{"id":2396,"date":"2018-07-28T07:01:39","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T11:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/anelise-h-shrout\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T16:07:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:07:50","slug":"anelise-h-shrout","status":"publish","type":"faculty-profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/anelise-h-shrout\/","title":{"rendered":"Anelise H. Shrout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I explore the intertwined relationships between history and data. My book, <em>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<p>I&#8217;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<p>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<p>On BlueSky: <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/anelisehshrout.bsky.social\">@anelisehshrout.bsky.social<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1098,"featured_media":4468,"template":"","class_list":["post-2396","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","expertise-data","expertise-digital-and-computational-studies","expertise-digital-humanities","expertise-gender-studies","expertise-history","expertise-specific-cliometrics","expertise-specific-critical-race-theory","expertise-specific-death","expertise-specific-disasters","expertise-specific-famine","expertise-specific-gender-and-technology","expertise-specific-immigration","expertise-specific-ireland","expertise-specific-philanthropy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/2396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/2396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6952,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/2396\/revisions\/6952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}