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Department of History
Assistant Professor Melissa Reynolds' presentation for the Medieval Academy of America’s Digital Humanities Showcase
Assistant Professor Melissa Reynolds recently gave a presentation as an invited panelist for one of the Medieval Academy of America’s Digital Humanities Showcase. She spoke alongside Nicholas Laiacona (Lead Developer, Performant Software) and Pamela Smith (Seth Low Professor of History, Columbia) about an open-access software the trio is developing (with funds from an NSF grant) to support the publication of digital editions of historical sources. (continue reading)
Recent Publications
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Of Plants and Providence: Assessing Drugs, Difference, and Divine Will in Timothy Bright’s The Sufficiencie of English Medicines (1580)
https://resolve.cambridge.org/core/journals/renaissance-quarterly
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Insurgent Beauty: Indigenous Art in Urban Panama
https://www.amazon.com/Insurgent-Beauty-Indigenous-Caribbean-Studies/dp/1496858875/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MSfSIV48Wd1Fxld72zv618wCSpH9mkB-bOqf7wUwUOgzcF-ToG7Q3ODWRxtFAPn8.0porP-CrfxpTg64und__8S1-_A8nw2jYJri8VUxr_tk&qid=1758738964&sr=1-2
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Terror's Triumph: The British Empire and the Origins of Modern Terrorism
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/terrors-triumph-9798881801960/
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A Potions Lesson: Experiential Learning in the History Classroom
https://www.texasobserver.org/the-heist/