Rafael Acosta (University of Kansas) grew up grilling under the shade of the Río Bravo’s pecan trees. His current research projects involve the political and…
Doug Seefeldt is Associate Professor of History at Clemson University. He is a digital historian with teaching and research interests that focus on the intersections…
Mike Sanders is Senior Lecturer (19th Century Writing) at the University of Manchester (U.K.). His main research interests are the relationship between culture and politics…
Jordan Bratt is the Digital Scholarship Strategist in Bracken Library at Ball State University. He has a background in geography, American history, and digital humanities.…
Melanie Walsh is a Postdoctoral Associate and Visiting Lecturer in Information Science at Cornell University. Her research uses computational methods to study culture, literary history, reception,…
Professor Robin Burke is Professor and Chair of the Department of Information Science at University of Colorado, Boulder where he conducts research in personalized information…
Alex Leslie received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University. His dissertation, “Reading Regions: American Literature and Cultural Geography, 1865-1925,” shows how extensive regional differences in circulation…
Alex Leslie Rutgers University Readers are idiosyncratic. Recent work with library data has underscored this fact more than ever, but it has also drawn attention…
James J. Connolly is George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of History and Director of the Center for Middletown Studies at Ball State University. He…
FRANK FELSENSTEIN The paper utilizes What Middletown Read, an NEH-funded database, as a medium to track socio-economic patterns of popular readership during the 1890s, America’s so-called Gilded Age. The 175,000 borrowing records of the Muncie Public Library in Indiana, the main source of the…