Review: People, Practice, Power: Digital Humanities Outside the Center, edited by Anne B. McGrail, Angel David Nieves, and Siobhan Senier

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Book Review| September 01 2022 Review: People, Practice, Power: Digital Humanities Outside the Center, edited by Anne B. McGrail, Angel David Nieves, and Siobhan Senier People, Practice, Power: Digital Humanities Outside the Center. Ed. Anne B. McGrail, Angel David Nieves, and Siobhan Senier. University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 360 pp. /$142.00 (hb) ISBN 1517910676, $32.95 (sb) ISBN 1517910684. Michael J. Kramer Michael J. Kramer Michael J. Kramer is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the State University of New York’s Brockport campus. He specializes in modern United States, transnational, public, and digital history as well as cultural criticism. His website can be found at michaeljkramer.net. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2022) 49 (3): 107–111. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2022.49.3.107 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Michael J. Kramer; Review: People, Practice, Power: Digital Humanities Outside the Center, edited by Anne B. McGrail, Angel David Nieves, and Siobhan Senier. Afterimage 1 September 2022; 49 (3): 107–111. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2022.49.3.107 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAfterimage Search Roughly a decade ago, the academic world was abuzz with the revolutionary possibilities of applying digital and computational approaches to humanities topics. What has happened since then? A new essay collection edited by Anne B. McGrail, Angel David Nieves, and Siobhan Senier, part of the “Debates in the Digital Humanities” series published by the University of Minnesota Press, offers as good a place as any to take stock of the state of the field. That is, if we can even call digital humanities (DH) a field. The question of whether what we are investigating is a distinct discipline or if digital humanities as a practice remains interdisciplinary and interstitial continues to be unclear. After all, the humanities are already multifaceted. Adding “digital” makes things even more confusing. We cannot even decide on what verb form to use. Some write “digital humanities is a field”; others insist “digital humanities are a... You do not currently have access to this content.