{"id":4036,"date":"2026-01-14T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/?p=4036"},"modified":"2026-01-14T18:28:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:28:39","slug":"dr-smiths-introduction-lab-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/2026\/01\/14\/dr-smiths-introduction-lab-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Smith&#8217;s Introduction (Lab 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hello! I&#8217;m Dr. Meg Smith. I&#8217;m a digital humanist and a historian of medieval and early modern Ireland. As a digital humanist, I&#8217;m interested in questions related to critical data studies &#8212; where our data comes from and where it goes. In my historical research, I study how medieval Irish people contested English rule through the legal system, the landscape, and their interactions with other people. (Those two research agendas are connected: In the bigger picture, I look at how people challenge the categories that are imposed on them, which makes encoding them in data sets very complicated!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At SIUE, I direct the IRIS Center, which is our digital humanities research center. IRIS is a great resource for this class &#8212; we offer office hours and project consultations, workshops and events, and equipment you can use or check out. The IRIS Center is in Peck 2226, and you can email iriscenter@siue.edu for a tour or to access any of our resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my spare time, I do a lot of making. Sometimes that&#8217;s digital making &#8212; building a website or a data visualization. Sometimes it&#8217;s physical making &#8212; making a quilt, a dress, or an embroidery. And sometimes, it&#8217;s both! I&#8217;m currently working on a data quilt that visualizes how people cross the Mississippi. I also do a lot of cycling, hiking, and walking my dog (Ada Lovelace, named for the woman who arguably invented the computer).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp25\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/169\/2025\/01\/bafkreif7unjytejxmblmeslx5rp4uecgg42lz6rd75ngxejdrad34grx6q-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2772\" style=\"width:224px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2025\/01\/bafkreif7unjytejxmblmeslx5rp4uecgg42lz6rd75ngxejdrad34grx6q-edited.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2025\/01\/bafkreif7unjytejxmblmeslx5rp4uecgg42lz6rd75ngxejdrad34grx6q-edited-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2025\/01\/bafkreif7unjytejxmblmeslx5rp4uecgg42lz6rd75ngxejdrad34grx6q-edited-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2025\/01\/bafkreif7unjytejxmblmeslx5rp4uecgg42lz6rd75ngxejdrad34grx6q-edited-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2025\/01\/bafkreif7unjytejxmblmeslx5rp4uecgg42lz6rd75ngxejdrad34grx6q-edited-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2025\/01\/bafkreif7unjytejxmblmeslx5rp4uecgg42lz6rd75ngxejdrad34grx6q-edited-676x676.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Me and Ada, wearing the matching quilt coats I made for us last Christmas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! 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