Meg Hicks
- PhD in Classics, Rutgers University (2011)
- BA, Washington and Lee University (2005)
Meg received her Ph.D. in Classics from Rutgers in 2011. Her expertise is in database development, systems administration, web framework coding, and data science in R. As a member of our development team from 2016 to 2019, Meg engaged in coding, data modeling, consulted on DH projects at various stages of development. She also served as a liaison between Research Computing and the CDH, working half-time in Research Computing with a particular emphasis on deploying CDH projects.
Along with presentations at conferences and professional meetings including DH2017 (Montreal) and DH2018 (Mexico City), Meg’s publications in Classics include:
- “Roman religio as a Framework at Tacitus’ Histories 4.83-84,” Journal of Ancient History 1 (2013): 70-82
- “The Prosecution of M. Plautius Silvanus (pr. 24),” Ancient History Bulletin 27 (2013): 55-64.
- “Spartan kings,” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History (2012) (with T. Figueira)
Related projects
The Pliny Project
Making the world of Pliny the Younger accessible
The Pliny Project
Making the world of Pliny the Younger accessible
Reconstructing the Past
Developing software to document historic structures today, enabling digital reconstruction and dissemination of VR models.
Related events
Related posts
Bridging Digital Humanities Internal And Open Source Software Projects Through Reusable Building Blocks
29 June 2018
Software development is often an integral aspect of Digital Humanities projects. By working to generalize and build small modules or utilities targeting specific needs rather than large-scale systems, DH software developers have the capacity to generate tools with greater potential for scholarly reuse, which should enable more rapid development on future projects, and allow developers to focus on innovative work.
CDH Web 2.0 is live!
12 October 2017
The CDH recently unveiled its new web site with a soft launch coinciding with our Fall Open House. We’re very excited to showcase the work of our development team, and also to create a new foundation for future expansion.