history, there are few mentions of women in this text. By alluding to this work in my title, I do not disagree with anything posited by Rosenzweig, but I do argue for a pedagogy in which future digital historians can see themselves in the open history web that he spoke so highly of, regardless of their gender, sexuality, or race.

2. For the purposes of this article, “DH” will be used to refer to digital humanities. Digital history will remain spelled out.

3. Jennifer L. Adams and Kevin B. Gunn. “Keeping up with. Digital Humanities,” Association of College and Research Libraries, n.d., http://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/keeping_up_with/digital_humanities; “McGill - Digital Humanities,” McGill University, https://www.mcgill.ca/digital-humanities/.

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5. Shawn Graham, Ian Milligan, and Scott Weingart. The Historian’s Macroscope: Big Digital History. London: Imperial College Press, 2014. http://themacroscope.org.

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