We’re hiring a full-stack developer
RRCHNM is hiring a full-stack web developer. We’re looking for a developer or developer-scholar who can help us fulfill our mission to democratize history. RRCHNM has a twenty-five year track re
Collecting These Times: RRCHNM Gathers and Interprets COVID-19’s Impact on American Judaism
by Anne Reynolds From the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) has worked to document the ways in which the virus has impacted religious commun
Saying Goodbye — Kim Nguyen
Have you ever looked at one of our websites and asked yourself what kind of design firm RRCHNM uses? For a large number of our projects, that design firm has been Kim Nguyen, our long-time in house we
Saying Goodbye — John Flatness
If you’ve ever gone to the Omeka forums looking for help with a vexing problem, big or small, with your Omeka-based website, there’s a pretty good chance that the response you received was
Saying Goodbye — Ken Albers
Sixteen years ago, Ken Albers was a new doctoral student in history here at George Mason University. Part of his program included being assigned as a graduate research assistant at what was then known
New Directions at RRCHNM
Fifteen years ago a team of faculty, students, and developers here at RRCHNM began an ambitious new project. They wanted to create a browser plug-in that would allow users to capture and save things t
Documenting, Sharing, and Learning from Jewish Life During the Pandemic
The Council of American Jewish Museums and George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media Receive Grants for Major Archiving Project Led by Lippman Kanfer Foundation for L
PhD Students Brannan and Hubai Accepted as HASTAC Scholars
Two PhD students in GMU’s Department of History and Art History, Laura Brannan and Janine Hubai, have been accepted as HASTAC Scholars. The HASTAC scholarship program supports graduate students
Murali’s “Visualizing the Interwoven World” Receives Grants from AIIS
Dr. Deepthi Murali has received a Digital India Learning Scholarship grant from the American Institute of Indian Studies in support of a new digital art history project. Visualizing the Interwove
40,000+ Documents from Religious Bodies Census Digitized Nearly a Century Later
Today the American Religious Ecologies project is releasing the initial version of a website that makes available tens of thousands of documents from the 1926 U.S. Census of Religious Bodies. These sc