Emily Esten

digital projects for the public

Write me at estenemily [at] gmail.com

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Writing

About Me

I am 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.

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

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

Academia

Journals
“Scribes, Scholars, and Scripts: Reviewing Data from Scribes of the Cairo Geniza”
(forthcoming) • 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
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