While useful, this intervention is limited, by its nature, to history dissertations. It suggests how far we still have to go, given that this emanates from a PhD program at GMu that offers a doctorate in digital history (thanks to my late friend and colleague, Roy Rosenzweig, who launched it in the 1990s)! Yet, traditional faculty in that department resist changes in the dissertation’s form. Our challenge is how to launch the conversation most effectively here in the coming months (and, I fear, years) that it will take to make headway on this critical issue. We need to add our own ideas and thoughts, drawn from a rich disciplinary mix of programs and projects represented in the NML, ITP program and elsewhere, to move this forward at GC. I think the stars are finally becoming aligned here to allow that to happen.
