Wilder, Colin F

Assistant Professor

I am the associate director of the Center for Digital Humanities at USC. There I design and supervise digital humanities projects. I frequently collaborate with faculty in the humanities departments, computer science and library and information science. As a historian by training, my own interest is especially on using text analysis and network analysis to reground intellectual history, with a particular focus on the history of concepts of freedom, equality and property in European history.

Biographical Profile

College
College of Arts and Sciences
Department
History
Tenure Status
Tenure Track

International Activity

International Activities
Yes
Type of Activity
Teaching
Description
Fulbright Austrian-American Teacher Exchange: Bundesgymnasium Perchtoldsdorf, and Handelsakademie Modling, both in Vienna, Austria
Institutional Focus Areas
Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities
Extended Residence in Foreign Country
No
Speaks Non-English Language
Yes (German, French, Latin)

Interest Background

Do you include students in your research?
Undergraduates and Graduates
Interest Keywords
Digital Humanities
social network analysis
text analysis
history of concepts of property
freedom and equality
Institutional Focus Areas
Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities
Personal Focus Areas
Digital Humanities, Historical network analysis, German intellectual and legal history

Professional Preparation(Education & Training)

Dates Institution Location Degree Field of Study
2010 University of Chicago Chicago, IL Ph.D. German history
2003 University of Chicago Chicago, IL M.A. History
1997 Yale University New Haven, CT B.A. Philosophy

Memberships & Professional Activities

Dates Type Description Institution/Entity
Present Membership Member German Studies Association
Present Membership Member Association for Computing and the Humanities
Present Membership Member Sixteenth Century Studies Conference
Present Membership Member American Historical Association
2008 - 2009 Professional Activity Graduate Student Organizer, Chicago History and Human Rights Symposium University of Chicago
2009 - 2010 Professional Activity Representative, Graduate Student Affairs Committee History Department, University of Chicago
2013 - 2014 Professional Activity Humanities Research Computing Committee College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Carolina
2014 - Present Professional Activity Director, Digital Humanities Track Sixteenth Century Society and Conference

Positions & Appointments

Dates Description Institution/Entity
2008 - 2009 Von Holst Prize Lecturer and Lecturer in European Civilization University of Chicago
2010 - 2011 Postdoctoral Research Associate Brown University, Political Theory Project, Political Science Department
2011 - 2012 Solmsen Fellow University of Wisconsin–Madison, Institute for Research in the Humanities
2012 - Present Associate Director University of South Carolina, Center for Digital Humanities
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