May 27, 2010
Welcome!
This is the central site for Dr. Jeffrey W. McClurken, Chair and Associate Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Mary Washington.
My book: Take Care of the Living, published by UVA Press in 2009
My class blogs:
- HIST471C3–Adventures in Digital History–Spring 2010
- FSEM100–TED.com–Ideas Worth Sharing–Fall 2009 (co-taught with Tim O’Donnell)
- HIST325–History of American Technology and Culture–Spring 2009
[And the final product of the class, an exhibit of their work: History of American Technology....] - FSEM100RR–When Americans Came Marching Home–Fall 2008
HIST329–US History in Film–Fall 2008 - HIST471C3 — Adventures in Digital History–Spring 2008
- FSEM100RR — When Americans Came Marching Home–Fall 2007
HIST299 — Introduction to the Study of History–Fall 2007
My Online Presence:
- Techist — My personal blog about teaching, history, and technology.
- Chronicle of a Pseudo-DIY — My experimental blog about my experiments with “building” stuff.
- Prof. Hacker — I’m a contributor to this group blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education on pedagogy and productivity in higher education.
- Digital Campus — I’m an occasional guest (an “Irregular”) on this podcast about digital technology and its impact on campus life. (See episodes 44, 53, and 57)
- DH Now — I’m a “founding passive editor” of this Digital Humanities information filtering project started by Dan Cohen.
- jmcclurken — My Twitter feed for comments on Digital Humanities, history, teaching, and technology
- wheresthechair — My Twitter feed for my office hours and presence on campus [UMWers, please request a follow]
My department’s static site [And our department blog & information resource.]
My Presentations
- Banner Lecture, Virginia Historical Society, “Take Care of the Living: Reconstructing Confederate Veteran Families in Virginia,” June 2010 [Audio only]
- UMW’s Teaching Excellence Series Presentation, “Teaching and Learning with New Media,” April 2010 [Links]
- Presentation to Honor Convocation, 2008
I’ve also been an active participant in planning of the Virginia Forum, an annual meeting of historians, geographers, literary scholars, historic preservationists, archivists, and librarians: http://virginiaforum.org/
My campus Flickr photostream:
