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Austin Mason

Austin Mason

Assistant Director of Digital Humanities

Carleton College

Faculty (Adjunct, Lecturer, or Teaching Faculty)

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Biography

Austin Mason is Assistant Director of Digital Humanities at Carleton College. He holds a PhD in History from Boston College, with an emphasis on religious history, material culture, archaeology, spatial humanities and the digital humanities, and an M.St. in Medieval British History from Oxford University. His work has been supported by grants from the ACLS, Mellon Foundation, and National Endowment for the Humanities, among others. He is the co-PI for an NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant to develop the Virtual Viking Longship Project: A Study in the Future of Liberal Arts Teaching and Research. Their interests include intercultural and interreligious exchange, migration, diaspora, and mobility, trade, economy, and global networks, cultural heritage.

Thematic Interests

  • Intercultural and Interreligious ExchangeStudy of interactions between different cultural and religious communities across time and space., Migration, Diaspora, and Mobility – Historical movements of peoples, exile, forced migration, and diasporic identities., Trade, Economy, and Global Networks – Economic systems, merchant communities, and cross-cultural trade routes.
  • Cultural Heritage and Material CultureStudy of historical artifacts, architecture, manuscripts, and preservation practices.
  • Religious and Intellectual HistoryDevelopment of religious thought, philosophy, and theological debates., Memory, Myth, and Public History – How history is remembered, represented, and contested in public discourse and media.