Emily Esten

digital projects for the public

Write me at estenemily [at] gmail.com

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Writing

About Me

Check out my academic publications, reports, and documentation below. I am also a freelance writer on arts, pop culture, and public history. Most of my work has been as a contributor to the Broad Street Review, a non-profit online arts and culture publication for the greater Philadelphia area. You can read my work here.

Academia

Chapters
“Combining Values of Museums and Digital Culture in Digital Public History”
 2022 • Handbook of Digital Public History (De Gruyter Oldenbourg)
Edited
“Issue 2: Scribes”
 2021 • Startwords (Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton)
Journals
“Scribes of the Cairo Geniza”
 February 2021 • Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook
“Scribes, Scholars, and Scripts: Reviewing Data from Scribes of the Cairo Geniza”
 September 2020 • Manuscript Studies: a Journal of Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
“Digital Second Edition of Judaica Americana: A Bibliography of Publications to 1900.”
 July 2020 • Journal of Open Humanities Data
Blog
“Learning to Extract & Understand Twitter Data”
 June 29, 2017
“The Founding of Stars Hollow: Glassberg on Gilmore Girls (Part One)”
 June 12, 2017
““Meeting in the Middle”: A Report on the 2017 Meeting of the National Council on Public History”
 April 25, 2017
“HASTAC: Talking through NCPH 2017”
 February 2, 2017

Reports

Web
“Who are the #GenizaScribes: 2019-2020 Community Survey Report”
 February 2020 • Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania
“Biographical Sketch of Helen Emerson”
 January 2020 • Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920
“Scribes of the Cairo Geniza: Reviewing Sorting Phase Data”
 April 2019 • Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania
“Documenting the Use of the Smithsonian Learning Lab Among Smithsonian Museums, Research Centers, and Programmatic Offices”
 August 2018 • Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access
“Revisualizing the Crystal Palace (Cataloging History, Part 4)”
 January 5, 2018 • Medium
“Catalog as Book, File, and Database (Cataloging History, Part 3)”
 May 1, 2017 • Medium

Journalism

Web
“Living alongside grief”
 September 12, 2020 • Broad Street Review
“Pixies in Powelton”
 September 12, 2020 • Broad Street Review
“The History of Quarantine”
 March 10, 2020 • Broad Street Review
“Illuminating Iranian tradition: Twelve Gates Arts presents ‘Immanence: Tazhib in America | Behnaz Karjoo’”
 January 13, 2020 • Broad Street Review
“The Radical Power of Memes: The Center for Media at Risk presents 'Meme Tactics'”
 October 29, 2019 • Broad Street Review
Blog
“i only make bots for the mountain goats”
 December 17, 2018
“#BearToursByEmily: Rating the Public Art of Brown University’s Mascot”
 January 17, 2018
“The Degrassi Franchise on the Teenage Experience”
 November 1, 2017
“The Founding of Stars Hollow: Glassberg on Gilmore Girls (Part One)”
 June 12, 2017
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