Tom Scheinfeldt

Professor

Digital Media & Design | Storrs

Professor, Digital Culture – Storrs

Education: D.Phil. Modern History, University of Oxford (England), 2003
M.Sc. History of Science, University of Oxford (England), 1999
A.B. History and Science, Harvard College, 1996

Areas of Research/Artistic Focus:Digital humanities, history of digital culture,history of science and technology,history of museums, public history,scholarly communication, software development

Tom Scheinfeldt is Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of Digital Media and Design at the University of Connecticut, where he also holds an affiliate appointment in the Department of History. Tom is Founding Director Emeritus of UConn’s Greenhouse Studios and a founding officer of the Corporation for Digital Scholarship, the not-for-profit home of Zotero, Omeka, Sourcery, and other core open-source computing infrastructure for academic research. Formerly Managing Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, Tom has directed several award-winning digital humanities projects, including The September 11 Digital Archive and THATCamp. Tom was educated at Harvard and Oxford and has written and lectured extensively about the history of digital culture, the history of science and technology, the history of museums, and the practice of public history. Tom is a contributor to Debates in Digital Humanities (University of Minnesota Press) and co-editor of Hacking the Academy (University of Michigan Press). Tom blogs at Found History (http://foundhistory.org). You can follow him in the usual places at @foundhistory.

Recent Research Achievements:Grants from: The National Endowment for the Humanities, U.S. Institute of Museums and Library Services, the Library of Congress, the National Archives, and the Sloan, Mellon, and Kress Foundations. Elected Member, American Antiquarian Society. Distinguished Speaker, Organization of American Historians.

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