{"id":216,"date":"2018-09-05T17:47:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T17:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/?page_id=216"},"modified":"2021-09-01T21:32:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T21:32:03","slug":"anelise-shrout","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/digital-computational-studies\/faculty-staff\/anelise-shrout\/","title":{"rendered":"Shrout, Anelise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anelise H. Shrout<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Associate Professor of Digital and Computational Studies<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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I explore the intertwined relationships between history and data. My book, Aiding Ireland: The Great Famine and the Rise of Transnational Philanthropy f<\/em>ocuses on the nineteenth-century origins of international humanitarianism, and particularly the ways in which philanthropic donations were used as proxies for arguments about governance in the middle decades of the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n

I’m also working on a digital archiving project that explores the lives of immigrants who were medically incarcerated in New York in the nineteenth century. This project uses computational methods to understand the forces working on those immigrants, as well as the communities they were able to form within institutions.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m also interested in how the \u2018internet age\u2019 changes the way we interact with sources and with students \u2013 and in how the digital humanities shape what we do both as scholars and as teachers.<\/p>\n

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Cliometrics<\/a>, critical race theory<\/a>, Data<\/a>, death<\/a>, Digital and Computational Studies<\/a>, Digital Humanities<\/a>, Disasters<\/a>, Famine<\/a>, Gender and Technology<\/a>, gender studies<\/a>, history<\/a>, immigration<\/a>, Ireland<\/a>, Philanthropy<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t
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Fall Semester 2026<\/h4>
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Under the supervision of a faculty advisor, all majors write an extended essay that utilizes the methods of at least two disciplines. Students register for AMST 457 in the fall semester. Majors writing an honors thesis register for both AMST 457 and 458.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>

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Through a combination of analytical, experiential, and collaborative exercises, students merge traditional historical methods with digital tools to explore new useful methodologies for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating historical knowledge. They develop technical and theoretical proficiency w…<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>

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Who lives in that creepy house on the hill? What is the story behind that abandoned mansion? What happened to the people who used to live here? All houses have stories \u2013 of major political and social movements, of quiet and meaningful lives, and of everything in between. Together, we will use hist…<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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