Library Guides: Gale Digital Scholar Lab: Case Studies

Case Studies

Discover How Digital Humanities Tools Enrich Group Research: An Inside Look with Gale Digital Scholar Lab McGill University (5 pages)
Driving Departmental Change and Teaching Digital Humanities Courses with Gale Digital Scholar Lab University of Adelaide, Australia (8 pages)
Embracing the Spirit of Discovery at Fudan University with Gale Scholar and Gale Digital Scholar Lab Fudan University, China (5 pages)
Engaging Undergraduates in the Digital Humanities: Success Story University of Washington, USA (4 pages)

King Tut and Digital Humanities: A Pedagogical Case Study University of Washington, USA

Case Studies - Gale-American Society of Eighteenth Century Studies (Fellowships)

Discover How the Gale-ASECS Fellowships Helped Researchers Make New Discoveries with Data

Heather Heckman-McKenna (University of Missouri)
Heather Heckman-McKenna in her project Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Subversive Female Body says, “I am able to perform research that simply would not have been possible without the immediate access to data that the Lab allows.”
Dr. Adam Kozaczka (Texas A&M International University)
Dr. Adam Kozaczka in his research on the history of duelling in eighteenth-century Britain says, “The Lab is an early example of the next generation of Digital Humanities platforms that adds DH methodologies to every scholar’s toolbox.”
Jared Richman (Colorado College)
Jared Richman in his project Voicing Disability in Eighteenth-Century Print Culture says, “I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to access the Lab. As I noted, I am relatively new to digital humanist research and methodology, but I have been so pleased with discovering new approaches to research questions that have become central to aspects of my scholarship.”
Daniel Watkins (Baylor University)
Daniel Watkins in his research on the Jesuit missionary Lettres Édifiantes et Curieuses in eighteenth-century Britain, says “It was absolutely necessary that I use the Lab and ECCO to achieve my research goals.”
Sara Weston (Yale University)
Sara Weston in her research project examining eighteenth-century poetry and art through the lens of mathematics, The Shape of Numbers, 1701–1800, says, “I was surprised and impressed by the wide variety of tools I could use to (almost instantaneously) analyze OCR text acquired through ECCO.”

Case Studies - Committee on LGBT History (Gale Fellowships)

Discover How Researchers Made New Discoveries using the Lab with Archives of Sexuality and Gender Content

In 2022, Gale partnered with the Committee on LGBT History to fund fellowships for LGBT History scholars, providing them with access to Gale’s Archives of Sexuality and Gender and Gale Digital Scholar Lab for a period of six months. Read their reports to learn more.

Justin Salgado (The Ohio State University) Justin Salgado, in his research on the history of gay rodeos and queer rural communities, says, "The tools provided by the fellowship have ... created a more inclusive and diverse data set to analyze that is much more representative of the community that I am discussing in my work."
Jack Jen Gieseking (University of Kentucky) Jack Jen Gieseking, in their research on lesbian+ bars in the US, says, "The ability to search entire periodicals for patterns--let alone to find all the mentions of lesbian bars in the collection--saved me years of work. It felt like a triumph with every use."
Elio Colavito (University of Toronto) Elio Colavito, in their research project "Mapping Transtopia: Trans-Masculine Mutual Aid and Community Formation, 1960-2005," says "The Gale fellowship advanced my understanding of digital humanities research methods by introducing me to new data sorting and management tools."
Jacob Bloomfield (University of Konstanz, Germany) Jacob Bloomfield, in his research project "Tutti Frutti: Little Richard, Sex, Gender, and Transgression in America and Europe," says, "The ability to browse historical newspapers and periodicals was the most valuable feature offered by Gale's Archives of Sexuality and Gender. As gauging reception is a critical part of my research, the Lab's tools regarding that were valuable to me."