Scott B. Weingart

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Scott B. Weingart
Alma mater Indiana University Bloomington
Occupation(s)Scholar, administrator
TitleChief Data Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities
AwardsPaul Fortier Prize in Digital Humanities (2011)
Academic career
Discipline History of Science
Digital Humanities
Institutions National 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)
Website http://scottbot.net

Scott B. Weingart is an American scholar and director of the Office of Data and Evaluation at the National Endowment for the Humanities, a position he has held since 2023. [1]

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Academic career

Weingart graduated from the University of Florida in 2009 with a Bachelor's degree in the history of science and a minor in computer engineering. He then worked as a research assistant at the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University until 2015, when he became director of digital humanities programs at Carnegie Mellon University (2015–2021) and the University of Notre Dame (2021–2022). [2] [3] [4] Weingart also held elected positions in the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. [1]

In December 2020, Cambridge University Press published The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities, a book Weingart co-authored that shows how arts and humanities scholars have approached network visualization, social network theory, and quantitative methods drawn from network science. [5] [6] The book is in about 400 academic libraries and was the subject of two special journal issues. [6] [5] [7] [8]

In 2022 he co-authored the textbook The Historian's Macroscope: Exploring Big Historical Data, published by World Scientific Press. [9] [10]

In 2023 he became the founding director of the Office of Data and Evaluation at the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities. [1]

Recognition

In 2011, the 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. [11] For the 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. [12]

Selected publications

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  2. ↑ "Scott Weingart to lead Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship at Notre Dame" (Press release). Hesburgh Libraries. 2021-05-06. Retrieved 2024-01-18.
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  4. ↑ "Scott Weingart Joins Carnegie Mellon as Digital Humanities Specialist" (Press release). Carnegie Mellon University News. 2015-02-05. Retrieved 2024-01-18.
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  9. ↑ 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.
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