My research output takes four primary forms, from which I draw to articulate the individual elements of six major research projects:
- digital-tool and historical-method design with a variety of partners.
- Net.Create
- the digital-exhibit toolkit that anchors Community Archive Digital Projects
- other digital-tool development under the auspices of Design-Based History Research
- analytical digital-history projects in collaboration with other historians using my digital tools and methods.
- MMATCH
- Text-based publications rooted in digital-tool design or digital public history (e.g. Sutton & Craig, DHQ 2022)
- digital public engagement projects in collaboration with academic and non-academic communities using digital tools and methods.
- History Harvests like Remembering Freedom, some of which are built on the Community Archive Toolkit
- Global Middle Ages Pilgrimage
- digital-humanities capacity-building and scholarly-communications research that explores how to better incorporate digital tools and methods into the academy.
Major Research Projects
Each of the digital-history forms above, represented to varying measures in the six projects below, integrates digital-history tool design and methods development with various collaborators that extend the impact of my work to other subfields within history as well as beyond the field of history. The project overviews below:
- start with a project goal and note any external funding
- outline the research products that constitute (or accompany, in the case of documentation and installation guides) the main digital-history tool
- note peer-reviewed publications and conference proceedings as well as general conference presentations and other activities
View the grants and grant proposals that have supported this work
Net.Create
Net.Create is an open-source network-analysis tool that offers simultaneous multi-user network-data entry, accommodates duplicate and ambiguous network data, provides live visualizations of up-to-the-minute entries from other team members, and is... (read more...)
Community Archive Digital Projects
My digital-tool design work for community archiving and digital exhibits speaks to a need to support archiving projects in a minimal-computing environment that requires limited expertise and money to set... (read more...)
Mixed Method Approaches to Collaborative History (MMATCH)
Mixed Method Approaches to Collaborative History (MMATCH) is a mixed-methods approach that started with my own work in computational text analysis and has developed into a collaboration process that emphasizes... (read more...)
Digital Humanities Capacity-Building Research
This strand of research draws on journey-mapping and digital-pedagogy research to understand which approaches to faculty and graduate-student digital arts and humanities training are most effective. (read more...)
Digital-History Scholarship of Teaching and learning
Published scholarship on how students learn history through digital methods, and how students learn digital methods in the classroom, has shaped some of my DBHR practices by providing different audiences... (read more...)
Global Middle Ages Pilgrimage
The Global Middle Ages Pilgrimage matches pilgrimages from all over the globe undertaken between 500 and 1500 and maps them onto locations at IUB that serve a similar purpose. (read more...)
