CV

This project CV shares the prizes and grants Judaica DH has been honored to receive, the scholarly publications, and the invited, conference and community talks and workshops by our team members. You’ll also find press coverage. This is modeled after the Project Curriculum Vitae by Colored Conventions Project.

Scholarly Publications:

Journal Articles

• Esten, Emily. “Introduction: Scribes” Startwords 2, (2021).

• Esten, Emily. “Digital Second Edition of Judaica Americana: A Bibliography of Publications to 1900” Journal of Open Humanities Data 6, no. 4, (2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.15

• Esten, Emily. “Scribes, Scholars, & Scripts: Reviewing Data from Scribes of the Cairo Geniza.” Manuscript Studies: a Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies 5, no. 2, (2020).

• Eckstein, Laura Newman. “Of Scribes and Scripts: Citizen Science and the Cairo Geniza.” Manuscript Studies: a Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies 3, no. 1, (2018): 208-214.

Datasets

• Esten, Emily. “Dataset: Union List of Nineteenth-Century Jewish Serials Published in the United States”. May 2020. Distributed by Scholarly Commons. https://repository.upenn.edu/judaica_americana/3/

• Esten, Emily. “Dataset: Scribes of the Cairo Geniza, Sorting Phase, August 2017 - February 2019”. February 2020. Distributed by Scholarly Commons. https://repository.upenn.edu/cairogeniza/1/

• Esten, Emily. “Dataset: Judaica Americana: A Bibliography of Publications to 1900”. October 2019. Distributed by Scholarly Commons. https://repository.upenn.edu/judaica_americana/2/

Web

• Esten, E., & Blickhan, S. (2021). Scribes of the Cairo Geniza. Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook. https://doi.org/10.21428/51bee781.0afc1687

• Esten, E. (2021). Uncovering the Secrets of the Egyptian Geniza With Citizen Science. SciStarter. https://blog.scistarter.org/2021/06/uncovering-the-secrets-of-the-egyptian-geniza-with-citizen-science/

Presentations

Conference Presentations:

• Across the Zooniverse: Science and the Humanities • A Roundtable at Crowdsourcing and the Humanities: Roundtable Discussions Celebrating Scribes of the Cairo Geniza (Scribes of the Cairo Geniza; Princeton University//Virtual) • April 2021

• Working with Crowdsourced Textual Data • A Roundtable at Crowdsourcing and the Humanities: Roundtable Discussions Celebrating Scribes of the Cairo Geniza (Scribes of the Cairo Geniza; Princeton University//Virtual) • April 2021

• From the Technical Side: Responding to Researcher Needs • A Roundtable at Crowdsourcing and the Humanities: Roundtable Discussions Celebrating Scribes of the Cairo Geniza (Scribes of the Cairo Geniza; Princeton University//Virtual) • April 2021

• Platforms for People-Powered Research • A Roundtable at Crowdsourcing and the Humanities: Roundtable Discussions Celebrating Scribes of the Cairo Geniza (Scribes of the Cairo Geniza; Princeton University//Virtual) • April 2021

• Who are the #GenizaScribes? • A Roundtable at Crowdsourcing and the Humanities: Roundtable Discussions Celebrating Scribes of the Cairo Geniza (Scribes of the Cairo Geniza; Princeton University//Virtual) • April 2021

• Meet the Scribes of the Cairo Geniza Project Team • A Roundtable at Crowdsourcing and the Humanities: Roundtable Discussions Celebrating Scribes of the Cairo Geniza (Scribes of the Cairo Geniza; Princeton University//Virtual) • April 2021

• Collections as Data: The Role of DH in Curatorial Work • A Invited Speaker at The 4th Judaica Curators {Virtual} Conference (National Library of Israel; National Library of Israel//Virtual) • May 2021

• Building a Judaica DH Program • A Paper at #DHJewish - Jewish Studies in the Digital Age (Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH); University of Luxembourg//Virtual) • January 2021

• Scribes, Scholars, & Scripts: Creating a Digital Humanities Community Through Crowdsourcing (cancelled) • A Panel at DH 2020 (Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations; Ottawa, Ontario//Virtual) • July 2020

• Judaica Digital Humanities at the Penn Libraries Overview • A Panel at AJL 2020 (Association of Jewish Libraries; Evanston, IL//Virtual) • July 2020

• Interpreting Jewish History in Museums and Public History Settings • A Twitter Chat at NCPH 2020 (National Council for Public History; Atlanta, Georgia//Virtual) • March 2020

• Cultivating Community with the Cairo Geniza • A Lightning Talk at MCN 2019 (Museum Computer Network; San Diego, California) • November 2019

• Crowdsourcing Data: Scribes of the Cairo Geniza • A Talk at IT Staff Convention 2019 (Penn Information Systems & Computing; Philadelphia, PA) • June 2019

Community Presentations:

• “Adult Ed - Scribes of the Cairo Geniza Project” • Temple Adath Israel (Philadelphia, PA) • January 2020

• “Scribes of the Cairo Geniza” • Congregation Neveh Shalom (Portland, OR) • January 2019

Transcribe-a-thons:

• Columbia University Libraries • April 2020

• Princeton Geniza Lab • November 2019

Press and Reviews

Reviews

• Goldman, M. H. (2020). Review: Digital Second Edition of Judaica Americana. Reviews in Digital Humanities, I(11). https://doi.org/10.21428/3e88f64f.25620894

• Haynes, C. (2021). Review: Scribes of the Cairo Geniza. Reviews in Digital Humanities, II(1). https://doi.org/10.21428/3e88f64f.52b54957

Scribes of the Cairo Geniza Press:

• Alperin, Michele. “Do it yourself” New Jersey Jewish News, 27 November 2019. Web.

• Alperin, Michele. “Pitching in to unlock mysteries of Cairo Geniza.” New Jersey Jewish News, 27 November 2019. Web.

• Blickhan, Sam. “Scribes of the Cairo Geniza team publishes blog series reviewing Sorting data.” Daily Zooniverse, 28 March 2019. Web.

• Buongiorno, Caitlyn, Leslie Grove, and Andrew Salata. “Scribes of the Cairo Geniza.” In Into The Zooniverse: 2019, 1st ed., 37–37. Chicago, IL: Zooniverse - Adler Planetarium, 2019. http://bit.ly/zoonibook19-pdf.

• Chizhik-Goldschmidt, Avital. “This Amazing Project Invites The Public to Help Unlock Medieval Jewish Documents.” Forward, 11 August 2017. Web.

• Humanities for All. “A Typology of the Publicly Engaged Humanities.” National Humanities Alliance, 2018. Web.

• Leavens, Sara. “Penn Libraries Announces Crowd-Sourced Scholarship Endeavor, “Scribes of the Cairo Geniza”.” Penn Today, 11 August 2017. Web.

• Moeller, Eric. “The Cairo Geniza: Studying the ancients in the digital age.” The Daily of the University of Washington, 21 May 2019. Web.

• Schechter, Dave. “Opening Windows on Jewish Life Centuries Ago.” Atlanta Jewish Times, 5 October 2018. Web.

• Shepard, Louisa. “Reclaiming a fragmented history” Penn Today, 12 June 2018. Web.

• Stiteler, Gretchen. “Probing the ‘Time Capsule’ of the Cairo Geniza at Adath Israel, Synagogue”. Penn Libraries News, 11 February 2020. Web.

• Vilanova, Sara. “Penn Libraries’ Innovative Digital Humanities Collaboration, “Scribes of the Cairo Geniza,” Enters a New Phase”.” Penn Libraries News, 4 March 2019. Web.

• Yudelson, Larry. “Raiders of the Lost Geniza Want You!” Jewish Standard, 10 August 2017. Web.

Scribes of the Seder Press:

• Blumenthal, Itay. “Arabic in Hebrew Letters: A 1,000-year-old Haggadah from Cairo.” Ynet, 28 March 2018. Web. (Published in Hebrew)

• Israeli Portal for Agriculture and the Environment. “The Cairo Geniza Project presents: Passover Haggadah from the 11th century.” Agrisupportonline, 05 April 2018. Web.

• JNi.Media. “Cairo Genizah Project Reveals 11th Century Passover Haggadah.” JewishPress.com, 28 March 2018. Web.

• Schnessel, Silvia. “Egyptian Haggadh of the Eleventh Century Unearths Jewish Life in the Middle Ages.” enlacejudío, 30 March 2018. Web. (Published in Spanish)

Other Press:

• Penn Libraries Strategic Communications. ‘Judaica Digital Humanities Launches the Digital Second Edition of Judaica Americana’. Penn Libraries News, 30 June 2020. Web.

Honors and Awards:

MCN Scholar • 2019 • For Museum Computer Network Annual Conference