Tobias Pester


About Tobias Pester

I am a graduate student of global history at Columbia University and the London School of Economics and Political Science. I am involved in kicking off Barnard Teaches, a four-year initiative at Barnard College funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Our aim is to explore, evaluate, and develop teaching approaches in the humanities that gainfully incorporate computerized methods and build partnerships with resident cultural institutions. At Barnard College, in cooperation with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, my role is to teach students, guide their work, and help them bring their projects to fruition. That combines realizing an editorial vision of academic writing and programming code. With regard to utilizing digital capacities for historical research, I am currently working on processing networks that involve multiple markers per individual or institution. This will allow me to reconstruct the multiple layers, and therefore multiple conceptual and narrative angles, of one and the same network. #DH #digitalhumanities #barnardteaches #studioatbutler #ColumbiaDH #twitterstorians @sarahgreene101 @elotroalex #annehigonnet @philomonk #mellonfoundation

The single most important thing to teach your #DH students – reference management

Computerized scholarship is a beautiful thing. So much can be done, we weren’t able to do before. We can enter troves of data, tag it intelligently, and explore new connections through visualization, or discover them quicker than before. We can present scholarship in new ways — if done right, more […]

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