Summer IDEaS

Summer IDEaS—the Summer Institute for Digital Exploration at Schaffer—is Union College's and Schaffer Library's first digital scholarship summer program: a librarian-taught, extra-curricular, project-based, research opportunity that unites traditional research and digital humanities (DH).

I created Summer IDEaS in 2021 and am its lead instructor.

Summer IDEaS 2021 had three students from across the disciplines critically engage with digital humanities, archival research, and identity and power at Union College by collaboratively creating a digital edition of the diaries of Jonathan Pearson (1813-87), Union alumnus, professor, librarian, and treasurer.