Jeffrey W. McClurken is Associate Professor and Chair of History and American Studies at the University of Mary Washington. His research areas include the history of veterans, families, gender, the Pinkertons, mental institutions, the 19th-Century American South, and the digital humanities.He teaches classes on US History topics including technology and culture, digital history, women’s history, history & film, and TED.com. His interest in the digital humanities began while programming his Commodore 64 using a cassette tape drive in the 1980s, but took off when he entered census data and HTML for the Valley of the Shadow project in the mid-1990s. He has been involved in digital pedagogy since making his students hand code HTML in the early 2000s. He blogs at Techist, tweets from @jmcclurken, and is a contributing author for the ProfHacker group blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education. Links to his scholarship, classes, and presentations can be found at http://mcclurken.org.
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