I am a first-year doctoral student in the History of Art and Architecture department. My primary fields of study are medieval art and architecture, medievalism, and the history of collections. In my current research, I am interested in George Grey Barnard (1863–1938), who was an American sculptor and collector of medieval art. In considering Barnard and his relationships with various institutions to which he hoped to sell objects from his collections, I am interested also in the broader historical and scholarly contexts of American medievalism, public perceptions of medieval art and notions of the medieval past, and the relationship between medieval and modern.

I enrolled in this seminar in part because I feel I have limited experience with digital methods. My experience has primarily consisted of using digital libraries and databases in the course of research, though I have also worked with collection databases as well as fundraising, donor, and member management software in museum settings. My goals for this seminar include learning and thinking critically about methods of producing, storing, and accessing information and knowledge, including but not limited to digital searches, databases, citations, and mapping. Much of my current research is based on archival material (correspondence, magazines, photographs, etc.), so I would be particularly interested in methods of managing the information I have gathered related to this material, such as my notes regarding a given document’s location in its archive and photographs I have taken or scans I have made of letters, press clippings, etc.