Jim McGrath

Jim McGrath (he/his) works at the intersections of public history and digital humanities. His professional interests include hyperlocal histories, data and archival literacies and digital pedagogy. He earned a doctorate in English from Northeastern University. At Northeastern he was project co-director (with Alicia Peaker) of Our Marathon: The Boston Bombing Digital Archive, an award-winning digital public humanities initiative. He has also worked on the award-winning Rhode Island COVID-19 Archive as well as Mapping Violence, a digital restorative justice initiative (among other projects). His writing has appeared in such academic journals as American Quarterly, Digital Humanities Quarterly and The Public Historian, and in publications like Teaching Public History (UNC Press, 2023), Doing Public Humanities (Routledge, 2020) and The SAGE Handbook of Web History (2018).