Molly Taylor-Poleskey |
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In my role as the Map Librarian at Harvard, I teach sessions about the history of mapmaking for a wide range of disciplines and enjoy collaborating with my colleagues to integrate digital tools into spatial scholarship. My teaching revolves around making connections: between the past and the present, across disciplines and between the classroom and the "real world." For me, History is about doing, making, and experimenting and that is what grounds my teaching style.
As a Digital History professor, I enjoyed designing and teaching project-based courses that opened opportunities with interdisciplinary collaborations. In the spring of 2023, for example, I joined Prof. Medha Sarkar's Software Engineering course to create on a new, interactive platform for Hidden Town in 3D, which is a joint project with Prof. Rick Lewis in MTSU's Animation Program and Old Salem Museum and Gardens. In the summer of 2022, I teamed up with Profs. Sisavanh Phouthavong Houghton and Tony Johnston to lead a study abroad experience to Italy that blended the subjects of Renaissance food and culture, art, and Fermentation Science. A symbiotic and delicious curricular salmagundi!
As a Digital History professor, I enjoyed designing and teaching project-based courses that opened opportunities with interdisciplinary collaborations. In the spring of 2023, for example, I joined Prof. Medha Sarkar's Software Engineering course to create on a new, interactive platform for Hidden Town in 3D, which is a joint project with Prof. Rick Lewis in MTSU's Animation Program and Old Salem Museum and Gardens. In the summer of 2022, I teamed up with Profs. Sisavanh Phouthavong Houghton and Tony Johnston to lead a study abroad experience to Italy that blended the subjects of Renaissance food and culture, art, and Fermentation Science. A symbiotic and delicious curricular salmagundi!
COURSES TAUGHT:
Middle Tennessee State University
University of Arkansas
Stanford University
GRADUATE DIGITAL PROJECTS OVERSEEN:
Middle Tennessee State University
- Hist 7995 Digital History Field School: Hidden Town in 3D (Maymester 2018)
- Visit our new website! HiddenTown3D.org
- Hist 3075: Food and Culture of Renaissance Italy (Summer 2022 Study Abroad course)
- Hist 3090: Science, Religion, and Magic in Early Modern Europe (Fall 2018)
- Reacting to the Past Course
- Hist 6450/7450 Digital Tools for Historians (Spring 2017)
- Hands-on graduate course for both traditional and public history MA and PhD students. Syllabus
- Hist 3870 Digital Public History: Mapping Local Stories
- An upper-division, experiential learning undergraduate course making a Curatescape map and leading a public walking tour.
- Momentous Murfreesboro (Fall 2021) Syllabrochure
- Bygone Nashville (Fall 2017) Syllabus
- An upper-division, experiential learning undergraduate course making a Curatescape map and leading a public walking tour.
- Hist 2010 U.S. History to 1877 (Fall 2016, Spring 2017)
University of Arkansas
- Crash Course in Digital Humanities for Liberal Arts Graduate Students (January 2022)
- Weeklong workshop co-led with Dr. Andrew Fialka
Stanford University
- Hist 10B/110B Early Modern Europe Survey (Spring 2016)
- Hist 17S Identities of Early Modern Noble Women (Spring 2011)
- "Sources and methods" course designed to coach potential majors in the skills of primary source analysis, critique, writing and revision. Syllabus
GRADUATE DIGITAL PROJECTS OVERSEEN:
- Coming Home: A History of Queer Nightlife in Nashville
- Tennessee State Parks: Non-Personal Interpretation Text Analysis
- Heritage Center of Rutherford County 360 Tour
- Appalachian Land for Free(dom): Wheat, Tennessee
- Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues
- Through the Lens of the Kolb Brothers: Photography and Tourism in the Grand Canyon
- Murfreesboro Music
- Murfreesboro Monuments
- Red Clay's Eternal Flame
- Beck Knob Cemetery: Remembering and Recognizing an Integral Part of Chattanooga
- Matt Gardner Homestead Museum: Material Culture of an African American Community in Middle Tennessee
- Bradley Academy Omeka database
- Nashville Brewery Palladio Visualization (unpublished Palladio project)
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