Visualizations created by me
Borrowings in the U.S. Navy Regulations, 1802: With my collaborator, I set out to identify all the regulations in the U.S. Navy Regulations of 1802 that had been borrowed from either previous American regulations, or, more interestingly, from the British Navy’s Regulations and Instructions.
Encounters in the Quasi-War: I mapped every encounter I could find between American merchant ships and French privateers or naval vessels during the Quasi-War.
Ship Movements of the First Barbary War: As a supplement to my dissertation, I mapped the location of American naval vessels during the First Barbary War. [currently offline]
Mapping William Eaton’s Journey: I mashed up a map of William Eaton’s march across the Libyan desert with his journal entries for each day of the march.
DH projects I’ve worked on
Tropy: Open-source software designed to help researchers organize and describe their research photos (co-PI)
Viral Texts: A large-scale scholarly text analysis project, investigating how texts spread and change as they travel in the nineteenth century (research assistant, co-author of several published articles)
- Love Letter: An amusing newspaper piece that lightheartedly illustrates many of the ways in which texts traveled in the nineteenth century
All the Appalachian Trails: A website including an interactive map of all the changing routes of the Appalachian Trail over the course of its 100-year history (in the planning stages), with Mills Kelly