Participant Info
- First Name
- Megan
- Last Name
- Brett
- Country
- United States
- State
- VA Virginia
- megan.brett@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- George Mason University
- Website URL
- http://meganrbrett.net/
- Keywords
- family strategies, early republic, digital humanities, digital history, national identity
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a historian focusing on the Early American Republic (1780-1830), the long eighteenth century in the British Atlantic, material culture, and families as networks. I received my PhD in 2022 from George Mason University. My dissertation examined the intersection of family strategies and the formation of national identity for Americans abroad in the post revolutionary period, using the Maury family of Virginia and Liverpool as a case study.
I am a practicing digital public historian. Through my position as a Digital History Associate at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, I have contributed to content-focused projects such as the award-winning Histories of the National Mall, the Papers of the War Department digital collection & community transcription project, and the podcast Consolation Prize. I have developed and conducted training workshops for students, scholars, and creators at various skill levels, for digital humanities tools including Omeka and Tropy. I am currently working on the tool DataScribe and the projects Death by Numbers and Hearing the Americas.
I am committed to accessibility above and beyond the baseline of legal requirements. I am inspired by Roy Rosenzweig’s wish to “democratize the study of the past”.
- Recent Publications
With Mills Kelly and Jessica Otis. “Reframing the Conversation: Digital Humanities, Disabilities, and Accessibility.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. Minneapolis; London: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. (forthcoming)
“An Impressive Consul in Liverpool,” September 22, 2020, in Consolation Prize, produced by Abigail Mullen, podcast, 28:38, https://consolationprize.rrchnm.org/2020/09/22/episode-2-an-impressive-consul-in-liverpool/
With Miriam Posner. “Creating an Omeka Exhibit.” The Programming Historian. February 24, 2016. Last modified May 25, 2017. https://programminghistorian.org/lessons/creating-an-omeka-exhibit.
“Topic Modeling: A Basic Introduction.” Journal of Digital Humanities 2:1 (Winter 2012)
- Media Coverage
- magpie
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- British Isles, United Kingdom, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 18th century, 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Founding Era, Computational, Family, Public History
