Scott B. Weingart

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Scott B. Weingart
Occupation(s)Scholar, Administrator
TitleChief Data Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities
AwardsPaul Fortier Prize in Digital Humanities (2011)
Academic background
Alma materIndiana University
Academic work
DisciplineHistory of Science
Digital Humanities
InstitutionsNational Endowment for the Humanities
University of Notre Dame
Carnegie Mellon University
Notable worksThe Network Turn (2020)
The Historian's Macroscope: Exploring Big Historical Data (2022)
Websitehttp://scottbot.net

Scott B. Weingart is an American scholar and administrator. He is the Chief Data Officer and directs the Office of Data and Evaluation at the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Work and academic career[edit]

Weingart works in History of Science and Digital Humanities, adapting computational and digital methods to cultural problems.[1][2] He is a "leading scholar in the field of historical network research" whose work "made a significant contribution to the formation and development of the computational humanities and social sciences."[3][4][5]

Before joining the National Endowment for the Humanities, Weingart directed initiatives at the intersection of technology and the humanities at Carnegie Mellon University (2015-2021) and the University of Notre Dame (2021-2022).[1][6][7] Weingart also held elected positions in the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations.[2]

The Historian's Macroscope: Exploring Big Historical Data (World Scientific Press 2022), which Weingart co-authored with Shawn Graham, Ian Milligan, and Kim Martin, is a frequently-assigned textbook introducing big data to humanities scholars.[8][9][10]

In The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities (Cambridge University Press 2020), Ruth Ahnert, Sebastian Ahnert, Catherine Coleman, and Weingart show how arts and humanities scholars have approached network visualization, social network theory, and quantitative methods drawn from network science.[11] It is an "important [...] text for those seeking to adopt network science tools for cultural data" that makes "a real contribution to the study of networks."[3][11] The Network Turn was the subject of two special journal issues and is held by nearly 400 academic libraries.[3][11][12][13]

Awards and honors[edit]

In 2011, the international Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations awarded Weingart and his co-author Jeana Jorgensen the Paul Fortier Prize in Digital Humanities for their work on gender and the body in European fairy tales.[14] For their Latin American Comics Archive, Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas [es] awarded Weingart and his colleagues Felipe Gómez, Daniel Evans, and Rikk Mulligan the 'Mejor iniciativa formativa' (best formative initiative) award in 2018.[15]

Selected publications[edit]

  • Graham, Shawn; Milligan, Ian; Weingart, Scott; Martin, Kimberly (2022). The Historian's Macroscope: Exploring Big Historical Data. New Jersey: World Scientific Press. ISBN 978-9811243035. OCLC 1269422323.
  • Ahnert, Ruth; Ahnert, Sebastian E.; Coleman, Catherine Nicole; Weingart, Scott (2020). The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities. Canbridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108866804. OCLC 1231561650.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Scott Weingart to lead Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship at Notre Dame" (Press release). Hesburgh Libraries. 2021-05-06. Retrieved 2024-01-18.
  2. ^ a b "NEH Appoints Scott B. Weingart to Lead the Agency's New Office of Data and Evaluation" (Press release). National Endowment for the Humanities. 2023-01-18. Retrieved 2024-01-18.
  3. ^ a b c Thomas Wallnig, Giovanna Ceserani, and Tomasso Venturini (2022-02-01). "About "The Network Turn"". Quaderni storici. 170 (2). doi:10.1408/106841.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ James O'Sullivan (2023-04-01). "Note from the Editor". Computers & Culture (1). Retrieved 2024-01-18.
  5. ^ Dinara Gagarina (2023-01-01). "Data and Knowledge Modelling as the Methodological Foundation of the Digital Humanities". Disegno: Journal of Design Culture. 7 (1). doi:10.21096/disegno_2023_1dg.
  6. ^ "Ph.D. Candidate Helps Rethink Graduate Education in the Humanities". The Chronicle of Higher Education. 2015-03-16. Retrieved 2024-01-18.
  7. ^ "Scott Weingart Joins Carnegie Mellon as Digital Humanities Specialist" (Press release). Carnegie Mellon University News. 2015-02-05. Retrieved 2024-01-18.
  8. ^ Chad Gaffield (2018-05-01). "Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian's Macroscope by Shawn Graham, Ian Milligan, and Scott Weingart (review)". Histoire sociale / Social History. 51 (103). doi:10.1353/his.2018.0011.
  9. ^ J. Rodzvilla (2016-07-01). "Exploring big historical data: the historian's macroscope". CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. 53 (11). doi:10.5860/CHOICE.196916.
  10. ^ "WorldCat The Historian's Macroscope". Retrieved 2024-01-18.
  11. ^ a b c Kathryn Eccles (2021-12-11). "3Digital Humanities". The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. 29 (1). doi:10.1093/ywcct/mbab014.
  12. ^ "Special Issue: Literary Theory and the Network Turn". Journal of Literary Theory. 17 (2). 2023-08-16.
  13. ^ "WorldCat The Network Turn". Retrieved 2024-01-18.
  14. ^ "Paul Fortier Prize Recipients". Retrieved 2024-01-18.
  15. ^ "Resolución premios HDH2018" (PDF). Retrieved 2024-01-18.
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