b. NEH Grant: technical expertise<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Global Passages: Creating a Public Database of Slaving Voyages across the Indian Ocean and Asia: https:\/\/securegrants.neh.gov\/publicquery\/main.aspx?f=1&gn=MN-290193-23<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Current essay & computational humanities project (Code: https:\/\/github.com\/johnMulligan\/riley<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2021, as the Humanities Computing Researcher\/Facilitator in Rice’s Center for Research Computing, my colleagues and I have maintained and upgrade SlaveVoyages.org<\/a>. Highlights from our work include:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Interactive dashboards for exploratory data analysis started in 2020. These containerized data visualization applications allow users to see CDC\/NCHS data from new perspectives, in order to gain deeper insights into the broader impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on American mortality.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to the useful, interactive data visualization applications that I have designed, built, and written about, I have collaborated with software and mechanical engineers in building complex interfaces that guide users to reflect on the value of interactivity, as well as built such projects on my own. Are we expecting too much of these interfaces? How could our use of them be more creative of knowledge and meaning if we changed those expectations? Our articles on these subjects have been published in top-tier journals.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Much of my published work is multi-author; collaborative work enables more creative interdisciplinary inquiry, and the sciences’ laboratory model of credit-sharing, for all its problems of hierarchy, has much to recommend it over the humanities’ privileging of single-author works. Many of the papers below were published in direct conversation with digital projects listed above; some, such as my solo article on Chardin, were written as a direct consequence of a digital project and publication; still others, such as my work on Blake’s <\/em>Newton (1805), are good, old-fashioned humanities research articles.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Preprint, February 2023: Goldman, Fulk, et al., “Microbial sensor variation across biogeochemical conditions in the terrestrial deep subsurface” https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2023.02.01.526704v1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n “Computation and Interpretation in Literary Studies,” Critical Inquiry<\/em> (University of Chicago Press), Autumn 2021. https:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/doi\/10.1086\/715982<\/a> (and associated dataset: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.25611\/kk2a-8888<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Chardin and Vesalius’ Inhuman Interiorities,” Notes & Queries<\/em> (Oxford University Press), December 2020. http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/notesj\/gjaa141<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mulligan, ed. (2020) \u201cHurricane Harvey,\u201d Green Theory and Praxis, 13:1. \u201cThe Herschels\u2019 Knowledge Discovery: Exploring the Aesthetics of Big Data through the History of Astronomy,\u201d Leonardo <\/em>(MIT Press), August 2019. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1162\/leon_a_01832<\/a> (and associated dataset: \u201cDigital\nHumanities Application Development in the Cloud,\u201d Proceedings: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing\n(PEARC), 2019<\/em>. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3355738.3355753<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCorporate Medical Cultures: MD Anderson as a\nCase Study in American Corporate Medical Values,\u201d Medical Humanities<\/em> (The British Medical Journal), June 2019. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/medhum-2018-011556<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Electronic Vesalius: Embodying Anatomy\nAtlases,\u201d Leonardo<\/em> (MIT Press), February 2019. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1162\/leon_a_01700<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBlake\u2019s\nUse of Geometry in Newton (1805),\u201d Notes\nand Queries<\/em> (Oxford University Press), April 2016. http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/notesj\/gjw044<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Review: Dancing with Disaster<\/em>, by Kate Rigby. Nineteenth-Century Contexts<\/em>, March 2016. http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/08905495.2016.1160467<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Center for Research Computing<\/a>, Rice University, 2017-present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Humanities Research Center, 2015-2019; English Department, 2014-2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n English Department, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n English Department, Brown University, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ph.D. Department of English, Brown\nUniversity, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Focus:<\/em>\n Romantic-era British literature,\naesthetic theory, the history of science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n B.A. Bates College, Lewiston, Maine,\n2006, Summa cum laude<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Major:<\/em> \n English, honors thesis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Minor:<\/em>\n Mathematics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Eureka Award<\/a>, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Project Lead, \u201cThe Public Humanities, Post-Harvey Think Tank<\/a>,\u201d Rice Humanities Research Center, 2018-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fellow, Cloud Support Engineer, Pervasive\nTechnology Institute<\/a>, Indiana University and the Microsoft Corporation,\n2019 ($14,000 plus use of Azure cloud resources).<\/p>\n\n\n\n P.I.: Resilient Networks for Inclusive\nDH, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2018. Co-P.I.: Leadership Initiative Award,\nRice\u2019s Doerr Institute, 2017. \u201cMedical\nLeadership for Healthy Communities<\/a>\u201d ($12,000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n P.I.: Faculty Research Fellowship, Rice\nHumanities Research Center (HRC), 2016. Dissertation Fellowships, Brown\nUniversity, 2012-14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Romantic Experiment: The Second Scientific\nRevolution and 19th-century English Literature<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chair:<\/em> William Keach (English)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Readers: <\/em>Marc Redfield (English), Jacques Khalip (English)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Translational Humanities for Public Health<\/a> and the Health Humanities Syllabus Repository<\/a>. P.I. Kirsten Ostherr. Database-backed sites providing access to a knowledge base in health humanities scholarship & pedagogy for the advancement of the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SlaveVoyages.org<\/a>. P.I. Daniel Domingues da Silva<\/a>. Rice University is the current host of SlaveVoyages. We are working on a flexible SlaveVoyages API<\/a> to enable creative uses of the dataset, and were recently awarded an NEH\/AHRC grant to make the underlying primary source documents relating to the South Seas Company digitally available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Critical Archive of Latin American\nCinema<\/em> (CALAC. Site internal to Rice). P.I.: Luis\nDuno-Gottberg<\/a>. Custom Drupal site for creating a structured database of\nformal devices used in independent Latin American films. Also aided in the\nwriting of a successful (2019) grant for future developments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nReservation<\/em><\/a>. P.I. Brian\nRiedel<\/a>. Custom map of historical property ownership data in Houston\u2019s\nfourth ward (2018-present).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Between Oceans and Continents<\/em><\/a> and Visualizing Abolition<\/em><\/a>. P.I. Daniel Domingues da Silva<\/a>. Custom data visualization websites for for 19th<\/sup>-century slave registry archives in Mozambique and 19th<\/sup>-century British slave abolition archives (2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cInterpassive Digital Media.\u201d Critical\nPlatform Studies Seminar, HRC, Rice, March 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIntroduction to Supercomputing.\u201d Data\n& Donuts Series, Fondren Library, Rice, October 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNetwork Diagrams and Ridiculograms.\u201d\nGuest lecture on digital humanities for \u201cThe Social Lives of Buildings\u201d course,\nRice, March 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTurning the Screw.\u201d Guest lecture on\nHenry James and unreliable narration for \u201cA Brief History of Madness\u201d course,\nRice, March 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTwo\nuses of automated and user-generated network graphs.\u201d Guest lecture on digital\nhumanities for \u201cIntroduction to Computing for Humanities & Social Sciences\u201d\ncourse, Brown University, April 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe aesthetics of Google Earth.\u201d Guest\nlecture on digital mapping media for \u201cUninhabitable Worlds\u201d course, Rhode\nIsland School of Design (RISD), May 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAstronomy and timekeeping, from the transit of Venus to the Herschels\u2019 catalogues.\u201d Invited lecture for Brown University\u2019s Astronomy Department\u2019s Transit of Venus lecture series<\/a>; April and May 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the milky way,” Cosmic Harmonies<\/a>, York Festival of Ideas, June, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n New Views of William Herschel (1738-1822), American Astronomical Society, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cRomantic Data: Knowledge Discovery in the Herschel Archive,\u201d North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), Chicago, IL, August 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAesthesis\nand M\u0101thesis in Romantic Abstraction,\u201d North American Society for the Study of\nRomanticism (NASSR), Brown University, Providence, RI, June 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cRomantic\nAbstraction: Blake After \u2018Newton After Blake\u2019,\u201d NASSR, UCAL Berkeley, August\n2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cInformational and Intellectual\nProperties,\u201d American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Panel, New\nYork, April 2014. Co-organizer, moderator, and participant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cRichard Proctor\u2019s Sense of Scientific\nDuty and the 1874 Transit of Venus,\u201d Northeast Victorian Studies Association\n(NVSA), Boston, April 2013. presentation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cVisuality and Spatiality in Blake and\nKant: A Reconsideration of Romantic Science and Romantic Aesthetic,\u201d American\nComparative Literature Association (ACLA), Providence, April 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThomas De Quincey\u2019s Extravagant\nUtility,\u201d NASSR, Ottawa, Ontario, August 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCredits,\nRights, and Wordsworthian Writing,\u201d North American Society for the Study of\nRomanticism (NASSR), Manitoba, August 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThomas\nDe Quincey\u2019s Literary Economies,\u201d ACLA, New York, March 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cColeridge,\nBront\u00eb, and the \u2018Despotism of the Eye\u2019: Intensive Consciousness in Romantic\nLiterature,\u201d ACLA, New Orleans, April 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMiddle-Distant Reading: Big Data Meets\nBig Humanities Scholarship,\u201d Rice Data Science Conference, Houston, TX, October\n2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDigital Humanities Application\nIncubation in the Cloud,\u201d Practice and Experience in Advanced Research\nComputing (PEARC), Chicago, IL, August 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAlgorithmic Politics,\u201d Panel Respondent.\nWestern Political Science Association (WPSA), San Diego, CA, April 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDigital Facsimiles: The \u2018Electronic\nVesalius\u2019 and Archival Remediation,\u201d Digital Frontiers Conference, Rice\nUniversity, September 2016. presentation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAmerican Medicine\u2019s Corporate Past and\nCorporate Future,\u201d Future of Healthcare Symposium, Texas A&M, College\nStation, April 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\nc. Bridget Riley’s Real Abstractions<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
II. Digital Humanities Projects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
a. SlaveVoyages.org<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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c. Interpassive Media, Critical Code Studies, and Radical Media Archaeology<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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https:\/\/doi.org\/10.25611\/7EE9-RW96<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\nIV. Custom, interactive humanities data visualizations for:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Humanities Research Computing<\/strong>, Rice University<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Lecturer, Rice\nUniversity<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Lecturer, University\nof Rhode Island<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Composition\nInstructor<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
VI. Education<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
VII. Awards<\/strong> & Leadership<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\n\u201cThe Herschel Machine<\/a>\u201d\n($5,000 plus student salary support).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\u201cElectronic\nVesalius<\/a>\u201d project ($4,000 plus student salary support).<\/p>\n\n\n\nVIII. Dissertation<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
IX. Digital Humanities <\/strong>Project Facilitation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
X. Invited Lectures<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
XI. Selected Talks<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
a. Aesthetic Theory and the History of Science<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nb. Literary History<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
c. Digital Humanities<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
d. Medical Humanities<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n