Digital Humanities Forum
A forum on the past, present, and future of digital humanities research at the University of Chicago and around the world.
Our Next Forum
April 29, 12-2:00pm CST
The Digital Transgender Archive
K.J. Rawson, Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Northeastern University
In this presentaton, Dr. K.J. Rawson (he/him/his) will discuss his work founding and directing the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) and serving as the co-chair of the Homosaurus: An International LGBTQ+ Linked Data Vocabulary. The DTA is an an open-access, primary source digital archive that Rawson created to address the barriers that researchers face when conducting historical research on transgender topics. This presentation will discuss those barriers and the new possibilities for historical discovery that digital archives like the DTA can open up for researchers. Dr. Rawson will also introduce the Homosaurus and the queer worldmaking possibilities of linked data vocabularies.
This session will be virtual; please register here. If you need any additional accommodations to participate in the Forum, please contact Carmen Caswell (caswellc@uchicago.edu).