HomeProgramsCEL Scholars Amanda Kleintop and Cora Wigger Share: Section NavigationSkip section navigationIn this sectionPrograms Home CEL Scholars CEL Senior Scholars CEL Student Scholars Publishing Intern Student Seminars Amanda Kleintop, assistant professor of history, and Cora Wigger, assistant professor of economics, are the 2025-2027 CEL Scholar (joint appointment). Together, they will focus on advancing data literacy in engaged learning and developing interdisciplinary resources to help faculty and students critically analyze and apply data across fields. The Pedagogy of Digital Humanities Ethics Statements This blog post shares our transcription project’s ethics statement and how we developed it by working with students as partners. The statement integrates the frameworks of digital slavery studies, library and information science and archives, as well as the ethics of work-integrated learning. About… Purpose-Driven Data My first career after college was as the Data Manager for a nonprofit in Kentucky that provided services to survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. As an overly ambitious 23-year-old, I was the inaugural holder of that title and… Where History and Economics Collide: Teaching on Redlining Though the use of data for analysis is often framed as a way of answering questions about the world, it also helps us come up with new questions, questions more aligned to the mysteries that drive us to ask questions in the first place. We (Amanda and Cora)… Teaching with Data and Care in the Digital Humanities Black Digital Humanities scholars have often grappled with the contradiction that digitizing slavery’s archives, in the words of historian Jessica Marie Johnson, “threatens to replicate the death work of the slave ship register,” re-enacting the commodification of the people whose lives and histories they… Historical Literacy as Data Literacy: An Intro to SOCC Analysis As a Civil War historian, I know the power of sharing primary sources with students to understand causality and intentionality in the past. For example, the former Chief Historian of the National Park Service has argued that few can read Confederate states’ declarations of… Defining and Measuring This semester, I’ve been working with two wonderful students doing mentored research projects of their own design. As they’ve been developing their research questions, I am reminded fondly of an exercise I did in a research methods class during grad school. The professor, Dr. Ellen Goldring,… Data Literacy as a Precursor to AI Literacy As the new school year begins and our weeks are filled with slide edits, planning meetings, and the smell of new notebooks, one theme is dominating the preparation: Artificial Intelligence. I am not an AI expert. I have no tips… Engaging Students in Transcribing Historical Data: About the Project In this post and a series of student contributions that follow, we describe a summer project where we engaged with students doing transcription work of historical archival documents. While the original conception of the project started off as purely oriented… Defining Data and Data Literacy, Step 1 When I, along with my CEL Scholar colleague Dr. Cora Wigger, describe our CEL project about data literacy and data justice to colleagues, we’re confronted with the same problem: every academic in every discipline defines “data” differently. As a historian… Learning Your Data: Teaching with Data Biographies “It’s not ethical to use a dataset without spending time getting a very good understanding of what the data means.” Heather Kraus When I started teaching an applied statistics class for undergraduates, I resolved to give my students as much… Data Literacy in Engaged Learning: Understanding Bias Over my career as a student and professor, I (Amanda) have come to learn, with the help of my colleague Dr. Cora Wigger that understanding bias in research is essential to understanding causes and perpetuation of racism. In my first…
