The New Historia: Creating A Digital Encyclopedia & the Challenges of Feminist Historical Recovery Part II

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The New Historia is a digital platform of encyclopedic information of female identifying histories organized into condensed biographies (referred to as schemas) for private and educational use. This online encyclopedia provides an alternative or accompanying outlet for scholars to write comprehensive biographies of women and allows persons without institutional access to research libraries and databases to investigate a given figure.

Archaeology uncovers the lives of women; but the context in which these women’s lived experiences were found through archaeological artifacts and recorded texts is a site of continuing investigation. Further, female identifying histories are changed in accordance with the social and political climate of the contemporary moment, as well as current understanding of women’s medical conditions. This paper will investigate the questions of narrative formation, access to information, and why alternative digital platforms are important as outlets for publicly accessible academic resources.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2025

Keywords

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Nicole Haddow