Then and Now
July 15 is Tax Day, the day that most income tax returns are due. The nationwide extension from the normal date of April 15 is, from what I can tell, unprecedented. A state or region celebrating a holiday or hit by disaster occasionally get an … [Continue reading] about The Birth and Death of a Quirky Tax Exemption
As many of you know, over the past year, I have been directing an NEH/Mellon Humanities Open Book Grant to digitize 52 volumes from the backlist of Brown Judaic Studies. I have written about the project here, here, and here. The project will draw … [Continue reading] about BJS Open Book White Paper
Over the past year I have been managing a project, with support from an NEH/Mellon Humanities Open Book grant, to digitize and make open-access fifty-one older books in the Brown Judaic Studies (BJS) series. I published my first book, Tasting the … [Continue reading] about Open Access: Tasting the Dish
I am now wrapping up my graduate class on "Introduction to the Digital Humanities," which I taught for the first time. Judging from the conversations and presentations we had, in and out of class, and the quality of student work that is just … [Continue reading] about Wrapping Up: Introduction to Digital Humanities
In the midst of a global pandemic that is causing tens of thousands of deaths, ravaging the most vulnerable of us, and bringing millions to the brink of economic catastrophe, college students throughout the country are worrying about their grades. … [Continue reading] about Grading in the Age of COVID-19