Projects

Digital projects

Current & in progress
Cover of Gaia's Guide International 1990/91, a lesbian travel guide, showing a globe encircled by radiating Venus symbols on a pink background
2023 – Present

Expanding Queer Cartographies

Role
Collaboration

In collaboration with Annelise Heinz, Eric Gonzaba, and Cameron Blevins, our project Expanding Queer Cartographies maps queer spaces and communities in the late 20th century. We address a critical gap in LGBTQ+ spatial history: where were the women? While gay men’s venues are increasingly documented, we know much less about where lesbian women gathered. Our project transcribes and maps tens of thousands of listings of women- and lesbian-friendly venues printed in Gaia’s Guide, the premier lesbian travel guide of the 1970s-1990s.

Screenshot of the Mapping the Gay Guides interactive map showing LGBTQ locations plotted across the United States
2019 – 2026

Mapping the Gay Guides

Role
Co-Project Director and Lead Digital Historian

Mapping the Gay Guides is an in-progress digital history project that maps entries from the Bob Damron’s Address Book, an early but longstanding travel guide aimed at gay men since the early 1960s.

www.mappingthegayguides.org →
Past projects
Interactive map visualization of municipal and private gymnasiums across Boston's wards, 1909–1922
Visualization

Boston's Gymnasiums, 1909–1922

An interactive web-based visualization mapping municipal and private gymnasiums across Boston’s wards between 1909 and 1922, with time-series attendance data across nearly fifteen years. The map reveals how public gymnasiums were strategically placed in immigrant-heavy neighborhoods as part of a broader moral reform agenda, while private gymnasiums clustered in middle-class districts. The visualization reveals a sharp decline in attendance in 1918, when most of the city’s gymnasiums, particularly those near the harbor, were repurposed as overflow hospitals during the influenza pandemic.

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Screenshot of the Digital Humanities Now publication homepage
2016-2018

Digital Humanities Now

Role
Managing Editor

Digital Humanities Now is an experimental, edited publication that highlights and distributes informally published digital humanities scholarship and resources from the open web. Since 2009, DHNow has been refining processes of review and aggregation to support conversations about the digital humanities research and practice.

digitalhumanitiesnow.org →
Screenshot of the Mining My Day text-analysis application visualizing Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day newspaper columns
2017

Mining My Day: Using Text Analysis to Understand Eleanor Roosevelt's Newspaper Columns

Role
Co-Creator

Mining My Day is a Shiny app that visualizes the common themes, or ’topics’, in Eleanor Roosevelt’s My Day columns.

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Screenshot of the PressForward project, a WordPress tool for collecting and curating web-based scholarship
2016 – 2018

PressForward

Role
Software Development Manager

Pressforward is a free and open-source software project, supported by Digital Scholar. Originally launched in 2011 at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation the tool enables teams of researchers to aggregate, filter, and disseminate relevant scholarship using the popular WordPress web publishing platform.

pressforward.org →
Network visualization from the RRCHNM 20th-anniversary digital archive project
2014

RRCHNM Digital Archive and Network Visualization

Role
Collaborator

Network visualization designed for the 20th anniversary of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. It highlighted the relationship between people and projects at RRCHNM. This network visualization sought to answer the question: How are the people and projects of Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media related? How can we visualize these relationships over a twenty-year history?

20.rrchnm.org/ →