Editorial Board, 2023-2024
John Randolph, Editor-in-Chief
John Randolph is the Founding Editor of SourceLab. An award-winning cultural and intellectual historian, he is Director of the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research and teaching interests include the history of private life, the history of communications, and the theory and practice of documentary editing. He has served on the prize committee of the American Historical Association’s J. Franklin Jameson Award, “for outstanding achievement in the editing of historical sources.”
Rhiannon Hein, Managing Editor
Rhiannon Hein is a PhD Candidate in Modern German History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her dissertation investigates the interplay between identity, globalism, and Enlightenment narratives of modernity within the popular and academic culture of Göttingen, a leading center of the late Enlightenment. Framing the university town as a space of transit and exchange embedded in foreign imperial networks, her research explores the temporal nature of German identity and belonging at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Christopher Goodwin, Associate Editor
Christopher Goodwin is a Doctoral Candidate in History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, specializing in the history of Germany. His current project interrogates the cultural and ideological construction of the “disabled veteran” in Nazi Germany and the use of these veterans in the regime’s bid to racially re-order Central and Eastern Europe. He is also interested in using Python scripting, natural language processing, and other digital methodologies to perform semantic analysis on digitized sources. His current inquiry charts fluctuations, variations, and transformations in vocabulary and diction when historical figures spoke or wrote about disability.
Katelyn Barbour, Editorial Assistant
Katelyn Barbour is an undergraduate history student at UIUC. She is also majoring in Gender and Women’s Studies. Katelyn is currently interested in history as it applies to the intersectionality of race and gender in post-reconstruction era American history.
Jacob Bell, Editorial Board Member at Large
Jacob Bell is an Assistant Professor of History at Texas Tech University. His work focuses on the forced migration and reproductive labor of enslaved women in the early medieval world, drawing on multilingual materials from Russia, Scandinavia, and the Mediterranean basin. His book-in-progress charts the mobility of mostly nameless young women trafficked into the Norse settlements in what is now Iceland and Russia from Eastern Europe, North America, and Central Asia, arguing these women constitute an essential aspect of the medieval world’s increasing globalization. He supplements this analysis with digital approaches like geographic information systems to visualize the key locations, routes, and nodes in this global system.
Chloe Parrella, Editorial Board Member at Large
Chloe Parrella is a Graduate Student in History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work looks at the early medieval English environment through the lens of materiality. Specifically, she examine the ways that people interacted with and understood their ecological surroundings. She is also very interested in the reception of the medieval by modern audiences and the uses (and misuses) of the medieval in media and politics.
Mary Ton, Editorial Board Member at Large
Mary Ton is an Assistant Professor and Digital Humanities Librarian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on the global history of early screen technologies and their impact on multimodal forms of communication today.
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