BIOGRAPHY
Micki Kaufman is a fifth-year doctoral student in US History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY GC) and Director of Information Systems at the Modern Language Association (MLA). She earned her MA in US History from CUNY GC in 2013 and her BA in US History summa cum laude from Columbia University in 2011. Micki’s doctoral dissertation, “‘Everything on Paper Will Be Used Against Me:’ Quantifying Kissinger,” involves the application of text analysis and visualization techniques to the study of the American statesman’s diplomatic correspondence from 1968-1977, most notably the National Security Archive’s Kissinger Collection.
In her work at the MLA, Micki directs systems and data support teams, directs the print and online production units, and oversees software development. Micki speaks frequently on digital humanities, data visualization, text analysis and historical interpretation, is a four-time winner of the CUNY GC’s yearly Provost’s Digital Innovation Grant, and a recipient of ACH’s 2015 Lisa Lena Prize and ADHO’s 2015 Paul Fortier Prize for best paper by a new and emerging scholar.
RESEARCH PRESENTATION
Quantifying Kissinger: Understanding Foreign Policy in Time and Space
In “‘Everything on Paper Will Be Used Against Me:’ Quantifying Kissinger” Micki Kaufman has employed a host of Digital Humanities approaches across a variety of spaces in accessing, organizing, processing, visualizing, analyzing, and interpreting over 18,000 memoranda and telephone transcripts of the National Security Archive’s Kissinger Collection. Combining computational text and metadata analyses with a non-linear, multidimensional and multimodal engagement with visual, sound, and spatial (re)-design opens up additional dimensions of interrogation and interpretation, contributes to an understanding of the material and the DH process, and catalyzes the research experience.
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