Articles

Completed Publications: Refereed Journal Articles

  • Jo Guldi, “Text Mining for Historical Analysis,” American Historical Review (accepted & forthcoming)

  • Jo Guldi, “The Algorithm: Long-term trends and short-term change,” American Historical Review 127:2 (June 2022): 895-911 https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhac160

  • Jo Guldi, “The Climate Emergency Demands a New Kind of History,” Isis 113:2 (June 2022) https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/719704

  • Jo Guldi, “What Kind of Information Does the Era of Climate Change Require?,” Climatic Change 169, no. 1–2 (November 2021): 1-20, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-021-03243-5.

  • “From Critique to Audit: A Pragmatic Response to the Climate Emergency from the Humanities and Social Sciences, and a Call to Action,” KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge 5, no. 2 (September 1, 2021): 169–96, https://doi.org/10.1086/716854.

  • “The Official Mind’s View of Empire, in Miniature: Quantifying World Geography in Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates,” Journal of World History 32, no. 2 (June 2021): 345–70, https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2021.0028.

  • With Daniel Story, Tim Hitchcock, and Michelle Moravec, “History’s Future in the Age of the Internet,” The American Historical Review, Volume 125, Issue 4, October 2020, Pages 1337–1346.

  • “Scholarly Infrastructure as Critical Argument: Nine principles in a preliminary survey of the bibliographic and critical values expressed by scholarly web-portals for visualizing data,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 14:3 (October 2020) http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/14/3/000463/000463.html

  • With Ashley S. Lee, Poom Chiarawongse, and Andras Zsom, “The Role of Critical Thinking in Humanities Infrastructure: The Pipeline Concept with a Study of HaToRI (Hansard Topic Relevance Identifier),” Digital Humanities Quarterly 14:3 (October 2020) http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/14/3/000481/000481.html

  • “The Measure of Modernity,” International Journal for History, Culture, and Modernity (October 2019) http://www.history-culture-modernity.org/articles/10.18352/hcm.589/galley/647/download/

  • Jo Guldi, “Parliament’s Debates about Infrastructure: An Exercise in Using Dynamic Topic Models to Synthesize Historical Change,” Technology and Culture 60, no. 1 (March 21, 2019): 1–33. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/719944

    “The Modern Paradigm of Explanation,” Isis 110:2 (June 2019): 346-353. 

  • “World Neoliberalism as Rebellion From Below?: British Squatters and the Global Interpretation of Poverty, 1946–1974,” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 10, no. 1 (April 25, 2019): 29–57, https://doi.org/10.1353/hum.2019.0001.

  • “Topic Modeling the History of Infrastructure in Nineteenth-century Great Britain,” Technology and Culture (forthcoming 2019)

  • “The Rise of Global Squatterdom,” Humanity Journal (forthcoming 2019)

  •  “Critical Search: A Procedure for guided reading in large-scale textual corpora,” Journal of Cultural Analytics (December 2018).  Includes code and data.

  • (with Ben Williams) “Synthesis and Large-scale Textual Corpora: A Nested topic model of Britain’s Debates overlanded Property in the Nineteenth Century,” in Current Research in Digital History 1:1 (2018): http://crdh.rrchnm.org/essays/v01-01-synthesis-and-large-scale-textual-corpora/.  Includes code, data, and tool.

  • “Global Questions About Rent and the Longue Duree of Urban Power, 1848 to the Present,” New Global Studies (March 2018).

  • “A History of the Participatory Map,” Public Culture 29:1 (January 1, 2017): 79–112. Link

  • “The Case for Utopia: History and the Possible Meanings of Brexit a Hundred Years On,” Globalizations 14, no. 1 (January 2, 2017): 150–56.

  • (with David Armitage) “Longing for the Longue Durée.” Isis 107:2 (2016): 353-57, Link

  • (with David Armitage) ‘Le retour de la longue durée: une perspective anglo-américaine,’ Annales, 70, 2 (April–June 2015): 289–318; rptd. (abridged), Aeon Magazine (2 October 2014): Link; Chinese translation, Global History Review (Beijing), 6 (2013): 90–117; Dutch translation (abridged), Nexus, 69 (2015): 38–50.

  • (with David Armitage) ‘Pour une “histoire ambitieuse”: une réponse à nos critiques,’ Annales 70, 2 (April–June 2015): 367–78.

  • (with David Armitage) ‘The History Manifesto: A Reply to Deborah Cohen and Peter Mandler,’ American Historical Review, 120, 2 (April 2015): 543–54.

  • “The History of Walking and the Digital Turn: Stride and Lounge,” Journal of Modern History 84:1 (March 2012), 116-144. “The Other Side of the Panopticon: Technology, Archives, and the Difficulty of Seeing Victorian Heterotopias,” Journal of the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science 1:3 (2011): 1-25. Link

  • “The Uses of Planning and the Decay of Strategy,” Contemporary Security Policy, 27:2 (April 2006), pp. 209-236. Link

Completed Publications: Non-Refereed Journal Articles