Participant Info
- First Name
- Megan
- Last Name
- Brett
- Country
- United States
- State
- 46
- megan.brett@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Website URL
- http://meganrbrett.net/
- Keywords
- family strategies, early republic, digital humanities, digital history, national identity
- Availability
- 1
- 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 an experienced public historian and digital humanist. From 2014 through 2002, I was the Digital History Associate at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. My work with RRCHNM ranged from technical planning and project management through content creation and sometimes outreach. Projects which I managed included the award-winning Histories of the National Mall website and the Papers of the War Department community transcription project. I served as the End User Outreach Coordinator for the Omeka web publishing platform for seven years, in which capacity I wrote user manuals, conducted accessibility audits, and developed and conducted training workshops.
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
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- British Isles, United Kingdom, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 4, 5
- Expertise by Topic
- American Founding Era, Computational, Family, Public History
