jo guldi

Oct 11, 2023 | 6:00pm
Book Talk
934 Schermerhorn Hall

Extractive Media presents a book talk with renowned historian Jo Guldi as she discusses her recent book, The Dangerous Art of Text Mining (Cambridge University Press, 2022). This talk will include pre-circulated readings.

About the Speaker:

Jo Guldi completed her PhD in History at the University of California, Berkeley (2008) and is currently Professor (in Practice) of Quantitative Theory and Methods at Emory University.  Previously, Dr. Guldi held positions mainly in Departments of History at the University of Chicago, the Harvard Society of Fellows, Brown University, and Southern Methodist University.  Dr. Guldi's research into quantitative methods focuses on improving AI approaches to understanding our past. Her historical research concerns the history of property rights, the origins of eminent domain, and the story of rent control.  Her articles have been published in the American Historical Review, Journal of Modern History, and Annales. From 2015-2021 she was PI of a $1 million NSF grant entitled "The Unaffordable World." Her award winning books have been covered in The Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, Boston Review, and Guardian.