{"meta":{"link":""},"contact":{"name":{"first":"Emily","last":"Esten"},"url":"emilyesten.com","mail":"estenemily@gmail.com","twitter":"\\@sheishistoric","github":"github.com/sheishistoric","linkedin":"linkedin.com/in/estenemily"},"profile":"I am a digital scholar, a public humanities practitioner, and public historian. I’m currently the Judaica Digital Humanities Project Coordinator for Penn Libraries and assist with Contingent Magazine.","profile-public":"I practice digital public humanities, bringing my love for museums and my interest in digital tools together. I think about how community building, engagement, and development in relation to the humanities can be augmented or transformed for the better with technology. My passion is for collaborating on public projects that think critically about audience, content, and method. I'm an ardent supporter of #MuseumsAreNotNeutral, a campaign that urges museum professionals to acknowledge and address social realities, and believe museums are most responsive when we bring people ad collections together to benefit our communities.","profile-digital":"With universities and cultural institutions, I build innovative digital projects to engage audiences with objects, stories, and ideas. My philosophy for collaborating on digital projects comes from Allison Parrish's \"Hacker Questions\".","education":[{"institution":"Brown University","degree":"MA, Public Humanities","date":"2018"},{"institution":"University of Massachusetts Amherst","degree":"BA, History; BA, Digital Humanities","date":"2016","awards":"magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa"}],"employment-university":[{"title":"Judaica Digital Humanities Coordinator","company":"Penn Libraries","date":"2019–Present","context":"Mangaging the research and development of Judaica Digital Humanities at Penn, I deepen public and scholarly engagement with Penn's Judiaca materials.","page-tag-tech":"digital","page-tag":"publichumanities"},{"title":"Researcher and Collaborator, Mapping Violence","company":"Brown University, Department of American Studies","date":"2018–2019","context":"As a Researcher and Collaborator on the team, I completed four new entries for the database, built a prototype map in Carto of the first phase of research, and built the foundation for a digital exhibit on the Porvenir Massacre. As the lead digital specialist, I also coordinated with student developers and system administrators to maintain and operate the existing database, and provided strategic direction on the layout, interface, and content for project website. All the code for the draft of the digital exhibit can be found on the GitHub repository.","page-tag-tech":"digital"},{"title":"Teaching Assistant","company":"Brown University, School of Professional Studies","date":"2017","context":"Introduced students to critical reading & literary theory in online English course Fantastic Places and Unhuman Humans","page-tag-tech":"digital"},{"title":"Digital Projects Assistant","company":"Brown University, Department of American Studies","date":"2016-2017","context":"Explored museum history and catalog history by designing two digital projects using Tiki-Toki, Google Sheets, and Tableau Public visualizations","page-tag-tech":"digital"},{"title":"Research Intern","company":"University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of History","date":"2013–2016","context":"Researched Pacific Islander and Jewish communities' involvement in the whaling industry for NPS report"},{"title":"Academic Intern","company":"University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of History","date":"2014","context":"Researched Latinx gay rights events for the “LGBT Rights in the Americas” Timeline Project"}],"employment-publichumanities":[{"title":"Site Designer","company":"Contingent Magazine","date":"2019–Present","context":"Developed Contingent Magazine Theme for Wordpress and coordinated social media roll-out for launch of Contingent Magazine","url":"contingentmagazine.org","page-tag-tech":"digital","page-tag":"publichumanities"},{"title":"Exhibition Researcher","company":"New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center","date":"2018","context":"I volunteered at the New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center on an upcoming exhibition exploring the evolution of wheelhouse technology and vessel design in the fishing industry from 1900-present, and the impact of these changes on fishermen, their families, and their communities. I researched the Center’s extensive oral history collection to find references to uses and changes in wheelhouse technology, providing a foundation for initial exhibition research. I also selected key segments oral history segments and clipped/converted them for use in digital exhibits and audio stations throughout the Center.","page-tag":"publichumanities"},{"title":"Humanities Scholar","company":"New Bedford Ballet Foundation","date":"2018","context":"Served as Humanities Scholar on Mass Humanities-funded initiative with New Bedford Ballet to introduce fifth grade students to local history story of exploration, travel, and cultural exchange in 19th-century Massachusetts. Read coverage of the ballet performance and program at {{http://www.southcoasttoday.com/news/20180323/from-japan-to-southcoast-enduring-bond |SouthCoast Today}}","page-tag":"publichumanities"},{"title":"Digital Humanities Fellow","company":"Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate","date":"2018","context":"As the Digital Humanities Fellow at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, I consider how technology could amplify narratives about the Kennedy family, the Senator’s work in the Senate, and current issues in the US government. In addition to planning out future experiences in VR, AR, and digital exhibit content, I develped two iPad applications and one digital projection/web display regarding the 2018 U.S. Senate elections.","page-tag":"publichumanities","page-tag-tech":"digital"},{"title":"Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access","company":"Evaluation Assistant","date":"2016","context":"Led evaluation case studies of institutional use of Smithsonian Learning Lab, a digital collections platform that allows users to discover Smithsonian Institution digital resources, and use them to create and share collections tailored to their needs and that of their target audiences. I conducted and transcribed interviews; developed data collection questionnaires, consent forms, and rubrics; and drafted summaries of case study data for internal and public consumption.","page-tag-tech":"digital","page-tag":"publichumanities"},{"title":"Volunteer","company":"New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park","date":"2016–2018","context":"Shared stories of New Bedford's community and whaling industry by providing the public with information about the park through formal and informal interpretation","page-tag":"publichumanities"},{"title":"Collections and Curation Management Intern","company":"Edward M. 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Data hosted on GitHub.","page-tag-tech":"digital","page-tag":"publichumanities"},{"title":"Inside the Lost Museum","role":"PI with Steven Lubar","url":"https://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/690396/Inside-the-Lost-Museum/","date":"2016","context":"An interactive timeline as a digital companion to his book, Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present (July 2017 by Harvard University Press.)","page-tag-tech":"digital"}],"exhibitions":[{"title":"Wheelhouse Technology from Sounding Leads to Satellites","role":"Researcher","location":"New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center","date":"2019","context":"Over the past century, new technologies have allowed New Bedford’s fleet to arrive on the grounds faster, fish safer, and communicate more easily. But at what cost? This exhibit considers the evolution and impact of technological change on the industry, the community, and the fish. In addition to considering the science behind devices such as EPIRB, SONAR, and LORAN, the exhibit and programs will consider topics such as Technology & Privacy, Dependence on Technology, and Technology & Sustainability.","page-tag":"publichumanities","url":""},{"title":"2018 U.S. Senate Election Map","role":"Technical Lead","location":"Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate","url":"","date":"2018","context":"This technology-driven projected display immersed visitors in the 2018 U.S. Senate Elections, where at total of 35 seats are up for election. Of the 35 seats up for election, 23 are held by Democrats, 8 by Republicans, and 2 by Independents. Projected onto the institute’s exhibit hall walls and available on tablets, visitors explore the races allowing the candidates and races in each of the 33 states, and learned about how the balance of power shifts between political parties each election.","page-tag-tech":"digital","page-tag":"publichumanities"},{"title":"Senate Staff Office","role":"Technical Lead","location":"Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate","url":"","date":"2018","context":"The Senate Staff Office exhibit features the exemplary work of Senator Kennedy’s staff, and what is involved in working in a United States Senator’s office. Through a mixture of hands-on activities, video features, and office artifacts, visitors have the opportunity to hear firsthand stories from Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s staff and take on the role of those assigned with completing daily Senate office responsibilities. The interactive exhibit highlights some of the key roles in the Washington, D.C. office and the home state office, including the jobs of scheduler, chief of staff, legislative assistant, and press secretary.","page-tag-tech":"digital","page-tag":"publichumanities"}],"service":[{"title":"Programming and Scholarship Committee Member, ACH 2019","institution":"Association for Computers and the Humanities","year":"2018–19","page-tag-tech":"digital"},{"title":"Board Member","institution":"Somerset Cultural Council","year":"2016-2018","page-tag":"publichumanities"}],"membership":[{"title":"Member","institution":"Museum Computer Network","year":"2019-Present","page-tag-tech":"digital","page-tag":"publichumanities"},{"title":"Member","institution":"Association for Computers and the Humanities","year":"2018-Present"},{"title":"Member","page-tag-tech":"digital","institution":"Fembot Collective","year":"2017-Present"},{"title":"Member","institution":"National Council for Public History","year":"2016-Present","page-tag":"publichumanities"}],"skills":[{"title":"Languages","things":"Spanish (conversational)"},{"title":"Computer-Adjacent Languages","things":"HTML, CSS, Jekyll + Liquid templating (reading), Python (reading), Swift (reading)"},{"title":"Social Media","things":"Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, HootSuite, TweetDeck"},{"title":"Jack of All Trades","things":"Tableau Public, Garageband, iMovie, Audacity, Photoshop, Illustrator, WordPress, Drupal, Wikia"}]}