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Essays on Digital Classics and Digital Humanities

ShareTweet Gregory Crane Professor of Classics and Winnick Family Chair of Technology and Entrepreneurship Tufts University Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Digital Humanities Open Access Officer University of Leipzig Comments to gcrane2008@gmail.com This link points a list and short summary … Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on July 28, 2015
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“Privashing” vs. publishing — in search of an accurate term for a problematic academic tradition

This is a short piece reflecting on the need to distinguish publication that actually maximizes the degree to which we make academic work public from the traditional practice of handing control over to commercial, often for-profit, companies that make money by restricting publication. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on July 28, 2015
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Revision to “The Big Humanities, National Identity and the Digital Humanities in Germany”

ShareTweet I have integrated a number of comments and clarifications from my colleagues in Dariah-DE and TextGrid in revising “The Big Humanities, National Identity and the Digital Humanities in Germany” — a good deal more has gone into making Dariah-DE … Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on July 20, 2015
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The Work of Classical Studies in a Digital Age

Who is the audience for the work that we professional researchers conduct on Greco-Roman culture? Frequently heard remarks, observed practices and published survey results indicate most of us still assume that only specialists and revenue-generating students really matter. If the public outside of academia does not have access to up-to-date data about the Greco-Roman world, whose problem is it? Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on July 20, 2015
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Greek, Latin, and Digital Philology in Germany and the United States (part 2):

I have now released a draft for part 2 of Greek, Latin, and Digital Philology in the United States. This part includes some information about Greco-Romans studies in the US, with some comparisons with the situation in Germany, and then moves on with a very brief and preliminary start for suggestions as how Germany can make itself an (even more) attractive location for a research career in this field. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on July 14, 2015
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Greek, Latin, and Digital Philology in Germany and the United States

The essay has a very particular point of view: as an Alexander von Humboldt Professor in Germany, my job is to help make Germany as attractive a center for research as possible. I thus begin by exploring the use that my American colleagues make of German Greco-Roman scholarship. The paper published so far is primarily descriptive, invites comment and seeks to lay partial groundwork for further analysis and possible suggestions. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on July 6, 2015
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Where did holders of German Chairs in Greek, Latin, Ancient History and Classical Archaeology get their PhDs?

As a by-product to a larger study of Greco-Roman studies in Germany and the United States, I have published some figures on where faculty from ranked PhD-granting departments got their PhDs. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on June 28, 2015
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Update: Where did faculty in US Classics Departments with top-ranked graduate programs get their own PhDs?

On June 11, we published a discussion of the programs from which the top ten departments in a particular ranking of Classics PhD programs chose their faculty. We here publish an analysis based on all thirty-one departments in that ranking. We have sorted the results based upon numbers of assistant professors — this reflects activity over the past decade or so (if we consider both the PhD training itself and the period that assistant professors have served). Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on June 26, 2015
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Where did faculty in US Classics Departments with top-ranked graduate programs get their own PhDs?

Programs would do well to pay close attention to the ways in which the new graduate program at the Institute for Study of the Ancient World had begun developing a broader view of the ancient world and including new digital methodologies in the research that they support [.] Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on June 11, 2015
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