About This Project

Alicia Svenson

I am an architect and a student in the MA in Public History program at Northeastern University. Prior to starting the MA program I worked as a preservation specialist for architectural design and historic preservation consulting firms in New York and Boston, where I learned to appreciate stone in all its forms. This research project was designed as a final project for Northeastern’s Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities.

Project Acknowledgements

So many people helped me with this project!

Northeastern University

Thank you to Julia Flanders and Sarah Connell who ran the Digital Humanities Project Seminar where this project was conceived and who provided advice, encouragement, and assistance throughout its design; Amanda Rust at the Digital Scholarship Group who agreed to be the faculty sponsor for my HathiTrust research application; Cameron Blevins who encouraged me to learn Python in his Introduction to Digital Humanities course; Laura Nelson who gave me a solid background in Python and terrific feedback on parts of this project when I worked with this dataset in her Analyzing Complex Digitized Data class; Janet Morrow, Resource and Discovery Services at Snell Library, who worked on the University’s agreement with Google on my behalf; Ernesto Valencia, Library Technology Services, who figured out the technical side of obtaining and storing the data from Hathitrust; Ryan Cordell and Sari Altschuler who provided faculty feedback on the final draft of my project; and to my classmates in the Digital Humanities Project Seminar who were always ready to listen to my project updates and provide advice.

HathiTrust

Thank you to Ryan Dubnicek for answering all my questions about the research proposal and for setting up access for the text files.

Also

In addition I’d like to thank Matthew Friese for his help with my statistics and math questions and Sally Svenson for being a critical reader (and proofreader) of the website content.