Comments on: Making It Count: Toward a Third Way

By: #alt-ac: alternate academic careers for humanities scholars « Bethany Nowviskie

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:44:46 +0000

[...] thanks to the encouragement of the first respondents: CHNM’s Tom Scheinfeldt (of the “third way”) and Jason Rhody of the NEH Office of Digital Humanities, who brought us rapidly from reflection [...]

By: Caveat Lector » Blog Archive » Bamboo faultlines

Caveat Lector » Blog Archive » Bamboo faultlines — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:41:23 +0000

[...] a humanities-computing scholar, but in my heart if not my job description, I’m part of the third way of doing digital-humanities work, and I want there to be more third-wayers in the [...]

By: Digital Humanities Jobs « Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

Digital Humanities Jobs « Digital Scholarship in the Humanities — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:02:04 +0000

[...] computing departments as well as in academic departments. (Tom Scheinfeldt recently wrote a great post about the need to establish employment models for non-tenure-track researchers and developers [...]

By: Tom Scheinfeldt

Tom Scheinfeldt — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:52:53 +0000

Laurie– Thanks for the comment. I completely agree that we should look to the library and cultural heritage fields for new models. The digital turn has already (happily) forced tremendous convergence between humanities scholarship, libraries, museums, and archives, and it could be that this employment question will be solved in much the same way. Tom

By: Laurie Taylor

Laurie Taylor — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:56:21 +0000

For my interests in digital humanities I learned that many institutions offer tenure to librarians while changing the normal research, service, and teaching, to put service first, followed by research and teaching. This isn’t a perfect or a full solution, but it is an option that includes tenure and research that also respects that “work” can be service as well as research when that work is necessary as part of the problem solving and critical inquiry necessary to advance the field as the work you’re doing from CHNM at GMU clearly is.

By: Net-Scholarship - Digital Academics & the Biblical-Theological World « Hebrew Scriptures and More . . . .

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:01:11 +0000

[...] Scheinfeldt at Found History has posted a thought provoking article dealing with digital academics: Making It Count: Toward a Third Way. Scheinfeldt is willing to agree with Mills Kelly’s division of digital academic studies [...]