Current Work
Mrs. Emma B. Andrews
Emma B. Andrews is best remembered for her association with the millionaire lawyer turned archaeologist/art and antiquities collector, Theodore M. Davis. Traveling to Egypt with him between 1889 and 1912, she kept detailed journals of these voyages along the Nile, including his important yet under-reported excavations of 20 significant tombs in the Valley of the […]
Emmapedia
One of the goals of the Emma B. Andrews project is to re-create Emma’s network of correspondents and her social circle on a digital platform. Working collaboratively with student interns, I have been been researching biographical information about the individuals Emma interacts with and describes in her diaries, and the preliminary results are displayed in […]
Digital Humanities Internships
Newbook Digital Texts is an innovative digital humanities publishing house re-imagining and restructuring traditional academic research, publication, and education. Over six years, more than 100 University of Washington undergraduate interns and several graduate assistants have collaborated with faculty on projects ranging from Ottoman and Georgian poetry to nineteenth-century travel journals from Iraq and Egypt. We […]
‘Golden Age’ of Egyptian Archaeology
My initial work with Emma Andrews’ diaries has expanded to include archival material for institutional and private collections in the US and Europe related to egyptology in the so-called ‘Golden Age’ at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. The aim of this work is to create a digital repository of […]
Visualizing the Past
What to do with all the data we have collected? We are able to display the results of our historical research in innovative digital ways, including interactive maps, data visualizations and interactive timelines. This work is open source and freely available, and we hope that it will offer an opportunity to extend and enhance the […]