Jessica Otis

Director of Public Projects

Dr. Jessica Otis is an Assistant Professor of History and a director at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. After receiving both her MS in Mathematics and her PhD in History from the University of Virginia, she was a CLIR-DLF Postdoctoral Fellow in Early Modern Data Curation working on the NEH-funded Six Degrees of Francis Bacon. Subsequently, as the Digital Humanities Specialist in the University Libraries at Carnegie Mellon University, she co-founded the dSHARP digital scholarship center and the PGH|DH regional digital humanities group. Her research focuses on the cultural history of mathematics, cryptography, and plague in early modern England and her articles have appeared in the Journal of British Studies, Digital Humanities Quarterly, and the International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing.

Projects

Death By Numbers

DataScribe

World History Commons