Dr. Sarah Ketchley - Digitorium 2019 Plenary Session I
Channel: University of Alabama Libraries
Date: 2019-10-11

Dr. Sarah Ketchley is a lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Washington. Her current research and teaching interests include the history of the ‘Golden Age’ Egyptology at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She has developed and taught introductory-level courses in Digital Humanities for undergraduate and graduate students. In 2012, Ketchley co-founded Newbook Digital Texts, an innovative digital humanities publishing house re-imagining and restructuring traditional academic research, publication, and education. Newbook’s flourishing internship program offers students the unique opportunity to work with primary source material, to transcribe and encode texts, and to create digital maps and visualizations.