Books
Digital Dissertations and Theses by ISBN: 9780857027399Publication Date: 2012-07-06"This handbook sets out the processes and products of ‘digital’ research. It is a theoretical and practical guide on how to undertake and navigate advanced research in the arts, humanities and social sciences." (from the abstract)
Format Guidelines for Digital Dissertations
- Digital Project Documentation GuidelinesFormat instructions for those submitting digital components in addition to a PDF text.
Digital Dissertation Case Studies
Amanda Visconti (Purdue University) has shared a collection of digital Dissertation Case Studies in her public Zotero library.
- Beyond the Dissertation as Proto-Monograph: Examples and ReflectionsThe first of two #Alt-Academy "clusters" collecting articles on expanding the concept of a dissertation. Includes an introduction to the series by Melissa Dalgleish and Daniell Powell, "What is This Thing We Call a Dissertation?"
- Beyond the Dissertation as Proto-Monograph: New Models for the Dissertation (Process and Experimentation)The second of a series of articles addressing the digital future of the dissertation. Includes contributions from the Graduate Center's #remixthediss panel, "What is a Dissertation? New Models, Methods, Media."
- Digital Dissertations and the Changing Nature of Doctoral Work (AHA)CelesteTường Vy Sharpe's recap of a 2019 AHA roundtable session on digital dissertations. (Perspectives on History | American Historical Association)
- The GC's First Digital Dissertation: Q&A with Jesse Merandy"Ph.D. student Jesse Merandy (English) will soon be completing the GC’s first entirely digital dissertation — a mobile game based on Walt Whitman." (365 Fifth)
- My Gothic Dissertation, by Anna Williams (University of Iowa)"the first-ever doctoral thesis to be produced in podcast form"
- They Need You! Disability, Visual Culture, and the Poster Child, 1945-1980, by Celeste SharpeThis dissertation white paper includes useful discussion of digital dissertations (the digital project itself is not publicly available).
- Women in Rock and Roll's First Wave, by Leah Tallen Branstetter (Case Western Reserve University)From the abstract: "I also survey current scholarship in feminist historiography to argue that digital technologies and publishing platforms offer new methods of changing the conversation about women in rock and roll. Through a kaleidoscopic array of archival materials and multimedia-enhanced analysis, a digital appendix to this dissertation (www.womeninrockproject.org) strives to place different counter-narratives about early rock and roll into dialogue with one another. "
Evaluating Digital Scholarship
Guidelines from Professional Associations
- AHA Guidelines for the Evaluation of Digital Scholarship in HistoryIncludes a PDF version of the June 2015 guidelines.
- Guidelines for the Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship by HistoriansJune 2015. Prepared by the American Historical Association.
- Guidelines for the Evaluation of Digital Scholarship in Art and Architectural HistoryJanuary 2016. College Art Association and the Society of Architectural Historians: Task Force to Develop Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Art and Architectural History for Promotion and Tenure
- MLA Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Scholarship2013. Prepared by the Modern Language Association.
Peer Review and T&P Guidelines
Dennis Tenen and Alex Gil (Columbia University) maintain a list of readings related to peer review of digital projects that may be helpful for your committee members:
Amanda Visconti (Purdue University) also shares a collection of links in her public Zotero library:
- DH Guidelines for Dissertations and Tenure (Zotero Library)