Molly Taylor-Poleskey |
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Map Librarian, Harvard University Map Collection
Associate Professor of Digital History, Middle Tennessee State University (2022-2023)
Assistant Professor of Digital History, Middle Tennessee State University (2016-2022)
FORTHCOMING 2024: Recipe for Power: Food, Science, and Politics at the Court of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg
(with the University of Virginia Press's Early Modern Germany series)
EDUCATION:
Stanford University, MA and PhD in History (2010, 2016), with a Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities
PUBLICATIONS:
"A Baker, the Great Elector and Prussian Statebuilding: Territorial Integration in the Everyday,"
German History, February 2019, 37/1. **Recipient of the 2019 German History Article Prize.
"Essen und Trinken" in Marisa Mandabach, Ulrich Pfisterer and Jörge Bellin, eds. Körperbilder der Macht in Europa 1300-1800. Berlin: DeGruyter, 2022.
The Poisoned Orange that Made Prussia (working title, in progress)
“Digital Sources.” Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method (forthcoming)
“Teaching Culture Games: Re-interpreting Slavery at a Living History Museum,” co-authored with Rick Lewis. Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage, April 2021, 14:2 Article 26.
“Digital Humanities Preservation: A Conversation for Developing Sustainable Digital Projects,” with Alissa Miller. In Mary Balkun and Marta Deyrup, eds., Transformative Digital Humanities: Challenges and Opportunities. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020.
“A Simple Process for Charting Urban Change with Digital Tools,” in Christopher Young, ed., Quick Hits: Teaching with the Digital Humanities. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020.
Review of Food, Religion and Communities in Early Modern Europe, by Christopher Kissane. Cultural History, February 2020, vol. 7/2.
“When the Tomato was Purely Ornamental: Considering New World Foods in Seventeenth-Century Berlin,” in Martina Kaller and Frank Jacob, eds., Transatlantic Trade and Global Cultural Transfers. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.
“Mapping the Journey up the Rhine: Digital Representations of the Marriage Journey.” in The Palatine Wedding of 1613. Context, Celebration, and Consequence of an Anglo-German Alliance, edited by Sara Smart and Mara R. Wade. Wolfenbüttel: Wolfenbütteler Arbeiten zur Renaissanceforschung, 2013, 171-190.
“Burney’s Journey: Visualizing social and research networks of one 18th-century ‘Grand Tourist’” in The CESTA Anthology 2013, edited by Jake Coolidge with an introduction by Zephyr Frank. Stanford: The Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA), 2013, 51-58.
“Food consumption at the Königsberg Residence under the Great Elector (English translation).” Preußenland und Preußen. Polyzentrik im Zentralstaat 1525-1945, ed. by Bernhart Jähnig, Jürgen Kloosterhuis, Wulf Wagner. Osnabrück: Tagungsberichte der Historischen Kommission für Landesforschung 29, 2016.
“British Architects in Italy: Visualizing transformation on the Grand Tour,” American Historical Review. Co-author with G. Ceserani, N. Coleman, and S. Murray. 122:2 (April 2017), 425-450.
Review of Food and Health in Early Modern Europe: Diet, Medicine and Society, 1450-1800, by David Gentilcore . Early Science and Medicine 21: 6 (2016), p. 602 – 604.
Review of As American as Shoofly Pie: The Foodlore and Fakelore of Pennsylvania Dutch Cuisine, by William Woy Weaver. Food, Culture & Society 17:4 (December 2014). http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bloomsbury/fcs/2014/00000017/00000004/art00010
Contributor to the Stanford Humanities News Service, Vivarium (the Stanford Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies blog), and the Recipes Project
RELATED EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE:
Republic of Letters Research Workshop at the Stanford Humanities Center (2010-2011), Co-coordinator
Mapping the Republic of Letters Project (2010), Project Coordinator
Grand Tour, Mapping the Republic of Letters (2008-2011), Research Assistant for Prof. Giovanna Cesarani
Herzog August Bibliothek (Spring 2007), Intern, Publications Department and Fellowship Program
Museumsdorf Cloppenburg (Winter 2006), Intern for Adel auf dem Land exhibit and conference
American Antiquarian Society (June 2005-July 2006), Assistant Cataloger of Rare Books
Associate Professor of Digital History, Middle Tennessee State University (2022-2023)
Assistant Professor of Digital History, Middle Tennessee State University (2016-2022)
FORTHCOMING 2024: Recipe for Power: Food, Science, and Politics at the Court of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg
(with the University of Virginia Press's Early Modern Germany series)
EDUCATION:
Stanford University, MA and PhD in History (2010, 2016), with a Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities
PUBLICATIONS:
"A Baker, the Great Elector and Prussian Statebuilding: Territorial Integration in the Everyday,"
German History, February 2019, 37/1. **Recipient of the 2019 German History Article Prize.
"Essen und Trinken" in Marisa Mandabach, Ulrich Pfisterer and Jörge Bellin, eds. Körperbilder der Macht in Europa 1300-1800. Berlin: DeGruyter, 2022.
The Poisoned Orange that Made Prussia (working title, in progress)
“Digital Sources.” Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method (forthcoming)
“Teaching Culture Games: Re-interpreting Slavery at a Living History Museum,” co-authored with Rick Lewis. Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage, April 2021, 14:2 Article 26.
“Digital Humanities Preservation: A Conversation for Developing Sustainable Digital Projects,” with Alissa Miller. In Mary Balkun and Marta Deyrup, eds., Transformative Digital Humanities: Challenges and Opportunities. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020.
“A Simple Process for Charting Urban Change with Digital Tools,” in Christopher Young, ed., Quick Hits: Teaching with the Digital Humanities. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020.
Review of Food, Religion and Communities in Early Modern Europe, by Christopher Kissane. Cultural History, February 2020, vol. 7/2.
“When the Tomato was Purely Ornamental: Considering New World Foods in Seventeenth-Century Berlin,” in Martina Kaller and Frank Jacob, eds., Transatlantic Trade and Global Cultural Transfers. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.
“Mapping the Journey up the Rhine: Digital Representations of the Marriage Journey.” in The Palatine Wedding of 1613. Context, Celebration, and Consequence of an Anglo-German Alliance, edited by Sara Smart and Mara R. Wade. Wolfenbüttel: Wolfenbütteler Arbeiten zur Renaissanceforschung, 2013, 171-190.
“Burney’s Journey: Visualizing social and research networks of one 18th-century ‘Grand Tourist’” in The CESTA Anthology 2013, edited by Jake Coolidge with an introduction by Zephyr Frank. Stanford: The Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA), 2013, 51-58.
“Food consumption at the Königsberg Residence under the Great Elector (English translation).” Preußenland und Preußen. Polyzentrik im Zentralstaat 1525-1945, ed. by Bernhart Jähnig, Jürgen Kloosterhuis, Wulf Wagner. Osnabrück: Tagungsberichte der Historischen Kommission für Landesforschung 29, 2016.
“British Architects in Italy: Visualizing transformation on the Grand Tour,” American Historical Review. Co-author with G. Ceserani, N. Coleman, and S. Murray. 122:2 (April 2017), 425-450.
Review of Food and Health in Early Modern Europe: Diet, Medicine and Society, 1450-1800, by David Gentilcore . Early Science and Medicine 21: 6 (2016), p. 602 – 604.
Review of As American as Shoofly Pie: The Foodlore and Fakelore of Pennsylvania Dutch Cuisine, by William Woy Weaver. Food, Culture & Society 17:4 (December 2014). http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bloomsbury/fcs/2014/00000017/00000004/art00010
Contributor to the Stanford Humanities News Service, Vivarium (the Stanford Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies blog), and the Recipes Project
RELATED EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE:
Republic of Letters Research Workshop at the Stanford Humanities Center (2010-2011), Co-coordinator
Mapping the Republic of Letters Project (2010), Project Coordinator
Grand Tour, Mapping the Republic of Letters (2008-2011), Research Assistant for Prof. Giovanna Cesarani
Herzog August Bibliothek (Spring 2007), Intern, Publications Department and Fellowship Program
Museumsdorf Cloppenburg (Winter 2006), Intern for Adel auf dem Land exhibit and conference
American Antiquarian Society (June 2005-July 2006), Assistant Cataloger of Rare Books
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