iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Dr. Jen Andrella @jenandrella.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Suggestions needed! We’re looking to convert a classroom into a digital innovation lab (for class instruction and to host a digital gallery for project launches). I’d greatly appreciate any photos, links, or articles of DH labs, centers, studios, etc. or if you have a space like this on your campus!

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Dr. Jen Andrella @jenandrella.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

It’s Content Management Systems week in my intro to digital humanities course, which means that the only appropriate opener to today’s class is: “Archives…. Am I right??”

media.tenor.com

a brown dog is sitting in the back seat of a car looking out the window .

ALT: a brown dog is sitting in the back seat of a car looking out the window .

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Dr. Jen Andrella @jenandrella.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I know “A Century of Lawmaking” has been out of commission for a little while now, but I absolutely cannot stand the migration to congress.gov. It’s excruciating to search historical collections. I just want to browse the 1862 Congressional Globe 😢

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The students in Museums, Monuments, and Memory this term identified alumni scrapbooks in Special Collections, researched the stories inside them, and produced podcasts on them! All in ten weeks. You can sample their work at scrapsoftime.knoxabolitionlab.org

scrapsoftime.knoxabolitionlab.org

The Scraps of Time Podasts – A Collaborative History Exhibition

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Dr. Jen Andrella @jenandrella.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I’m thrilled to share that I will be joining The University of Southern Mississippi as an Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and History starting fall 2025! I’m very grateful for the opportunity to continue my work at the intersection of history and digital scholarship 💛

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Dr. Jen Andrella @jenandrella.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Celebrating #DouglassDay in the Abolition Lab at Knox today! We had a great time transcribing and tuning into the virtual programming! And of course, there were plenty of snacks 🎊🥳🎊

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Dr. Jen Andrella @jenandrella.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Another day, another Storymap JS tutorial #Abolitionlab

Laptop screen displaying storymap Js homepage. Background is a classroom

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Dr. John R. Legg @legg.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

To my new followers in history departments: My contingent position at Minnesota State University wraps up this term. I’m actively on the job market for a full-time role, but in the meantime, I'm seeking an online teaching opportunity (synchronous/asynchronous) for the spring. www.johnlegg.org

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Dr. John R. Legg currently teaches the American Civil War at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Trained in ethnohistory and digital public history, John specializes in the Civil War era and nineteen...

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Dr. Jen Andrella @jenandrella.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Now that it’s official, I’m thrilled to announce that my first book _When the War Raged On: Montana Territory, Native Nations, and the Struggle over Reconstruction in the West_ is under contract with University of Nebraska Press!

Photo of Jen posing with the contract on her laptop screen

Black and white text document on the publishing contract

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Dr. Jen Andrella @jenandrella.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

Our spring classes start this Wednesday and I’ll be teaching HIST 181: Intro to Native history. I finally have my digital syllabus/class website together, and I greatly look forward to meeting the students! hist181.jenniferandrella.com

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Dr. Jen Andrella @jenandrella.bsky.social · 21/03/2024

Heading to MSU for the in-person portion of the Global Digital Humanities Symposium! Looking forward to a productive weekend of learning and engaging with DH, and catching up with old friends and colleagues! #msudh #MSUGlobalDH

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Dr. Jen Andrella @jenandrella.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

Back in LEADR at MSU, we had a very analog way of scheduling lab hours: everyone had a pile of squares and would place them in available time slots. I’ve passed on this method to the Abolition Lab and, no joke, we solve the scheduling dilemma in 5 minutes every time. 10/10 would recommend.

White paper with a weekly schedule in blue divided into one-hour time blocks from 10am to 3pm. Gold, purple, blue, and green paper squares fill the time blocks on the page.

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Dr. Jen Andrella @jenandrella.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

It’s amazing to see all that we’ve accomplished in the Abolition Lab at Knox as another term wraps up. We now have weekly lab hours and a full website. I firmly believe that this lab will be a model for the future of digital humanities at liberal arts colleges 💜 knoxabolitionlab.org

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The Abolition for All Time Humanities Lab

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Dr. Jen Andrella @jenandrella.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

I had a wonderful time presenting at the Western History Association in Los Angeles last week. Our roundtable focused on new directions in digital Western history, and I got to share some recent developments on Mapping the Upper Missouri: www.mappingtheuppermissouri.com/map.html #WHA2023

Jen speaking at the podium with fellow panelists seated at a table with a dark tablecloth.

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Dr. Jen Andrella @jenandrella.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

On September 22, 2023, I married my best friend. Today we received our wedding photos and I’m going to cherish them forever ❤️ @legg.bsky.social

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Dr. Jen Andrella @jenandrella.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

This week’s developments in and around the lab: some lovely banners, soundproofing foam in the recording studio, and a light box! We’re also working with four classes on DH projects this term. So excited for our small but growing digital humanities community on campus. #DHatKnox

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Dr. Jen Andrella @jenandrella.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Hello 👋🏻 I’m Jen, currently a postdoctoral fellow in digital Humanities at Knox College. In 2022, I graduated with a Ph.D. in history from Michigan State. My current book project explores how the politics and policies of Reconstruction intersected with territorial expansion in the West

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