AHA Session 231
Medieval Academy of America 3
Medieval Academy of America 3
Saturday, January 9, 2027: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Napoleon Ballroom B3 (Sheraton New Orleans, 3rd Floor)
Chair:
Kalani Craig, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Panel:
Henry Gruber, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jakub J. Kabala, Davidson College
Anne McClanan, Portland State University
Lynn Ramey, Vanderbilt University
Jakub J. Kabala, Davidson College
Anne McClanan, Portland State University
Lynn Ramey, Vanderbilt University
Session Abstract
Digital history is an ever-changing field that has found its way into the historian’s practice at fits and starts over the past few decades. For several reasons, many early practitioners of digital history were medievalists, in part because access to medieval primary sources is often restricted and digitization therefore quickly became a priority, but also as a result of the dramatic distance between pre-modern contexts and those of modern historians writing academic history. This panel will ask how historians who use digital methods see themselves changing not just the discipline of history but reshaping the technology we use both for historical analysis and for communicating with the general public. By looking at the ecosystems of the academy and how technology fits into our daily work in a variety of academic environments, our roundtable will present creative approaches to using existing technologies alongside the potential historians have to reshape the technology we use. We’ll look at the questions digital historians ask, the ways we use technology to work with the public and with students, and how we narrate our work to historians and technologists, with our lessons drawn from pre-modern historical perspectives that have value for historians in all subfields and time periods.
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