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Libraries, Archives and Collective Grief (2026) will be released with Bristol University Press. This volume explores the ways in which grief permeates collections, objects and stories within library settings. @kpalex91.bsky.social

The volume that @librarianchef.bsky.social and I have been working on since like 2022, 'Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning: Past and Present', is being published on Dec 1st, 2025! Just in time for Christmas! Thank you to all the wonderful authors!! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Spinel...

As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that. So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more. Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort! bit.ly/ach-anthology

Great gathering this morning for an in-depth look at how we in #Utah do Open Access research and publishing! #oaweek #openaccess

📣 The RDAP Summit call for proposals is now open! This year’s theme is “Practical, Personalized, Impactful: Research Data in the Real World.” Summit Dates: Apr. 13-16 Proposal Deadline: Nov. 14 Submit a Proposal: forms.gle/AiSWSTxVcyFA... More Info: rdapassociation.org/summit

Check out this new article—"The Invisible Default: Examining Representation in Digital Collections"—that Dorothy Terry, Jasmine S. Kirby, @racheljwittmann.bsky.social, and @annaneat.bsky.social just published in ITAL! ital.corejournals.org/index.php/it...

Tune in to #NISOPlus25 on September 16 at 3pm ET to hear more about what the MaRMAT team has been up to! @racheljwittmann.bsky.social @annaneat.bsky.social

It's finally happening!! The edited volume that @librarianchef.bsky.social & I have been working on with so many amazing researchers is finally available for Preorder with @berghahnbooks.bsky.social! I'm so proud!! #amwriting #archaeology #deathstudies www.berghahnbooks.com/title/spinel...

It’s been awesome to work with @graveyardarch.bsky.social and @librarianchef.bsky.social to get a sneak peak at some new work included in their collection! Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning: Past and Present is now available for preorder! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/spinellideath

🎙️Plan for a coffin train I mention on @deathstudiespod.bsky.social! This would have transported corpses ~30 km from Paris to Méry-sur-Oise, where Haussmann planned to build a 5k-acre Necropolis (that’s roughly 45x the size of Père-Lachaise!) to accommodate Paris’s dead for the next 600 years 🚂⚰️

Always a pleasure to nerd out over cemeteries and data!

New blog post for Flatpage!

In light of the news on my first day of sabbatical: gender is a social construct, trans women are women, no amount of complying with authoritarians who pretend they will only strip some people but not you of rights will keep you safe. And in 2025 university administrators should know all of that.

Thanks for documenting us, @annaneat.bsky.social!

Come check out MaRMAT at #ALAAC25!

We're presenting in just a few minutes as part of the Metadata Interest Group program on Assessing Metadata for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Cultural Heritage Institutions cdmcd.co/LE4qmd #ALAAC25 @kpalex91.bsky.social @racheljwittmann.bsky.social

Stopped in my tracks by this sign pointing out the IMLS absence from #ALAAC25

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New issue published! **Memory over Forgetting: Monuments, Memorials, and Intangible Heritage** - www.radicalhistoryreview.org/memory-over-...

Being a historian doesn’t give me the mantle of authority to say definitively what’s happening here or how anyone should respond, but I feel qualified to say this: If you were writing an account of how the United States devolved into violence and fragmentation, all this would be chapter 1 or 2.

PhD fellowship advertised here at the Center for Digital Narrative to research Computational Narrative Systems with @docmofo.bsky.social - applications due August 15! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

🪦 Thrilled to share that my chapter, “Le Champ du repos: A Tidy Approach to Early Epitaphs in Père-Lachaise Cemetery,” has been published in a new volume for Brill’s Intersections series, Funerary Inscriptions in Early Modern Europe: Shaping Identities to Remember. 🔗 doi.org/10.1163/9789...

Proud of SLC!

New CFP: What Do (Digital) Images Want? Join us in exploring a decade of data, power & visual knowledge! dahj.org/cfp/11

We celebrate 10 years of International Journal for Digital Art History (DAHJ)—connecting global voices & reshaping art history through digital methods, collaboration & critical debate. #DigitalArtHistory #DigitalHumanities #ArtHistory

I ran grant programs at @nehgov.bsky.social for over a decade. With colleagues, oversaw review of thousands of grant applications. Witnessed care & thoughtfulness of hundreds of reviewers. This statement is insulting to all of them. Whoever wrote it should be ashamed. www.neh.gov/news/update-...

They’re taking *our* investment—the money that we spent months writing grants for, the hours and hours we all spent reviewing each others’ work, the money that was supposed to go to libraries and community groups—and blowing it on this nonsense.

Looking forward to my first #ALAAnnual Conference this June! @racheljwittmann.bsky.social, @annaneat.bsky.social, and I will be sharing the new and improved MaRMAT, our open-source software for assessing collections metadata. Until then, check out MaRMAT (Beta) on GitHub: github.com/marriott-lib...!

Heading off to New Orleans tomorrow for the @pcaaca.bsky.social conference! If you’re going, make sure you catch me and @librarianchef.bsky.social on Friday evening as we share a sneak peek into our forthcoming volume, “Libraries, Archives, and Collective Grief” 📚💀 #pcaaca25

What can one coroner’s report tell us about gender, silence, and the historical framing of suicide? Dr. @sarahlirley.bsky.social dives deep into a 19th-century inquest that left more questions than answers. Read the full post here: radicaldeathstudies.squarespace.com/blog/suicide...

I'm still formulating my thoughts about the devastating impact of NEH ODH's closure on the entire digital humanities ecosystem. In the meantime, I threw together a couple bar charts to visualize the number of programs and the total funding at stake in the NEH cuts. #DigitalHumanities #NEH

“As the saying goes, our researchers and scientists stand on the shoulders of the giants who came before them. Libraries enable us to build on these previous foundations and see further into what’s possible.” www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...

So excited to have had the chance to include some of my new work in the volume. Can’t wait to see it in print!

“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding” Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure. We are all in this together, and we all go down together. I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.

Making my way down to St. George for #DHU9 at Utah Tech and looking forward to sharing some of what @racheljwittmann.bsky.social and I have been up to! @dhutah.bsky.social 👉 github.com/marriott-lib...

If you have no qualms about flying the Nazi flag for “educational purposes,” you have no business holding public office.

New Blog Post: Book Banning Harms Children — Here’s Why: letutahread.org/blog/banshar...

We've added a second screening of Banned Together: The Fight Against Censorship! Feb 20 at Provo Public Library at 7:00 pm. Admission is free, but registration is required. for more info see: letutahread.org/events/banne...

Here we go…

Let’s be clear. Trump’s overhaul of the Kennedy Center board and criticism of recent programs comes straight out of Hitler and Goebbels’s playbook. More people need to study art history. #ArtHistoryRepeatsItself #DragIsNotDegenerate

I have run out of patience with the apparent silence of most US science institutions (and not just US) in the face of Trump & Musk's rampage. There are of so many facets of that, but in this column for @chemistryworld.com I talk about the assaults on inclusion. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...

Ban on D.E.I. Language Sweeps Through the Sciences www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/s...

US military budget: $850 billion US National Institutes of Health indirect costs: $9 billion That they are so focused on cutting the budget of the latter says everything.

Register today for free pre-release screening of the documentary, Banned Together. Thurs, Feb 13 at 6:30 at Salt Lake City PL. www.fightforthefirst.org/events/free-...

I'm looking for disability activists to participate in an interview study (via Zoom) on end of life issues and accessing EoL care from the viewpoint of disabled people. You have to be over 18 years old, live in the United States, have a disability/be disabled, and identify as a disability activist.

My article “After Nadar: The Popularization of the Paris Catacombs in Print” has just been published in Dix-Neuf! Check it out for free here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VAWUS...