Benjamin A Wiggins

Director of the Digital Arts, Sciences, & Humanities Program, Affiliate Assistant Professor of History

Professor, Arts & Humanities

Emailbenwig@umn.edu

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Education/Academic qualification

PhD, University of Minnesota

Award Date: May 1 2013

BA, University of Minnesota

Award Date: May 15 2007

External Positions

Director of Digital Learning Initiatives, University of Pennsylvania

Jun 2014 → Aug 2016

Lecturer in History, University of Pennsylvania

Sep 2013 → Aug 2016

Associate Director of Online Learning, University of Pennsylvania

Mar 2013 → Jun 2014

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Optimizing Crowdsourced Transcription using Handwritten Text Recognition
Wiggins, B. A. & Wright, D. E.
American Council of Learned Societies
3/1/21 → 8/31/22
Project: Research project
Building Capable Communities for Crowdsourced Transcription
Roberts, E. & Wiggins, B. A.
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
9/1/20 → 8/31/23
Project: Research project
Building a Digital Portal for Exploring Bernard and Picart's Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the World'
Shank, J. & Wiggins, B. A.
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
2/1/19 → 7/31/21
Project: Research project
Rhizomes of Mexican American Art since 1848
Davalos, K. M., Hearn, S. S., McFadden, C., Thomas, M. M. & Wiggins, B. A.
THE HENRY LUCE FOUNDATION, INC.
5/1/19 → 12/31/19
Project: Research project

6 Article
1 Book
1 Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Confronting the History of Redlining
Wiggins, B. A., Apr 2021, In: Risk Management Association Journal. 103, April, p. 32-39 8 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Calculating Race: Racial Discrimination in Risk Assessment
Wiggins, B. A., 2020, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Inc. 152 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Course Design in the Digital Humanities
Wiggins, B. A., 2020, Routledge International Handbook of Research Methods in the Digital Humanities. Schuster, K. & Dunn, S. (eds.). New York: Routledge
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Library Research Sprints as a Tool to Engage Faculty and and Promote Collaboration
McBurney, J., Hunt, S., Gyendina, M. L., Brown, S. J., Wiggins, B. A. & Nackerud, S. A., Apr 2020, In: Portal: Libraries and the Academy. 20, 2, p. 305-338
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
1 Scopus citations
Research sprints: A new model of support
Wiggins, B., Hunt, S. L., McBurney, J., Younger, K., Peper, M., Brown, S., Albin, T. & Orozco, R., 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Academic Librarianship.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2 Scopus citations

R1 Digital Scholarship Program Survey Dataset, 2020
Hennesy, C. K., Wiggins, B. A., Vetruba, B., Logsdon, A. & Janisch, E., Data Repository for the University of Minnesota, 2020
DOI: 10.13020/tdtb-2b96, http://hdl.handle.net/11299/217051
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Parole Rules in the United States: Conditions of Parole in Historical Perspective, 1956-2020
Wiggins, B. A., Rhine, E. E., Mitchell, K. L., Crye, B. & Tu, R. L., Data Repository for the University of Minnesota, 2020
DOI: 10.13020/598v-vr53, http://hdl.handle.net/11299/217106
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