Works

While my primary focus has been on “doing digital history” and projects, the following is a more traditional list of grants, publications, and presentations.

Awarded Grant Proposals

“Mark Twain Digital Day by Day.” Susan Jaffe Tane Digital Mark Twain Day by Day Fund. PIs: Stephen Rachman, Gillian MacDonald, and Dean Rehberger of Michigan State University, and Joeseph Lemak, Director of the Center for Mark Twain Studies. 9/1/25-8/30/27. Funded: $250,000.

“(Dis)Closing the Water Gap: Tracking Water Insecurity in the United States.” DigDeep Foundation. PIs: Rehberger, Dean; Gasteyer, Stephen. Dates: 01/01/2024 – 01/01/2026. Funded: $250,000.

“American in the Kitchen.” National Endowment for the Humanities. PIs: Veit, Helen; Rehberger, Dean; McRoberts, Leslie; Berg, Peter. Dates: 6/1/2024 – 5/31/2027. Funded: $348,657.

“Expanding and Sustaining ‘Enslaved.org: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade.” National Endowment for the Humanities. PIs: Hawthorne III, Walter; Rehberger, Dean. Dates: 10/1/23 – 9/30/25. Funded:

$349,803.77. “Enslaved.org Summer Faculty Institute: Data-Informed Methods in Slavery Studies.” National Endowment for the Humanities. PIs: Hawthorne III, Walter; Rehberger, Dean. Dates: 10/1/22 – 9/30/24. Funded: $234,939.81.

“African American, African, and African Diaspora Quilt Studies Digital Resource.” National Endowment for the Humanities. PIs: Macdowell, Marsha; Rehberger, Dean. Dates: 6/1/22 – 5/31/24. Funded: $346,206.31.

“Expanding Enslaved Hub: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade.” National Endowment for the Humanities. PIs: Rehberger, Dean; Hawthorne III, Walter. Dates: 6/1/21-5/31/24. Funded: $349,744.03.

“Social Networks and Archival Context Cooperative (SNAC): Pilot Phase III.” The Mellon Foundation (funded through University of Virginia). PIs: Rehberger, Dean. Dates: 4/1/21 – 9/30/22. Funded: $14,904.01.

“Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade.” The Mellon Foundation. PIs: Rehberger, Dean; Hawthorne III, Walter; Williams, Daryle. Dates: 3/25/21 – 3/31/24. Funded: $1,400,000.10.

“A1: KnowWhereGraph: Enriching and Linking Cross-Domain Knowledge Graphs using Spatially-Explicit AI Technologies to Address Pressing Challenges at the Human-Environment Nexus.” National Science Foundation (funded through the University of California Santa Barbara). PI: Rehberger, Dean. Dates: 9/1/20 – 8/31/24. Funded: $456,817.00.

“Quilt Index.” Robert & Ardis James Foundation. PIs: Macdowell, Marsha; Rehberger, Dean Dates: 1/1/20 – 12/31/22. Funded: $35,844.35.

“RAISE: C-Accel Pilot – Track A1 (Open Knowledge Network): Spatially-Explicit Models, Methods, and Services for Open Knowledge Networks.” National Science Foundation (funded through the University of California Santa Barbara). PIs: Rehberger, Dean. Dates: 9/1/19 – 5/31/21. Funded: $27,887.50.

“Enslaved: People of the Slave Trade.” The Mellon Foundation. PIs: Rehberger, Dean; Watrall, Ethan; Hawthorne III, Walter. Dates: 7/1/19 – 3/31/21. Funded: $931,310.00.

“Quilt Index: Operational Support.” Robert & Ardis James Foundation. PIs: Macdowell, Marsha; Rehberger, Dean. Dates: 1/1/19 – 12/31/19. Funded: $10,000.00.

“International Higher Ed Strategic Projects/Collaboration with US Universities Program.” The Mellon Foundation (funded through Stellenbosch University). PIs: Monson, Jamie; Rehberger, Dean; Hawthorne III, Walter; Dewhurst, Charles; Chambers Jr, Glenn; Auslander, Mark. Dates: 12/21/2018 – 12/31/2023. Funded: $395,000.00.

“Enslaved: People of the Slave Trade.” The Mellon Foundation. PIs: Rehberger, Dean; Watrall, Ethan; Hawthorne III, Walter. Dates: 1/1/18 – 6/30/19. Funded: $1,181,559.79.

“Public Philosophy Journal.” The Mellon Foundation. PIs: Rehberger, Dean; Long, Christopher. Dates: 9/27/17 – 12/31/19. Funded: $239,979.00.

“PAST: People of the Atlantic Slave Trade.” The Mellon Foundation. PI: Rehberger, Dean. Dates: 5/12/17 – 8/31/17. Funded: $19,450.00.

“The New Ethics of Food Study.” The Mellon Foundation (funded through University of Illinois, Urbana). PIs: Vanwieren, Gretel; Whyte, Kyle; Veit, Helen; Thorp, Laurie; Thompson, Paul; Rehberger, Dean; Rachman, Stephen; Long, Christopher; Goralnik, Lissy. Dates: 1/1/2016 – 12/30/2018. Funded: $50,418.00.

“Public Philosophy Journal.” The Mellon Foundation. PIs: Long, Christopher; Rehberger, Dean; Hart- Davidson, William; Watrall, Ethan. Dates: 9/1/15 – 6/30/17. Funded: $368,269.00.

“Journal of Public Philosophy.” The Mellon Foundation (funded though Pennsylvania State University). PIs: Rehberger, Dean; Watrall, Ethan. Dates: 1/1/15 – 6/30/15. Funded: $150,000.00.

“Analyzing Ojibwe and Cherokee Manuscripts: Proof of Concept for a Digital Archive.” Institute of Museum & Library Services. PIs: Cushman, Mary; Tegtmeyer, Rebecca; Rehberger, Dean; Potts, Liza; Gordon, Henry. Dates: 10/1/14 – 9/30/16. Funded: $25,000.00.

“AIDS Quilt Touch: A Distributed Digital Archive Platform for Digital Storytelling, Citizen Archiving, and Preservation of Cultural Heritage.” The New School PIs: Macdowell, Marsha; Rehberger, Dean; Luz, Clare (luz). Dates: 9/1/14 – 8/31/17. Funded: $40,000.00.

“What America Ate Project.” National Endowment for the Humanities. PIs: Veit, Helen; Rehberger, Dean; Berg, Peter. Dates: 5/1/14 – 4/30/17. Funded: $349,917.00.

“Journal of Public Philosophy.” The Mellon Foundation (funded through Pennsylvania State University). PIs: Rehberger, Dean. Dates: 10/16/13 – 10/31/14. Funded: $104,547.00.

“America and the “Third World”: Michigan State University Vietnam Project Archives.” National Endowment for the Humanities. PIs: Ghering, Cynthia; Rehberger, Dean; Keith, Charles. Dates: 7/1/12 – 6/30/15. Funded: $349,203.00.

“Biographies: The Atlantic Slaves Data Network.” National Endowment for the Humanities. PIs: Hawthorne III, Walter; Rehberger, Dean; Midlo-Hall, Gwen. Dates: 7/1/11 – 12/31/12. Funded: $325,417.00.

“ExplorePAhistory.com.” WITF Inc. PIs: Rehberger, Dean. Dates: 2/28/11 – 9/30/11. Funded: $42,000.00.

“TV Serendipity TV.” Serendipity LLC. PIs: Rehberger, Dean; Dyksen, Wayne. Dates: 11/15/10 – 11/15/11. Funded: $25,000.00.

“Digging into Image Data to Answer Authorship Related Questions.” National Endowment for the Humanities. PIs: Rehberger, Dean; Dyksen, Wayne. Date: 1/1/10 – 7/31/11. Funded: $99,499.00.

“Oral History in the Digital Age.” Institute of Museum & Library Services. PIs: Rehberger, Dean; Macdowell, Marsha; Dewhurst, Charles; Rakerd, Brad; Dyksen, Wayne. Dates: 10/1/09 – 9/30/12. Funded: $332,821.00.

“African Oral Narratives.” US Dept of Education. PIs: Rehberger, Dean; Wiley, David; Pritchett, James. Dates: 10/1/09 – 9/30/12. Funded: $759,021.00.

“A National Gallery of the Spoken Word. National Science Foundation.” PIs: Kornbluh, Mark, Rehberger, Dean; Deller, John; Seadle, Michael; Grant, Joyce. Dates: 8/15/09 – 7/31/13. Funded: $5,999,915.00.

“Diversity and Tolerance in The Islam of West Africa.” US Dept of Education. PIs: Robinson, David; Rehberger, Dean. Dates: 10/1/08 – 9/30/10. Funded $672,000.00.

“Media Matrix.” Intelligent Television. PIs: Kornbluh, Mark; Rehberger, Dean. Dates: 9/1/08 – 8/28/09. Funded: $10,000.00.

“Digital Humanities Internship Program.” Inst of Museum & Library Services (Funded at University of Maryland). PIs: Rehberger, Dean; Kornbluh, Mark. Dates: 9/1/08 – 8/31/12. Funded: $59,491.00.

“Preserving American Black Journal.” National Endowment for the Humanities. PIs: Rehberger, Dean; Berg, Peter. Dates: 7/1/08 – 6/30/11. Funded: $349,980.00.

“The Quilt Index: Online Tools and Ephemera Expansion.” Institute of Museum & Library Services. PIs: Rehberger, Dean; Macdowell, Marsha. Dates: 10/1/07 – 9/30/11. Funded: $911,809.00.

“The Spoken Word: New Resources to Transform Teaching and Learning.” National Science Foundation. PIs: Rehberger, Dean; Kornbluh, Mark. Date: 2/1/07 – 2/28/11. Funded: $1,599,144.00.

“H-Net: Improving Listserv Records Access.” National Historical Publications & Records Commission. PIs: Kornbluh, Mark; Knupfer, Peter; Punch, William; Rehberger, Dean; Dyksen, Wayne. Dates: 1/1/07 – 12/31/08. Funded: $299,872.00.

“From Resistance to Rights: An Audiovisual Resource on Michigan’s Civil Rights Legacy.” Institute of Museum & Library Services. PIs: Kornbluh, Mark; Rehberger, Dean; Knupfer, Peter. Dates: 10/1/06 – 9/30/08. Funded: $238,976.00.

“Center For Social Science Learning (CSSL) Catalyst Grant Proposal.” National Science Foundation. PIs: Rehberger, Dean; Kornbluh, Mark; Spiro, Rand. Dates: 10/1/05 – 9/30/06. Funded: $148,263.00.

“Explore Pennsylvania History (Expa History).” WITF Inc. PIs: Rehberger, Dean; Kornbluh, Mark. Dates: 11/8/04 – 3/28/05. Funded: $59,250.00.

Publications

Edited Books

Digital Decision Simulations: Digital Simulations for Teaching Reasoning. Cohen, Steve; Portney, Kent; Rehberger, Dean; Thorsen, Carolyn (eds). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006.

Cudjo’s Cave (1863: a novel of the American Civil War). Tuscaloosa, AL: U of Alabama P, 2001.

Book Chapters

“Fast Forward from Data to Insight: (Geographic) Knowledge Graphs and Their Applications.” with Krzysztof Janowicz, Kitty Currier, Cogan Shimizu, Rui Zhu, Meilin Shi, Colby K. Fisher, Dean Rehberger, Pascal Hitzler, Zilong Liu, Shirly. In Handbook of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence. CRC Press, 2023.

“[o]ral [h]istory and [d]igital [h]umanities” in The Digital Dialogue, eds. Doug Boyd and Mary Larson, Palgrave 2014.

“Simulations in Education,” Digital Decision Simulations: Digital Simulations for Teaching Reasoning. Cohen, Steve; Portney, Kent; Rehberger, Dean; Thorsen, Carolyn (eds). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006.

“Teaching with digital role-play simulations.” Digital Decision Simulations: Digital Simulations for Teaching Reasoning. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006.

“Introduction,” Cudjo’s Cave (1863: a novel of the American Civil War). Tuscaloosa, AL: U of Alabama P, 2001. V-XXXVIII.

“Living Texts: A Return to the Rhetorical Arts of Annotation and Commonplaces on the Internet.” Weaving a Virtual Web: Practical Approaches to New Information Technologies. New York: NCTE, 2000. 193-207.

“Blurred Boundaries and the Desire for Nationalism in Ross Lockridge’s Raintree County.” Raintree County at Forty-Five. Ed. David D. Anderson. A Midwestern Heritage Book. East Lansing, MI: The Midwestern Press, 1998.

“‘I Don’t Know Buffalo Bill’ or Hemingway and the Rhetoric of the Western.” Blowing the Bridge: Essays on Hemingway and “For Whom the Bell Tolls.” Ed. Rena Sanderson. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992. 159-184.

Articles

Shimizu, Cogan, Shirly Stephen, Antrea Christou, Kitty Currier, Mohammad Saeid Mahdavinejad, Sanaz Saki Norouzi, Abhilekha Dalal, Adrita Barua, Colby K. Fisher, Anthony D’Onofrio, Thomas Thelen, Krzysztof Janowicz, Dean Rehberger, Mark Schildhauer & Pascal Hitzler . “KnowWhereGraph-Lite: A Perspective of the KnowWhereGraph.” In Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web, edited by Fernando Ortiz-Rodriguez, Boris Villazón-Terrazas, Sanju Tiwari, and Carlos Bobed, 199–212. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47745-4_15.

Shimizu, Cogan, Andrew Eells, Seila Gonzalez, Lu Zhou, Pascal Hitzler, Alicia Sheill, Catherine Foley, and Dean Rehberger. “Ontology Design Facilitating Wikibase Integration — and a Worked Example for Historical Data.” arXiv, May 27, 2022. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2205.14032.978-3-031-47745-4.pdf

Janowicz, Krzysztof, Pascal Hitzler, Wenwen Li, Dean Rehberger, Mark Schildhauer, Rui Zhu, Cogan Shimizu et al. “now, Know Where, KnowWhereGraph: A Densely Connected, Cross-Domain Knowledge Graph and Geo-Enrichment Service Stack for Applications in Environmental Intelligence.” AI Magazine (2022).

Shimizu, Cogan, Pascal Hitzler, Quinn Hirt, Dean Rehberger, Seila Gonzalez Estrecha, Catherine Foley, Alicia M. Sheill, Walter Hawthorne, Jeff Mixter, Ethan Watrall, Ryan Carty, and Duncan Tarr. “The Enslaved Ontology: Peoples of the Historic Slave Trade.” Journal of Web Semantics 63 (2020): 100567.

“The Quilt Index: An Evolving Resource for Research and Education.”Marsha MacDowell, Mary Worrall, Beth Donaldson, Dean Rehberger, and Alicia Sheill. Quarterly News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group, Issue 127 Winter 2016–2017.

“Getting Oral History Online: Collections Management Applications,” Oral History Review Volume 40 Issue 1 Summer: Fall 2013. Oxford University Press.

With Palmer, Joy; Williams, Caroline; Walk, Paul; Kay, David; Hart-Davidson, Bill. “Digital Libraries, Personalization, and Network Effects-Unpicking the Paradoxes.” In Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, pp. 377-377. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.

With Rakerd, Brad. “Speech on the Internet: A New Educational Resource and Cautionary Note,” International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, Volume 1, Issue 5, 2005, pp.139-146.

With Kornbluh, Mark; Fegan, Michael. “Media matrix: Creating secondary repositories.” In Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, pp. 329-340. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2004.

With Jerry Goldman, Steve Cohen, and Joyce Grant. “Perspectives on Web-based Historical Audio.” In World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, vol. 2001, no. 1, pp. 1540-1540. 2001.

“Raintree County Lines.” Midwestern Miscellany XXVI (Spring 1998): 18-23. (Was selected for Honorable Mention Essay at the SSML conference).

“The Censoring of Hypertext #17.” Kairos 2.2 (Fall 1997) (22 lexias).

“Middle-Class Nightmares and the Structure of Stephen King’s It.” Journal of Weird Fiction 19 (Summer 1996): 2-8.

“Visions of the New Mexican in Public Pageants and Dramas of Santa Fe and Taos, 1918-194O.” Journal of the Southwest 37.3 (Autumn 1995): 450-469.

“Vulgar Fiction, Impure History: The Neglect of Historical Fiction.” Journal of American Culture 18.4 (Winter 1995): 77-83.

“Negotiating Authority Among Writing Centers, Writing Programs, Peer Tutors and Students,” English in Texas 25.4 (Summer 1994): 50-55.

With Stephen LeSeuer “Rocky IV, Rambo II, and the Place of the Individual in Modern American Society.” Journal of American Culture 11.2 (Summer 1988): 25-33.

“The Comic Vision of the Federalists and the Tragic Vision of the Anti-Federalists: A Study of Rhetoric in Social Context.” Utah Forum: A Journal of Political Commentary 5.2 (Spring, 1987): 75-88.

Proceedings

With Zhou, Lu, Cogan Shimizu, Pascal Hitzler, Alicia M. Sheill, Seila Gonzalez Estrecha, Catherine Foley, Duncan Tarr. “The Enslaved Dataset: A Real-World Complex Ontology Alignment Benchmark Using Wikibase Proceedings of the 29th Acm International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management.” 3197–204. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2020.

With Bajcsy, Peter; Kooper, Rob; Marini, Luigi; Shaw, Tenzing; Hedeman, Anne D.; Markley, Robert; Guiliano, Jennifer; Simeone, Michael; Hansen, Natalie; Appleford, Simon, Richardson, Justine, (2011). “Supporting Scientific Discoveries to Answer Art Authorship Related Questions Across Diverse Disciplines and Geographically Distributed Resources.” Proceedings of the DigitalHumanities 2011, 85-87.

With Conway, Paul; Fraistat, Neil; Galloway, Patricia; Kraus, Kari; Walter, Katherine. “Digital Humanities Internships: Creating a Model Ischool-digital Humanities Center Partnership.” In Proceedings of the Digital Humanities. 2010.

With MacDowell, Marsha; Worrall, Mary; Sikarskie, Amanda; Richardson, Justine. “The Quilt Index Goes 2.0: A Fiberspace Case Study.” in published proceedings of Museums and the Web 2009.

With Cohen, Steve; Eales, Susan; Fegan, Michael. “The Role of Digital Libraries in Helping Students Attend to Source Information.” In the Proceedings for Libraries without walls 6: evaluating the distributed delivery of library services. London: Facet Publishing, 2006.

With Fegan, Michael; Kornbluh, Mark. “Reevaluating Access and Preservation Through Secondary Repositories: Needs, Promises, and Challenges.” In proceeding of: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 10th European Conference, ECDL 2006, Alicante, Spain, September 17-22, 2006, Proceedings

With Kornbluh, Mark; Fegan, Michael. “Media matrix: A digital library research tool.” In Digital Libraries, 2005. JCDL’05. Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on, pp. 412-412. IEEE, 2005.

With Jerry Goldman. “The Problem of Ingesting and Delivering Complex Objects from Digital Repositories,” Published proceedings for Workshop on Multimedia Contents in Digital Libraries, June 2-3, 2003, Chania, Crete, Greece.

with Marsha McDowell, Mark Kornbluh, Justine Richardson, Scott Pennington, and Dennis Boone. “Developing Collaborative Online Collections Using an Open Source Digital Repository: The Quilt Index Case Study,” Published proceedings for Museums and the Web 2003, March 19-22, 2003, Charlotte, NC.

Posters

“KORA: A Digital Repository and Publishing Platform,” with Tegtmeyer, Rebecca; Watrall, Ethan; Foley Catherine, Journal of the Digital Humanities. Vol. 2. No. 3. 2013.

White Papers, Online Publications, and Applications

Rehberger, Dean , Walters Katherine , “CIC Digital Humanities Environmental Scan .” How published: Committee on Institutional Cooperation (http://www.cic.net/Home/Reports.aspx) (April 2012).

Rehberger, Dean , Walter Katherine , Long Christopher , Courtney Angela , Winet Jon, Mueller Martin , “CIC Digital Humanities Summit Report,” How published: Committee on Institutional Cooperation (http://www.cic.net/Home/Reports.aspx) (April 2012).

“Oral History in the Digital Age: Project Overview “. How published: http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu. Other Information: Part of an IMLS grant Project. (August 2012).

With Cohen, Steven; Rakerd Brad S; Boyd, Doug. “Survey of the Field(s). ” How published: http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu. Other Information: Part of an IMLS grant Project. (August 2012).

With Pennington Scott, “Video Equipment: Guide to Selecting and Use “. How published: http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu. Other Information: Part of an IMLS grant Project. (August 2012).

With Pennington, Scott, “Quick Tips for Better Interview Video “. How published: http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu. Other Information: Part of an IMLS grant Project. (August 2012).

With Coates Brenden , “File Naming in the Digital Age “. How published: http:// ohda.matrix.msu.edu. Other Information: Part of an IMLS grant Project. (August 2012).

With Bajcsy, Peter; Ainsworth, Peter; Rehberger, “Digging into Image Data to Answer Authorship Related Questions.” How published: NEH Whitepaper. (July 2011).

With Geimer, Matthew; Watrall, Ethan , “Kora 2.1.1. ” (Digital Repository Application) How published: SourceForge Open Source

Patent Applications

Mark Kornbluh, Dean Rehberger, Micael Fegan, Michael, Brandon Furtwangler, Steven Furtwangler, “Systems and methods for identifying, segmenting, collecting, annotating, and publishing multimedia materials.” U.S. Patent Application 10/970,482, filed October 21, 2004. US20050144305.

Productions

Cooper & Hemingway: The True Gen. Documentary. 10-11-2013. World Premiere, THEQUAD CINEMA, New York City, http://cooperhemingway.com/. (Interviewee)

“Animus,” a two-act play produced by the New Shakespeare Players, Salt Lake City, Utah (June, 1986).

Presentations

Ethical Sustainability in the Digital Humanities. #9a Inclusion and Ethics in DH, Session chair, Julie

Katherine Lindblad, ACH 2023, June 29-July 1, 2023 (Virtual Conference).

“Ethical Sustainability of Digital Humanities Projects,” 2023 with Foley, Catherine, Jeff Goeke-Smith, and

Global Digital Humanities Symposium. East Lansing, MI. March 2023. https://hcommons.org/ deposits/item/hc:52459/.

“Data-Informed Methods and the Study of Slavery in Virginia.” with Walter Hawthorne, Bailey Griffin and Lorenzo Duran Charris, undergraduate students, Michigan State University, and Heather Bollinger, Senior Archivist, Fairfax Circuits Court Historic Records Center. Session 3, Virginia Forum, Shepherd University, Sheperdstown, WV, March 16 to 18, 2023.

“Enslaved.org.” Infrastructural Interventions: Digital Humanities & Critical Infrastructure Studies

Workshop Series, June 21, 2022.

“Enslaved: People of the Historical Slave Trade,” Association for Computers in the Humanities (ACH)

Conference 2021, Virtual, July 21, 2021. with Daryle Williams, Walter Hawthorne,

‘Enslaved.org technical Infrastructure.” Recovering Ireland’s Black Past Workshop. Virtual. September 2,

2021.

“Oral History in the Digital Age 2.0,” Oral History Association (OHA), Virtual, October 14, 2021.

“Digging into Quilt Data,” Round Four Digging into Data Challenge Conference, NSF,

Alexandria, VA, January 29 – 31, 2020.

“Enslaved: Building a Linked Open Data Platform and Exploration of Historical Slave Trade,” With Walter Hawthorne. Global Digital Humanities Symposium, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, March 21-22, 2019.

“Enslaved: Project History and Technical Infrastructure,” With Walter Hawthorne. Enslaved Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, March 8-9, 2019.

“Enslaved: an Introduction to Linked Open Data and the Enslaved Ontology,” “Freedom Narratives” Symposium, the fourth workshop of the Studies in the History of the African Diaspora Documents (SHADD) initiative (www.shadd.org), Harriet Tubman Institute at York University, Toronto, December 7-8, 2018.

“Ethical Digital Project Development and Management,” Wityh Candace Keller. African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 28 – December 2, 2018.

“Enslaved: Building a Linked Open Data Platform and Exploration of Historical Slave Trade,” Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black, University of Maryland, October 18-20, 2018.

“Enslaved: Introduction, Past Challenges, Current Challenges,” Thinking Through Archives Workshop, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, Friday, April 13, 2018.

“Oral History in the Digital Age, ” African Studies Association, Chicago Ill, November 15-19, 2017.

“The Lifecycles of Digital African Studies Projects,” African Studies Association of Africa, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, October 12, 2017.

“Matrix, Archives, and the Digital Humanities,” Bhandarker, Oriental Research Institute, Pune, India, September 27, 2017.

“Digital Humanities, Museums, and Online Presence,” Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune, India, September 28, 2017.

“Digital Humanities Research and Teaching,” Preliminary Workshop of the Teaching Learning Center, Department of History, University of Pune, September 28, 2017.

“Doing Oral History in the Digital Age, Poster Session #2,” American Historical Association, Denver, Colorado, January 5-8, 2017.

“The Lifecycle of a Digital African Studies Projects: Creating Sustainable, Equitable, and Ethical Projects,” Digital Humanities 2016, Krakow, Poland 11-16, July, 2016.

“Slave Biographies: The Atlantic Slave Database Network Project” 48th Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians, Havana, Cuba June 6-10, 2016 (With Walter Hawthorne)

“What America Ate,” HASTAC 2016, Tempe, AZ, May 13, 2016 (with Helen Veit, Peter Berg).

“Life Cycle of A Digital African Studies Project,” African Studies Association, African Studies Association, November 19, 2015. San Diego, CA.Matrix and the Digital Humanities.” Invited Talk. Graduate Studies in the Humanities: A Big Ten Conversation. November 5, 2015. State College, Pennsylvania.

“Build It Right, They Will Come: Effective Social Media and Website Strategies.” with Faith Morris, Director of Marketing, National Civil Rights Museum, Panel presentation, Association of African American Museums, August 5, 2015. Memphis, TN.

“Reimagining Scholarly Publishing and the Public Philosophy Journal,” Panel with Mark Fisher, Bill Hart- Davidson, Ethan Watrall, HASTAC 2015, May 28, 2015, East Lansing, Michigan

“What do the music Man and Dragnet have to do with Grant Writing?” Invited talk, University Outreach and Engagement, April 24, 2015. East Lansing, MI.

“Supporting Digital Scholarship: How Do Scholars, Librarians, and Technologists Conceptualize Centers, Institutes, and Labs for E-Research and Learning,” Invitational Meeting at Coalition for Network Information (CNI), April 12, 2015. Seattle, Washington

“MSU Vietnam Group Archive,” LOCUS Talk: Spatial Analysis in Humanities and Social Science, Michigan State University Main Library, 3 West, REAL Classroom, February, 2 2015 East Lansing MI.

“Sustaining Digital Rhetoric, Place, and Funding,” Modern Language association, January 8, 2015 Vancouver, Canada.

“Roundtable: Merging Personal and Scholarly Digital identities: Africanists at Work.” November 20, 2014. African Studies Association Annual Meeting. Indianapolis, IN.

“Workshop: Digital African Studies.” November 20, 2014. African Studies Association Annual Meeting. Indianapolis, IN.

“History Preserving and Archiving Oral Histories,” November 21, 2014. Michigan Historical Society, Lansing Mi,

“Cultivating the Public Philosophy Journal” With Christopher Long and Bill Hart-Davidson. Bucknell Digital Schoarship Conference. November 15, 2014. Lewisburg, PA.

“Matrix African Projects” with Peter Alegi. African Studies in the Digital Age. November 13, 2014. University of Michigan African Studies, Ann Arbor, MI.

“Enhancing Access to Online Oral History: Oral history in the Digital Age (OHDA) and Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS)” with Douglas Boyd. July 10, 2014. Digital Humanities 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland.

“Cultivating the Public Philosophy Journal” with Christopher Long and Mark Fisher, Mark. July 10, 2014. Digital Humanities 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland.

“Promotion, Tenure, and New Forms of Scholarly Publishing” invited for the Franklin Lecture Series, Denison University, Ohio, April 16, 2014. Repeated talk at College of Wooster, Ohio, April 17, 2014. (Invited Talks)

“Roundtable: Day of DH 2014.” April 8, 2014. MSU Library. East Lansing, MI.

“Oral History in the Digital Age at One,” 10-10-2013. Oral History Association, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, (Refereed presentation)

“OHMS Content Management Systems Deployment,” 10-10-2013. Oral History Association, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.(Refereed presentation)

“Promoting Digital Humanities Collaborations in the CIC: A Roundtable”. 12-06-2013. Digital Humanities and Computer Science Conference, Chicago, Illinois. (Refereed presentation)

“Digital Humanities and African Studies,”. 11-23-2013. African Studies Association, Baltimore, Maryland.

“Slave Database Wireframe,”. 11-08-2013. Biographies: Atlantic Slave Database Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. (Invited presentation)

“Sustainable Scholarship”. 11-01-2013. Digital Dialogue 66: Podcast, http://www.cplong.org/ digitaldialogue/digitaldialogue-66-sustainable-scholarship/. (Invited presentation)

“Inter-Consortial Collaborative Digital Humanities Projects,”. 10-25-2013. ACM-CIC Enhancing the Midwest Knowledge Ecosystem, Meeting on Digital Humanities, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota. (Invited presentation)

“Doing Digital humanities ,” Day Long Workshop on the Digital Humanities. 10-24-2013. Digital Humanities and Community Colleges, Community College Humanities Association. (Invited presentation)

“Kora: a Digital Repository and Publishing Platform,” 09-27-2013. Network Detroit: Digital Humanities Theory and Practice, Lawrence Technological University, Southfield Michigan. (Refereed presentation)

“User-Centered Design for Mobile Experiences,”. 08-10-2013. Factory of Ideas, Center for Afro-Oriental Studies (CEAO), University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil. (Invited presentation)

“Digital Repositories,” . 08-06-2013. Factory of Ideas, Center for Afro-Oriental Studies (CEAO), University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil (Invited presentation)

“New Forms of Scholarly Publishing,” . 08-08-2013. Factory of Ideas, Center for Afro-Oriental Studies (CEAO), University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil. (Invited presentation)

“Project Design 2.0,”. 08-08-2013. Factory of Ideas, Center for Afro-Oriental Studies (CEAO), University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil. (Invited presentation)

Slave Biographies: Atlantic Database Network. 07-19-2013. Digital Humanities 2013, Lincoln, Nebraska.(Refereed presentation) Coauthors: Catherine Foley, MSU. Walter Hawthorne, MSU. Paul LaChance, Toronto. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, MSU.

“Computational Rhetoric: Adapting Graph Theory Analytics to Big Data”. 07-19-2013. Digital Humanities 2013, Lincoln, Nebraska (Refereed presentation) Coauthors: Jeff Grabill, MSU – (Presenter). Bill Hart-Davidson, MSU – (Presenter). Ryan Omizo, MSU – (Presenter).

“Archiving Civil Rights History, “ 05-17-2013. A Forum on Civil Rights in South Carolina, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, (Invited presentation)

“Collecting Civil Rights History,” 05-16-2013. A Forum on Civil Rights in South Carolina, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina (Invited presentation)

“Exploring Humanities Cyberinfrastructure” Panel member 04-30-2013. Harlan Hatcher GraduateLibrary, Ann Arbor, Michigan. (Invited presentation)

“Nodal Writing & Big Data,” 02-16-2013. Networked Humanities: From within and without the University, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky (Refereed presentation)

“User Experience Design, Big Data, and Migration.” Synergy Summit, College of Social Science, Michigan, 01-30-2013. State University, East lansing, Michigan. (Invited presentation)

“Oral History in the Digital Age.” 03-02-2012. WebWise: Baltimore, MD, (Invited presentation)

“Beyond Text: Computational Rhetoric of Objects, Audio, and Image.” 03-24-2012. Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis, MO, (Refereed presentation)

“OHMS: Enhancing Access to Oral History ,” 04-30-2012. StoryCorps, Brooklyn, NY. (Invited presentation)

“WebWise Reprise: Oral History in the Digital Age Webinar.” 06-28-2012. Connecting to Collections Online Community <http://www.connectingtocollections.org/2012-webwise-oral-history Coauthors: Boyd Doug, Univeristy of Kentucky – (Presenter).

“Locating the Mobile Museum: User-Centered Design for Mobile Experience Day Workshop.” 08-22- 2012. Association of African American Museums, Presentation, Baltimore Maryland. (Invited presentation) Coauthors: Liza Potts, Michigan State University – (Presenter).

“Locating the Mobile Museum: User-Centered Design for Mobile Experience.” 08-23-2012. Association of African American Museums, Presentation, Baltimore Maryland. (Invited presentation)

“Oral History in the Digital Age.” 10-11-2012. Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH. ( (Contributed presentation)

“Quilt Work in the Digital Humanities.” 11-02-2012. Digital Heritage Retreat, Lincoln, NE .

(Invited presentation)

“What to do with a Million Images: Rhetoric, Composition and High Performance Computing.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Atlanta, Georgia, April 6-9, 2011. (Invited Featured Speaker)

“What to do with a Million Images: Rhetoric, Composition and High Performance Computing.” 2011 CCCC Virtual Conference. April 27, 2011.

“Digging into Data.” Computers and Writing 2011. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI,

May 19-22, 2011.

“Corporate Authorship and the Classification of Quilts.” Imaging without Boundaries: Exploring the Science, Technology, and Applications of Imaging and Visualization, Beckman Center, University of Illinois, Champaign IL, October 14-15, 2010.

“Historic Voices,” Michigan Oral Association, Marquette, MI, September 25-26, 2009

(keynote talk).

“The Digital Humanities,” Digital Humanities Institute, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, November 14-15, 2009.

“High Performance Computing and the Digital Humanities,” Teagle Workshop, Union College, Schenectady, NY, September 29, 2009.

“Oral History in the Digital Age: A Conversation About Best Practices,” Oral History

Association, October 15-19, 2008.

“KORA: Building Sustainable and Adaptable Open Education Resources,” Open Education

2008, Logan, Utah, September 24-26, 2008.

“Social Networks: Changes in Communication,” Second International Forum on Online Education, East Lansing, MI, January 28, 2008.

“Project Builder: A Digital Repository Engineered to Function as a Robust content Management System,” with Michael Fegan. Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) 7th International Conference, New Orleans, LA, August 7-10, 2007.

“MediaMatrix: Writing with Digital Media,” with Michael Fegan. Invited presentation. Video, Education, and Open content: Best Practices: Production, Distribution, Technology and Law, ColumbiaUniversity, New York May 22-23, 2007.

“Project Builder: Building Rich, Contextualized Web Presentation from a Digital Archive,” EDUCAUSE, Dallas, TX, October 9-12, 2006.

“Interpreting with Memory: An Evaluation of How Users Manipulate and Use Streaming Oral History,” International Oral History Association Conference, Sydney, AU, July 12-16, 2006.

“Knowledge Architecture: Information Design and the Rhetoric of Context,” Computers & Writing 2006, May 25-28, 2006.

“Media Matrix: Writing with Multimedia,” with Michael Fegan, CCCC Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, March 22-25, 2006.

“Behind the Scenes of ExplorePAhistory.com,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2006. With Michael Fegan and Mark Kornbluh

“Oral History Online” and “Digital Audio Equipment,” MOHA Conference, Oral History for Michiganians 2005. Lansing Michigan Historical Center, (October 15, 2005)

“Enhancing Access to Online Digital Objects through Reciprocity between Primary and Secondary Repositories,” With Joy Palmer, Association for Computers and the Humanities/Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Victoria, BC, 2005.

“Media Matrix: Using the Media of Digital Libraries,” With Mark Kornbluh and Michael Fegan. Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Proceedings, University of Bath, U.K., September 12-17, 2004.

“The Problem of Ingesting and Delivering Complex Objects from Digital Repositories,” With

Jerry Goldman – Northwestern University, published proceedings for Workshop on Multimedia Contents in Digital Libraries2nd – 3rd of June 2003, Chania, Crete, Greece

“The Spoken Word: New Resources for Teaching and Learning,” with Jerry Goldman, David

Donald, and Mark Kornbluh. NSF-JISC All-Projects Meeting, Stanford , California , December 2003.

“Online Communities of Oral History and Narrative: Five Years of Digital Oral History Projects at MATRIX,” With Mark Kornbluh, Michael Fegan, David Bailey, Scott Pennington, and Justine Richardson. Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Bethesda, Maryland, October 2003.

“Delivering Resources through a Digital Repository: Research & Development.” With Michael Fegan, Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Bethesda , Maryland , October 2003.

“Technology in History and the Humanities.” With Michael Fegan, Fifth Annual Bill-Cecil

Fronsman Teaching Innovation Session: Workshop on Practical Applications for Teaching with Technology. Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, Ill, January 2003

“Data’s Dirty Underside: Understanding Metadata and Its Importance to Computers and

Writing.” Computers and Writing Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, In. May 22-24, 2003.

“The Challenge of Building Complex Objects from Digital Repositories,” With Mark Kornbluh and Michael Fegan CNI Taskforce Briefing, Washington, DC, 2003.

“Launching a Multimedia Digital Repository,” With Mark Kornbluh and Michael Fegan, European Community/NSF All Projects Concertation, Rome, 2002.

“esATI and MSU Technology Workshop,” workshop for community Internet trainers, Durban, South Africa, July 22-26, 2002. with Michael Fegan.

“Creating Sound Archive,” presentation for Faculty and Archivists at University of

Durban-Westville, July 29, 2002. with Michael Fegan.

“Metadata, Digitizing, and Sound Archives,” presentation to Faculty and Staff at University of Witwatersrand and National Archives Film and Video Division, August 2, 2002. with Michael Fegan.

“The Internet and Women’s Democratic Organizing: Promoting Civil Society and Democratic Networking in West Africa,” Workshop for women scholars, politicians, and activists from West Africa, East Lansing, MI, May 2002.

“Digital Libraries of Spoken Documents,” Invited instructor at DELOS 2002 Summer School, Pisa, Italy, J July 8-12, 2002.annual With Scott Pennington.

“Technology in the Humanities Classroom,” Invited Presentation for Faculty at Pacific Lutheran University, June 23-25, 2002.

“Web Site Usability and Assessment,” and “Expanding Classroom Boundaries with Interactive Technologies” two workshops for University of Puget Sound faculty members, Teaching-with Technology Summer Workshop Funded by the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation, June 24-28, 2002.

“Creating the National Gallery of the Spoken Word Online,” First Meeting in the Series of EU/NSF Digital Libraries All Projects Meetings, Rome, Italy, March 25, 2002. With Mark Kornbluh and Michael Fegan.

“Simulations for Social Reasoning: Helping Students Understand the Complexity Behind Social Decisions.” Ed-Media 2001 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Tampere, Finland, June 25-30, 2001.

“Issues of Access and the West African Digital Library Project Internet,” Research 2.0: Second International Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, Minneapolis, MN, October 10-14, 2001.

“The Problems of Being Free: Redesigning a Distributed Learning Course for Graduate Students.” Computers and Writing 2001: A Cyber Odyessy, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, May 17-20, 2001.

“Murdock Technology Initiative Humanities Development Workshop,” workshop for faculty members from the Independent Colleges of Washington, Seattle, Washington, July 16-20, 2001.

“Inside the Matrix: Social Epistemic Rhetoric, Computers, and Composition,” Evolution, Revolution, and Implementation: Computers and Writing for Global Change, Fort Worth, Texas, May 25-28, 2000.

“South African National Cultural Heritage Training and Technology Program,” Workshop for South African Museum and Archive Scholars, East Lansing, MI, July 2000.

HBCU Faculty Development Network Web Site Consulting, Workshop for HBCU FDN Officials, East Lansing, MI, June 2-4, 2000.

“The Internet and Women’s Democratic Organizing: Promoting Civil Society and Democratic Networking in West Africa,” Workshop for women scholars and activists from West Africa, East Lansing, MI, May 6-27, 2000.

“Teaching With Technology in American Studies,” Twentieth-Century Matters: History, Memory, and American Culture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (October 1999).

“The Research Station: Online Research Help for Students,” League for Innovation, Miami, FL (November 1998).

Invited Guest Presentation: Humanities Computing. Oakland Community College. Royal Oak, MI ( December 11, 1998).

“When Fact is Stranger than Fiction: A Critique of Historical Fiction through Film and Popular Text,” Roundtable Discussion Leader. American Culture Association Annual Conference. (April 1998).

Invited Presentation: “Teaching with Technology and the Internet.” Lily Presentation.

East Lansing, MI (October 1998).

“The Tropics of Terror: The Turn of Composition to Cultural Studies,” CCCC Annual Convention, Chicago, IL (March 1998).

“Raintree County Lines,” American Literature Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA (May 1998).

“The Virtual Garden in the Machine: Cyberspace and U.S. Nationalism.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. (October 1997).

“Fathers in the Stream; or, the Limits of Historical Homologies.” American Literature Association, Baltimore, Maryland (May 1997).

“Nationalism and the Internet.” MSU Fall Festival of the American Arts and National Conference, East Lansing, Michigan (November 1996).

“Cyber-Colonies and Hyper-Frontiers: U.S. Nationalism and the Internet.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Kansas City, Kansas (October 1996).

“On the Big Game Trail: Hemingway’s Rewriting of Roosevelt’s African Adventures,” International Hemingway Conference, Sun Valley, Idaho ( July 1996).

“Creating Hypermedia for the Internet,” Computers and Writing Conference, Logan, Utah

(May 1996).

“Using the Internet in the Classroom,” East Central Writing Center Association Conference, East Lansing, MI (March 1996).

“Historical Fictions: Notes Toward a Theory of a Genre,” American Culture Association National Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada (March 1996).

“Hamlin Garland’s Adventures West of the Middle Border,” Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, St. Louis, Missouri (November 1995).

“Interactive Hypermedia in Writing Courses,” Computers and Writing Conference, El Paso, Texas (May 1995).

“Disney’s Civil War,” American Culture Association, National Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (April 1995).

“Making the National House: Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher,” Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois (November 1994).

“Hallowed Ground: The Rhetoric of Civil War Battlefield Preservation,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee (October 1994).

“Vulgar Fiction, Impure History: The Neglect of Historical Fiction,” Midwest American Culture Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (October 1994).

“Negotiating Authority for Writing Centers,” East Central Writing Center Association Conference, Toledo, Ohio (May 1994).

“MacKinlay Kantor’s Civil War,” Conference of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, East Lansing, Michigan (May 1994).

“Revising the American Studies Student as ‘Tourist'” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts (November 1993).

“‘A More Perfect Union’: Fiction and the American Civil War.” Midwest American Culture Association, East Lansing, Michigan (October 1993).

“‘Different Degrees of Despair’: The Civil War Stories of Ambrose Bierce,” American Literature Association Annual Convention, Baltimore, Maryland (May 1993).

“Finding the Middle Border: Hamlin Garland’s Version of the Nation,” Conference of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, East Lansing, Michigan (May 1993).

“Blurred Boundaries and the Desire for Nationalism in Ross Lockridge’s Raintree County, Part II,” American Culture Association, National Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana (March 1993)

“Blurred Boundaries and the Desire for Nationalism in Ross Lockridge’s Raintree County, Part I,” Midwest American Culture Association, Indianapolis, Indiana (October 1992).

“Negative Distinctions: Popular Fiction and Literature,” Popular Culture Association, Special Conference in Honor of Ray Browne Entitled, “The Future of Popular Culture Studies in the Twenty-First Century,” Bowling Green, Ohio (June 1992).

“Middle-Class Nightmares and the Structure of Stephen King’s It,” Popular Culture Association, National Convention, Louisville, Kentucky (March 1992).

“Romantic Nationalism and the Historical Novels of Scott and Cooper,” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Tempe, Arizona (October, 1991). (Voted best paper of the session).

“Historical Fiction, Nationalism, and the Frontier: The Writings of Owen Wister, Theodore Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill,” Rocky Mountain American Studies Association, Denver, Colorado (April 1991).

“The Anglo-Saxon West: Owen Wister’s The Virginian and Winston Churchill’s The Crossing.” Western Literature Association, Denton, Texas (October 1990).

“Hegemony and the Popular Novel: A Reading of Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage.” Rocky Mountain American Studies Association, Colorado Springs, Colorado (April 1990).

“Ernest Hemingway’s Evolution of a Cowpuncher.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Las Vegas, Nevada (October, 1989).

“‘I Don’t Know Buffalo Bill’; or, Hemingway and the Western.” Hemingway in Idaho Conference, Boise and Sun Valley, Idaho (June, 1989).

“The Making of Classic Rock.” Rocky Mountain American Studies Association, Laramie, Wyoming (April, 1989).

“Kenneth Burke and Antonio Gramsci: The Rhetoric of the Symbolic Act.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Las Cruces, New Mexico (October, 1988).

“Emerging Power and the Plain Style; or, Sputnik’s Composition.” Wyoming Conference on English, Laramie, Wyoming (June, 1988).

“Visions of the New Mexican in the Plays of Santa Fe and Taos, 1918-1940.” Rocky Mountain American Society for Aesthetics, Santa Fe, New Mexico (June, 1987).

“Mystery as Authority: A Revision of Discourse Theory in the Classroom. “Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Spokane, Washington (October, 1987).

“An Overview of PAPEL: A Practical Heuristic for the Classroom.” Panel Discussion Entitled, “The Teacher, the Text, the Classroom: Issues of Empowerment,” given at the Wyoming Conference on English, Laramie, Wyoming (June, 1987).

“Reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Les Belle Lettres Literary Club, Salt Lake City, Utah (March 1991).

Invited Participant

Rehberger, Dean, Roundtable: Primary Source Gaps (Radio Journalism), Radio Preservation Task Force

Seminar, Washington DC, November 2-4, 2017.

Mentor Participant, PEAS-Accra, African Studies Review Editorial Collective, University of Ghana, Sccra,

Ghana, October 11, 2017.

African Diaspora, Harriet Tubman Institute, York University, Toronto, CA, July 20-21, 2016

Humanities Collaborations and Research Practices Summit, Illini Center, Chicago, IL, October 24, 2016

Future of Digital Humanities, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York City, New York, November 1, 2016

Conference on Assessing Instructional Simulations of Social Decisions. Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, October 26-29, 2000. Invited Participant.

Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis, Conference at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington D.C., December 1-2, 2000. Invited participant.

Hosted Meetings and Conferences

BTAA Digital Humanities Summit, MSU Leaning HUB, Michigan State University, March 18-19, 2017

Add Hastac and 2 slavery conferences

Will to Adorn meeting for Museum Professionals, sponsored by Smithsonian Center For Folklife & Cultural Heritage, LEADR, East Lansing MI, April 1-2, 2017.

Slave Data Project Planning I, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York City, NY February 14-16, 2017.

Slave Data Project Planning II, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York City, NY May 9-10, 2017.

Public Philosophy Journal Retreat, Kellogg Biological Station, With Christopher Long, MI, May 16-17. 2017

Workshops

Rehberger, Dean, “Digital Web Presence Workshop,” African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 28 – December 2, 2018.

Rehberger, Dean, “Web Presence and Podcasting Pre-Conference Workshop,” African Studies Association, Chicago Ill, November 15-19, 2017.

Getting Started with Data, Tools, and Platforms, Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching

(http://www.dhtraining.org/hilt2016/), June 13-16, 2016

Taking Oral Histories One Step Further, Historical Society of Michigan, Lansing, MI, November 4, 2016

“Ethical Project Management for Digital Projects in Africa, a Professional Development Workshop,” African Studies Association, Washington, D.C., December 1-3, 2016,

Digital Story Telling, Will to Adorn meeting for Museum Professionals, sponsored by Smithsonian Center For Folklife & Cultural Heritage, LEADR, East Lansing MI, April 1, 2017.

Working with Data, Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, Harriet Tubman Institute, York University, Toronto, CA, June 10-12, 2017

“There is an App for That: Museums and Mobil Applications.” August 6, 2014. Association of African American Museums. Birmingham, Alabama (Workshop)

“Murdock Technology Initiative Humanities Assessment Workshop, at Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, Washington, February 22 – 23, 2002.

“(Re)envisioning the Classroom in the Digital Age,” Workshop/presentation for faculty members at Wheelock College, Boston, MA (November 1999).

“African Internet Connectivity Project 1999,” Workshop for scholars from South Africa and Zambia, East Lansing, MI, July 6-23, 1999.

“Humanities Technology Workshops,” Durban, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Zululand, South Africa (May 1999).

Activities

MediaMatrix Demonstration. OpenEducation, Logan, Utah, September 26-28, 2007.

Presented at SC07 Summer workshop. Computing in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, San Diego Supercomputer Center, San Diego, CA, July 29-August 4, 2007.

Oral History in the Digital World. Conducted Master class with Michael Fegan. International Oral History Association Conference, Sydney, AU, July 12-16, 2006.

Using and Understanding Digital Audio in the Classroom. Conduct workshop. Computers &Writing 2006, May 25-28, 2006.

“Path to the Present: A Model Program to Improve and Support Teaching American History in Michigan.” Okemos Teaching American History Grant. Conducted workshop sessions. Okemos, MI. June 2005, 2006, 2007.

METS: Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard. Working Group on Tech Metadata

Standards: Video, Audio, Images and Text. Matrix has collaborated with the Library of Congress, Harvard, Berkley, California Digital Library, University of Virginia, NYU, and MIT in the development of the METS schema.

African Internet Connectivity Project (matrix.msu.edu/connect/). Coordinate and develop

internet workshops for scholars, educators, activists, NGO directors, and heritage

workers from South and West Africa).

“Delos Summer School: Sound Digitizing Workshop” Instructor for workshop for 47 students

from 14 different countries. Pisa, Italy, July 8-12, 2002.

“Web Site Usability and Assessment ,” and “Expanding Classroom Boundaries with Interactive Technologies” two workshops for University of Puget Sound faculty members, Teaching-with Technology Summer Workshop Funded by the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation, June 24-28, 2002.

“Murdock Technology Initiative Humanities Assessment Workshop, at Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, Washington, February 22 – 23, 2002.

“Technology in the Humanities Classroom,” Invited lecture for Faculty at Pacific Lutheran University, June 23-25, 2002.

“Murdock Technology Initiative Humanities Development Workshop,” workshop for faculty members from the Independent Colleges of Washington, Seattle, Washington, July 16-20, 2001.

Conference on Assessing Instructional Simulations of Social Decisions. Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, October 26-29, 2000. Invited Participant.

Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis, Conference at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington D.C., December 1-2, 2000. Invited participant.

“South African National Cultural Heritage Training and Technology Program,” Workshop for South African Museum and Archive Scholars, East Lansing, MI, July 2000.

HBCU Faculty Development Network Web Site Consulting, Workshop for HBCU FDN Officials, East Lansing, MI, June 2-4, 2000.

“(Re)envisioning the Classroom in the Digital Age,” Workshop/presentation for faculty members at Wheelock College, Boston, MA (November 1999).

Invited Guest Presentation: Humanities Computing. Oakland Community College. Royal Oak, MI (December 11, 1998).

“African Internet Connectivity Project 1999,” Workshop for scholars from South Africa and

Zambia, East Lansing, MI, July 6-23, 1999.

“Humanities Technology Workshops,” Durban, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Zululand, South Africa (May 1999).

Invited Presentation:”Teaching with Technology and the Internet.” Lily Presentation.

East Lansing, MI (October 1998).