Gender – Mikal B. Eckstrom | Historian and Digital Humanist of Native-Newcomer Relations in the American West

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Word Clouding: Immigrant Jewish Female Settlers

August 30, 2015 No Comments yet Posted in: American Jewish History, R+, Settler Colonialism, Text Analysis

Assumptions are the enemies of historians. Well, at least, this historian. I had hoped that the topic modeling for immigrant female Jewish settlers would be gendered in a way that would provide stark contrast to their male counterparts. You know that old dichotomy—masculine vs. feminine. Even though I often write against such tropes, I nevertheless […]

Word Clouding: Immigrant Jewish Male Settlers

August 11, 2015 No Comments yet Posted in: American Indians, American Jewish History, Native American History, R+, Settler Colonialism, Text Analysis

Historical actors make history! Such axioms allow my project to include the lives of many Jewish settlers that, by in large, have been excluded in the overarching narrative of the American West. The entire dissertation views Jewish settlers as part and parcel of a much large settler colonial project set into motion by the federal government […]