Trudi J Abel
| Title: | Visiting Assistant Professor |
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| Email Address: | tabel@duke.edu |
Education
- PhD Rutgers University, 1993
Research Interests
Trudi Abel is a cultural historian who directs the Digital Durham Project at Duke University. The Digital Durham web site (http://digitaldurham.duke.edu) provides scholars, undergraduates, the general public as well as K-12 students and their teachers with ready access to digitized sources that document the rise of Durham in the post-Civil War decades. Abel’s research interests span American print culture, southern history and the use of technology in the history classroom. In her spring class, “Digital Durham and the New South,” Abel’s students use new technology—like GPS devices, digitized maps, and Voicethread—as well as traditional source materials—manuscript letters and photographs—to research and publish the history of the Durham community. In addition to developing their own individual research projects, Duke students in the Digital Durham course serve as mentors to middle-school students at Durham School of the Arts, a public magnet school that is located near Duke’s East Campus.
Current Projects
Digital Durham Project (http:digitaldurham.duke.edu)
Recent Publications
Other
- T.J. Abel. ""The Power and the Poverty of Written Records: Constructing an Authentic Research Experience for Undergraduates." . Winter, 2000. (http://magazine.lib.duke.edu/issue2/libmag0200.swf) [swf]
- T.J. Abel. "Students as Historians: Lessons from an `Interactive' Census Database Project." . March, March, 1997. [CFM]