Teaching at a small liberal arts college means that most of my digital humanities work focuses on the classroom. During the fall 2009 semester, both my Colonial Latin American History course and my Global History course built digital history exhibits using Omeka: Colonial Latin American Material Culture and Global History before 1000ce. Both of these [...]
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Katie Holt
Website: http://www.katherineholt.org
Twitter handle: HoltKatie
About:
"I am Assistant Professor of History at the College of Wooster. I teach courses on Latin American history, trans-Atlantic slavery, U.S./Latin American relations, and quantitative methods. I also contribute to our Latin American Studies minor. My research explores the history of gender and slavery in nineteenth-century Brazil. I am currently working on two main projects: a study of enslaved family formation in Santiago do Iguape, Bahia, and a comparative study of nineteenth-century domestic medical guides’ consideration of race and gender in Brazil and the southern United States.
My other interest is in digital history. I have a website where I share my research on the social history of nineteenth-century Santiago do Iguape, Bahia, Brazil. Santiago do Iguape was a center of Brazilian sugar production, and one of the centers of sugar plantation life in Brazil. The site includes a serachable database for the 1835 manuscript census, my research into the demographic and economic history of the region, and additional annotated primary source materials."