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Rebecca Frost Davis
Program Officer for the Humanities
Rebecca Frost Davis is program officer for the humanities at the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE). Previously, Dr. Davis served as assistant director for instructional technology at the Associated Colleges of the South Technology Center and as assistant professor of classical studies at Rhodes College, Denison University and Sewanee: The University of the South.
Dr. Davis has taught numerous workshops on teaching with technology for faculty, technologists, and librarians at liberal arts colleges. She has also planned conferences and consulted on digital teaching, the teaching of writing with technology, classical studies, intercampus teaching, and virtual collaboration. She helped coordinate the Sunoikisis virtual department of classics, including supporting intercampus courses and a three-year longitudinal study of Sunoikisis.
Dr. Davis is a member of the Association of Computers and the Humanities and an associate member of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. She has reviewed grant applications for the National Endowment for the Humanities and conference proposals for EDUCAUSE, and also took part in workshops on Building Effective Virtual Organizations sponsored by the National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure. President of the Theta of Texas chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Southwestern University, Dr. Davis also tutors elementary students via Georgetown Partners in Education, a non-profit organization that seeks to encourage and prepare students in Georgetown, Texas, for success in school, the workplace, the community, and their personal lives.
Dr. Davis holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in classical studies from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. degrees (summa cum laude) in classical studies and Russian from Vanderbilt University.
Selected Publications and Presentations
- (co-authored with Bryan Alexander) “Should Liberal Arts Campuses Do Digital Humanities? Process and Products in the Small College World.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, ed. Matthew K. Gold. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
- Davis, Rebecca Frost, and Quinn Dombrowski. 2011. Divided and Conquered: How Multivarious Isolation Is Suppressing Digital Humanities Scholarship. National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education. http://www.nitle.org/live/files/36-divided-and-conquered
- “Should liberal arts campuses do digital humanities?” with Bryan Alexander, forthcoming in Debates within the Digital Humanities
- “The Liberal Arts Online”, Inside Higher Ed Audio Conference, March 17, 2011.
- “Digital Humanities and Liberal Education” Invited Panelist: “What is the role of universities in a digital future?” Texas Institute for Literary and Textual Studies (TILTS) 2011, Symposium Two: Digital Humanities, Teaching and Learning, March 12, 2011.
- “Four Strategies for Liberal Education in a Networked World,” Liberal.education Nation, February 2, 2011.
- “Creating Culture and Crossing Borders: Digital Storytelling on and off the Liberal Arts Campus,” Global Positioning: Essential Learning, Student Success, and the Currency of U.S. Degrees, AAC&U 2011 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, January 27, 2011 (with Thomas D’Agostino, Doug Reilly, Truett Cates, Brett Boessen, and Elizabeth Brewer)
- “Engaging Liberal Education at a Distance,” Global Positioning: Essential Learning, Student Success, and the Currency of U.S. Degrees, AAC&U 2011 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, January 28, 2011 (with Gret Antilla, Paul Burkhardt, Kebokile Dengu-Zvobgo, and Ed Clausen)
- “Digital Humanities at Small Liberal Arts College: Innovation and Integration,” Coalition for Networked Information, Project Briefing: Fall 2010 Membership Meeting, December 14, 2010.
- “The Landscape: Engaging Today’s Students,” Invited Speaker, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, September 29, 2010
- “Collaborative Classics: Technology and the Small Liberal Arts College,” Classics@, Volume 02, 2004, Christopher Blackwell, Ross Scaife, edd. (The Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University).
- “The Associated Colleges of the South Course Delivery System.” Best Technology Practices in Higher Education. Ed. Les Lloyd, 2004.
Contact Rebecca
- Phone: (512) 863-1734
- E-mail: rdavis@nitle.org
- Twitter: @FrostDavis
Speaking Invitations
To invite Dr. Davis to speak at your campus or event, please contact Arden Baxter.
Recent Activity
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Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold and published in January, features essays by NITLE’s Lisa Spiro, Bryan Alexander, and Rebecca Frost Davis. The collection of essays “brings together leading figures in the field to explore its theories, methods, and practices and to clarify its multiple possibilities and tensions.” -
NITLE and the Texas A&M Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture are co-sponsoring a pre-convention workshop on the digital humanities at the MLA convention. Language and literature scholars who wish to learn about, start, or join digital scholarly projects may apply. See also our white paper about the development of the digital humanities at liberal arts colleges. (photo credit: Quinn Dombrowski via Flickr) -
In this paper, based on interviews with liberal arts faculty, technologists, and librarians about the state of digital humanities on their campuses, Rebecca Davis and Quinn Dombrowski examine the scope and impact of isolation on the development of the digital humanities at liberal arts institutions. -
March 17, 2011: Inside Higher Ed will present “The Liberal Arts Online,” an audio conference featuring Rebecca Davis, program officer for the humanities at the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education. Dr. Davis will discuss the best existing models for offering liberal arts courses online, the latest technology, how to gain faculty support, and much more. -
Can we preserve and transform liberal education for a networked world? Rebecca Frost Davis, NITLE’s program officer for the humanities, shares her thoughts about the recent AAC&U annual meeting as a guest blogger for liberal.education nation.