A flexible venue for work at the intersection of history, computation, and critical approaches to political economy, empire, and environment — draft papers, dataset notes, method sketches, and short pieces that don't fit traditional formats. Code included, methods documented, limitations acknowledged.
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Author (Year). "Title." Working Papers in Critical Search, Paper NNN, vX.X. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.XXXXXXX
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Historian of modern Britain and the long history of land. Works on text mining of parliamentary debates, historiography of the longue durée, and the ethics of computational history.
Environmental historian at the University of Saskatchewan and co-editor of Historical Methods. Researches the “ghost acres” that sustained industrial cities and builds HGIS and text-mining tools for environmental and settler-colonial history.