Talk: “Layers of the Past: GIS, Social Process, and Contingency in Historical Mapping”
Panel: “Mapping History”

After attending Swarthmore College and the University of Virginia architecture school, Scott Nesbit began PhD work in History at UVa. His dissertation looks at how men and women talked about forgiveness in religious and political contexts during the Civil War era. He has published on digital humanities resources in Academic Commons and Perspectives on History, and recently became the associate director of the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond, where he is working with other scholars to build an atlas of American history.