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Miriam Posner, Ph.D.
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Current Position
Assistant Professor
Information Studies and Digital Humanities
University of California, Los Angeles
July 2017 present
Education
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Ph.D., Film Studies and American Studies, 2011
Reed College, Portland, Oregon
B.A., History, December 2001
Previous Experience
Coordinator and Core Faculty, Digital Humanities Program
University of California, Los Angeles
February 2012 June 2017
Administered and taught in UCLA's Digital Humanities minor and graduate certificate. Grew the program from its inception to enrollment of over 100 students.
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Emory University Library
June 2010 January 2012
Researched, designed, and co-wrote successful $695,000 Mellon grant to fund this fledgling, library-based digital humanities center. Performed outreach, offered workshops, and provided research consultations to faculty and graduate students.
Teaching Experience
University of California, Los Angeles
Selfies, Snapchat, and Cyberbullies: Coming of Age Online, Winter 2015
Digital Labor, Materiality, and Urban Space, Winter 2014
Introduction to Digital Humanities (undergraduate lecture), Fall 2013 and 2014
Digital Humanities Capstone: Databases, Spring 2013
Introduction to Digital Humanities (graduate seminar), Fall 2012
Web Design Intensive, Spring 2012
Publications
Digital Humanities." In The Craft of Criticism: Critical Media Studies in Practice edited by Mary Celeste Kearney and Michael Kackman, 331-46. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2018.
Posner, Miriam, and Marika Cifor. Generative Tensions: Building a Digital Project on Early African American Race Film."" American Quarterly 70, no. 3 (September 29, 2018): 709–14.
Tracing a Community of Practice: A Database of Early African-American Race Film" (with Marika Cifor), Moving Image 17.2 (Fall 2017).
The Early African-American Race Film Database" (with Marika Cifor, Hanna Girma, Wiliam Lam, and Shanya Norman), Journal of Open Humanities Data.
Data as Media (with Lauren Klein), Feminist Media Histories 3:3 (Summer 2017).
What's Next: The Radical, Unrealized Potential of Digital Humanities," and Here and There: Building Community in the Digital Humanities," in Lauren Klein and Matthew Gold, ed., Debates in the Digital Humanities (University of Minnesota, 2016).
How is a Digital Project Like a Film?" in Charles Acland and Eric Hoyt, ed., The Arclight Guide to Media Studies and Digital Humanities (REFRAME, 2016).
Khaki Fever, Charity Girls, and The End of the Road: Hostile Worlds of Sex and Commerce in an Early Sexual Hygiene Film," forthcoming in Communicating Good Health: Movies, Medicine, and the Cultures of Risk in the Twentieth Century (University of Rochester, 2016)
No Half Measures: Overcoming Common Challenges to Doing Digital Humanities in the Library, Journal of Library Administration 53:1 (January 2013)
Think Talk Make Do: Power and the Digital Humanities, Journal of Digital Humanities 1:2 (June 2012).
Communicating Disease: Germ Theory and Narrative in Thomas Edison's Red Cross Seal Films, in Marsha Orgeron et al., Learning with the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States (Oxford, 2011).
Digital Humanities (SPEC Kit #326) with Tim Bryson, Frances Maloy, Alain St. Pierre, and Stewart Varner, Association of Research Libraries, November 2011.
Conventions of Display: Cultures of Exhibition in American Medicine, Anastasia Filippoupoliti, ed., The Science Exhibition: Curation, Design, Communication (MuseumsEtc., 2010).
Book review. Stagestruck Filmmaker: D.W. Griffith and the American Theatre, by David Mayer, Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 30:1 (Spring 2010).
Selected Presentations
Humanities Data: A Necessary Contradiction
Harvard Purdue Data Management Symposium, Cambridge, Mass., June 2015
Fostering a Digital Humanities Project within the American Studies Paradigm
Yale University, New Haven, CT, May 2015
DH101 and Head-and-Shoulder-Hunting in the Americas: Understanding Lobotomy’s Visual Culture
New York University, May 2015
How Did They Make That? Reverse-Engineering Digital Humanities Projects
Middlebury College, April 2015
Head-and-Shoulder-Hunting in the Americas: Understanding Lobotomy’s Visual Culture
Amherst College, April 2015
Head-and-Shoulder-Hunting in the Americas: Understanding Lobotomy’s Visual Culture
University of Maryland, March 2015
Building DH at a Big Public University
Texas A&M University, College Station, September 2014
Here and There: Creating a Digital Humanities Community (keynote)
Digital Frontiers, University of North Texas, Denton, September 2014
Digital Humanities and Film and Media Studies: Staging an Encounter
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, March 2013
Digital Humanities in the Library
Digital Library Federation Fall Forum, October 2011
Sexual Commerce: Negotiating Sex in The End of the Road
Brocher Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland, June 2011
Depth Perception: Surgical Film and the Problem of Anatomical Legibility
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2011
Head and Shoulder Hunting in the Americas: Water Freeman and the Visual Culture of Lobotomy
American Association for the History of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, April 2010
Depth Perception: Narrative in American Surgical Films
American Association for the History of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, April 2010
Conventions of Display: Exhibition in Twentieth-Century American Medicine
American Association for the History of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, April 2009
Cut to Measure: Lobotomy's Visual Archive
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2008
Freeman and Watts Make a Movie: Exploring the Visual Culture of Lobotomy, 1936 1950
Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, October 2007
Written on the Brain: Neurosurgery and the Documentary Endeavor
Film and History Annual Conference, Dallas, November 2006
Making Way for the Chain: The Struggle Over Grocery Chains, 1925 1935
The History of Capitalism in North America, Harvard University, October 2006
Six Edison Films About Tuberculosis
Mephistos Conference, University of Chicago, April 2006
Awards and Honors
Joseph L. Daniels Fellow, 2009 2010
Yale University Dissertation Fellowship, 2008 2009
Digital Humanities Summer Institute (University of Victoria) Scholarship, Summer 2009
John F. Enders Research Grant, May 2008
Yale University Graduate School Conference Travel Award, May 2006 and December 2007
Service
Executive Council Member, 2014-2017
Association for Computing and the Humanities
Peer Reviewer, Preservation & Access Research & Development Program, September 2014
National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Preservation and Access
Selection committee member, 2014
Council on Library and Information Resources Dissertation Fellowships
Peer reviewer, 2013 and 2014
Digital Humanities Annual Meeting
Peer reviewer, current
Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, and the Digital Humanities Quarterly
Editor, 2012-Present
Programming Historian 2 (an open-access resource for teaching programming to historians)
Advisory Board Member, History Project, 2011-2012
Research Support Services for Scholars (An Ithaka S+R Program)
Evaluator, Start-Up Grants, 2011
National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities