Price Lab Podcast

In this episode, Price Lab Managing Director, Stewart Varner, talks to Joel Lee about his time at Penn navigating the spaces between his two majors–English and Computer Science, the impact a Digital Humanities class had on his time at Penn as well as his current job, and other humanities projects he’s worked on. This episode was edited by Steven Perez. Intro Music by Steven Perez.

In this episode, Price Lab Managing Director, Stewart Varner, talks to Malkia Okech about her time at Penn, working with the Penn & Slavery Project, and other public humanities projects she's worked on post-graduation. Malkia Okech was the first student to complete the minor in Digital Humanities at Penn. This episode was edited by Steven Perez. Intro Music by Steven Perez.

This special episode of the Price Lab Podcast is dedicated to our colleague and friend Scott Enderle who died on September 11, 2021. Scott was one of the DH Specialists associated with the Price Lab and a leading thinker and innovator in quantitative literary analysis. More importantly, he was simply one of the best people most of us knew. This episode combines some found audio of Scott talking ab...

In this episode, we are joined by Price Lab's Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (2018-2020), Julie Beth Napolin. In collaboration with former Mellon Graduate Fellow (2018-2019), Orchid Tierney, Napolin narrates the story of her work as a sound scholar, radio journalist, and digital humanist. She discusses the power of oral history, biases built into audio technology, and the importance of investigat...

Managing Director of the Price Lab, Stewart Varner, welcomes Jessica Marie Johnson (Assistant Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University) to talk about her work as a Historian and Black Studies scholar. In this episode, Johnson discusses her commitment to black feminist thought, the need for scholars to stay aware of how the general public discusses histories of slavery and ideas about enslave...

Founding faculty director of the Price Lab for Digital Humanities, Dr. Jim English (John Welsh Centennial Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania) joined us to discuss the creation of the Price Lab and his forays into incorporating digital humanities tools and methods into his own research and pedagogy. A specialist in modern and contemporary British fiction, his essays have appeared in P...

In this episode, not one, but two former Price Lab Fellows team up to talk about digital humanities! Price Lab Research Fellow, Emily Hammer (Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities, Archaeology and Anthropology of the Ancient World in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations), spoke with Price Lab Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Lisa Poggiali about the ways digital tools have infor...

In 2020, Price Lab's week-long digital humanities training institute Dream Lab was canceled due to safety concerns around COVID-19. We created this series of podcasts not as a replacement, but rather to introduce you to some of the people who make Dream Lab such a great experience! We’re all familiar with tidying up our living spaces, but how can data be tidied up? Matt Lincoln is a research...

Welcome to the Price Lab Podcast, a series focused on the people who are building, using, and critiquing the digital tools and techniques transforming the humanities. In each episode, friends of the Price Lab will speak to a different scholar about their work and the digital tools and resources shaping their research and pedagogy. In our first episode, Price Lab Fellow Julie Napolin talks with Jes...

In today’s episode, Price Lab fellow Julie Napolin interviews scholar, author and “data visionary” Wendy Chun(Canada 150 Chair in New Media, School of Communication at Simon Fraser University). Chun’s current work on digital media draws from her study of Systems Design Engineering and English Literature. She is the author of several books, most recently, Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New M...

In our third episode, Price Mellon Graduate Fellow (2018-2019), Orchid Tierney, interviews Katie Rawson (Director of Learning Innovation, Penn Libraries). They review Katie’s journey into the digital humanities, her thoughts on digital tools and resources in pedagogical spaces, and the exciting conceptual possibilities of virtual reality. In addition to her work at Penn, Katie has published on foo...

In 2020, Price Lab's week-long digital humanities training institute Dream Lab was canceled due to safety concerns around COVID-19. We created this series of podcasts not as a replacement, but rather to introduce you to some of the people who make Dream Lab such a great experience! CLIR Bollinger Fellow, Jennifer Garcon,  joined us to discuss sustainability, tech, community control, and culti...

In 2020, Price Lab's week-long digital humanities training institute Dream Lab was canceled due to safety concerns around COVID-19. We created this series of podcasts not as a replacement, but rather to introduce you to some of the people who make Dream Lab such a great experience! Programming is notoriously goal-oriented: if there is a problem you work to solve it. Creative coding is differe...

In 2020, Price Lab's week-long digital humanities training institute Dream Lab was canceled due to safety concerns around COVID-19. We created this series of podcasts not as a replacement, but rather to introduce you to some of the people who make Dream Lab such a great experience! In the final episode of the Dream Lab series, we're joined by Dr. Clayton Colmon, the Associate Director of...

In 2020, Price Lab's week-long digital humanities training institute Dream Lab was canceled due to safety concerns around COVID-19. We created this series of podcasts not as a replacement, but rather to introduce you to some of the people who make Dream Lab such a great experience! Freely available tools and excellent tutorials have made it easier to apply computational text analysis techniqu...

In 2020, Price Lab's week-long digital humanities training institute Dream Lab was canceled due to safety concerns around COVID-19. We created this series of podcasts not as a replacement, but rather to introduce you to some of the people who make Dream Lab such a great experience! How do we integrate DH into the classroom in ways that are substantive, critical, and inclusive? Are there ways...

In 2020, Price Lab's week-long digital humanities training institute Dream Lab was canceled due to safety concerns around COVID-19. We created this series of podcasts not as a replacement, but rather to introduce you to some of the people who make Dream Lab such a great experience! Alex Gil, Digital Scholarship Librarian at Columbia University,  joined the podcast to talk about minimal comput...

In 2020, Price Lab's week-long digital humanities training institute Dream Lab was canceled due to safety concerns around COVID-19. We created this series of podcasts not as a replacement, but rather to introduce you to some of the people who make Dream Lab such a great experience! Dot Porter, Curator of Digital Research Services in the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the Unive...

To kick off the second season of the Price Lab Podcast, we're joined by Sylvester A. Johnson (Director of the Virginia Tech Center for Humanities). Johnson is a nationally recognized humanities scholar specializing in the study of race, technology, and religion.  He speaks about his work in the digital humanities and the importance of fostering the humanities in STEM education. The discussion...

To kick off the second season of the Price Lab Podcast, we're joined by Sylvester A. Johnson (Director of the Virginia Tech Center for Humanities). Johnson is a nationally recognized humanities scholar specializing in the study of race, technology, and religion.  He speaks about his work in the digital humanities and the importance of fostering the humanities in STEM education. The discussion...

We opened the Price Lab's podcast vault to release this episode with former Mellon Graduate Fellow, Florian Breitkopf, in conversation with Prof. Hilde De Weerdt (Chinese History, University of Leiden). They discuss Prof. De Weerdt's path to Chinese studies, the presence of the digital humanities in European academia, and how working with digital methodologies can help scholars collabora...

In this episode, Price Lab's Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellow, Whitney Trettien (Assistant Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania), interviews  Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Director of Digital Humanities; Professor of English, Michigan State University). Fitzpatrick and Trettien discuss the opportunities of digital publishing, as well as the importance of higher education, and the status o...

Lauren Klein is an Associate Professor at Emory University. Price Lab fellow Nicky Agate joined Lauren over Zoom to talk about Lauren's book, Data Feminism, co-authored with Catherine D’Ignazio. Lauren and Nicky discuss the intersection of feminist thinking and data science, the genesis of data visualization, and how data can be used for social good. Music by   Blue Dot Sessions Poddington Be...

In this episode, Thomas Padilla (Director of Information Systems and Technology Strategy, Center for Research Libraries) joins Penn's Dr. Jennifer Garcon to discuss the Collections as Data project, reparative justice practices in DH, and the possibilities and pitfalls of the word community. Music by   Blue Dot Sessions Resources Always Already Computational: Collections as Data Thomas Padilla...

Lauren Tilton is an Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of Rhetoric & Communication Studies at the University of Richmond and a Research Fellow in the Digital Scholarship Lab. Her work fits loosely within visual studies but she has introduced many in DH to something she and her frequent collaborator Taylor Arnold call distant viewing; a suite of methods as well as a the...