Courses

Dickinson College

Anthropology of the Information Society (ANT245). Department of Anthropology. This course explored such topics as surveillance, privacy, and virtual community in the age of ubiquitous networked computing from an anthropological and ethnographic perspective. Fall 2007.
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Princeton University

The Anthropology of Information Technology (ANT345). Department of Anthropology. This course explored the complex history between anthropology and information technology, investigating the computer as core metaphor for the concept of culture, marginalized research tool for the analysis of ethnographic data, hip methodology for corporate software development, and central artifact in the investigation of postmodern culture. Students kept blogs. Fall 2004.
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Old French Paleography and Electronic Technologies (FRE707). Department of French and Italian. Co-taught with Sarah-Jane Murray. This course explored the relationship between nineteenth-century philological theory, medieval textuality, and various techniques of representing text digitally, including XML and relational data models. Focus was on the research interests of the graduate students taking the course. Fall 2002.

Art History and Technology (FRS113 and FRS163). Department of Art History. Co-taught with Kirk Alexander and John Pinto. This course explored Roman and art and archaeology from the perspective of database design and use. Students read texts relating to Roman art history, art historical theory, and database theory, and pursued a number of hands-on exercises pertaining to the nature of classification. Students produced a complete data record for a Roman building or work of art in Almagest, Princeton’s home grown media database for teaching and learning, and gave a presentation of their work at the end of the course. Fall 1999 and Fall 2001.
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