October 21, 2025Engaging Students in Transcribing Historical Data: About the Project by Amanda Kleintop and Cora WiggerIn 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…
October 7, 2025Defining Data and Data Literacy, Step 1 by Amanda Laury Kleintop 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…
July 22, 2025Data Literacy in Engaged Learning: Understanding Biasby Amanda Kleintop and Cora WiggerOver 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…