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Lisa Baer-Tsarfati
[edit]Lisa Baer-Tsarfati | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 1, 1985 |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Lisa Baer |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Intellectual History |
| Sub-discipline | Scottish History |
Lisa Baer-Tsarfati is an American intellectual historian, digital humanist, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility advocate.
Education
[edit]In 2007, Baer-Tsarfati graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Liberal Arts and Sciences. She attended the University of Edinburgh from 2013 to 2014, where she received a Master's of Science by Research (MScR) in Scottish history. She is currently pursuing a PhD in History at the University of Guelph.[1]
Career
[edit]Academic Work
[edit]Baer-Tsarfati's master's research examined the concept of cultural gradation in the early-modern central Scottish Highlands, concluding that Scottish elites residing in this region regularly code-switched between Gaelic and Lowland behaviors as environment and context demanded.[2] Since completing this work, her research focus has shifted and she now explores the relationship between ambition, authority, and gender in early-modern Scotland, Britain, and Europe.[1] Baer-Tsarfati is particularly known for her use of word-embedding models and latent semantic text analysis to recreate historically authentic definitions of particular words and concepts.[3][4]
Public History
[edit]Baer-Tsarfati is a moderator and panelist at the popular online public history project, AskHistorians. Her contributions for AskHistorians include responses on general Scottish history, the British systems of nobility, and gender history.[5] She has also discussed her research on BBC Radio Scotland's "Time Travels" podcast.[6]
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
[edit]Since 2013, Baer-Tsarfati has served on multiple diversity and inclusion boards, committees, and special commissions. As an advocate for equity and inclusion, she advises professionally on inclusive marketing and communications, government policy, and university programs.
Publications
[edit]- "Gender, Authority, and Control: Male Invective and the Restriction of Female Ambition in Early Modern Scotland and England, 1583 –1616,” International Review of Scottish Studies 44 (2019): 35–56. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21083/irss.v44i0.5901
- “Out of the Ivory Tower, into the Digital World: Democratising Scholarly Exchange,” History 106, no. 171(2022): 287–301 (Co-authored with Fraser Raeburn and Viktoria Porter). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13259
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Lisa Baer-Tsarfati | University of Guelph - Academia.edu". uoguelph.academia.edu. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
- ^ Baer, Lisa. "'Highland Chiefs and Lowland Lords': The Gradation of Cultural Identity Amongst the Perthshire Elite, 1500–1650." Master's thesis. 2014.
- ^ Baer-Tsarfati, Lisa. 2020 “Word Embeddings and Critical Analysis: Methodological Approaches to the Meaningful Study of Historical Text." Paper presented at Tri-University History Research Symposium, Virtual Conference, 15 July.
- ^ Baer-Tsarfati, Lisa. 2020. “Word Embeddings for the Historian: Employing LSI to Understand How Words Were Historically Used." Paper presented at CSDH-SCHN 2020: Building Community Online, Virtual Conference, 3 June. https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:30149
- ^ "profiles/historiagrephour - AskHistorians". reddit. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
- ^ "BBC Radio Scotland - Time Travels, Empire and Dominion". BBC. Retrieved 2022-12-21.