Douglas O'Reagan: "Next Stage Planning for the Digital Humanities at MIT"

Published: Sept. 30, 2016, midnight

b'As a Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at MIT, Douglas O\\u2019Reagan will study how the digital humanities can best aid the specific strengths, mission, and broader community around MIT. In this talk, O\\u2019Reagan updates the audience on his efforts and invite suggestions and ideas concerning the future of digital humanities at MIT.\\n\\nO\\u2019Reagan completed his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley in May 2014. His dissertation was a comparative history of the Allied powers\\u2019 attempts to study and copy German science and technology during and after the Second World War. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Fung Institute of Engineering Leadership in UC Berkeley\\u2019s College of Engineering from 2014-2015, where he worked with an interdisciplinary team on applying data science, econometric analysis, and historical research in studying the origins and impacts of specific breakthrough technologies. In 2015 he became a visiting assistant professor at Washington State University\\u2019s Tri-Cities campus, where he taught history and served as Lead Archivist and Director of the Oral History Program for the Hanford History Project, which manages the US Department of Energy\\u2019s collections related to the Hanford site of the Manhattan Project.'