Description
Today our guest is Dr. Jeff Turner. Jeff, I’m going to share what I’ve prepared about you and then you’re welcome to fill in the gaps. So Jeff received his PhD in US history from the University of Utah. His expertise lies in digital humanities, American religious history, and migration. And his research traces the ways migration and immigration inspectors and policymakers construct religion at the US border in the late 19th century and early 20th centuries.
Professor Turner’s digital work spans a variety of digital humanities methods. He entered DH along with Grassroots Graduate Student Group at the University of Utah, who taught themselves to topic model and published an article together.
His subsequent experience came from wanting to understand the relationship between critical theory, and project building, and also a desire to pay the rent. So you’re very practical. He’s worked on public humanities projects such as the Century of Black Mormons, Native Places Atlas, and the Wilford Woodruff Papers Project. And he works in Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and a little bit of R in SQL.
Season: 5
Episode: 1
Date: 3/2025
Presenter: Jeffrey Turner
Topic: Religion at the American Boarder, early twentieth century
Tags: OCR; Machine Learning; History; Digital Humanities