The UConn Department of History is happy to announce the second event in its Career Pathways series, made possible with the support of the UConn Humanities Institute and a Career Diversity Grant from the American Historical Association. The theme for this event is "Digital Futures of History."
On Monday, Dec. 5th, Dan Cohen (Ph.D. Yale University) will speak on "The Digital Public Library of America and the History Around Us." from 1-2:15 in the UConn Humanities Institute Conference Room, Babbidge Library, 4th floor.
Dr. Cohen is the founding Executive Director of the Digital Public Library of America, which is bringing together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and making them freely available to the world. Until 2013, he was Professor of History in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University and the Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. He is co-author of Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), author of Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), and co-editor of Hacking the Academy (University of Michigan Press, 2012).
For more information, contact: Mark Healey at mark.healey@uconn.edu