Cathy Davidson Nominated to sit on the National Council of the Humanities

In a press release yesterday, the White House announced the nomination of Cathy Davidson as member of the National Council of the Humanities, which advises the NEH Chair.  At Duke, Cathy has long been a proponent of integrating digital methods, tools and subjects into traditional scholarship and co-founded HASTAC, an organization that has given young scholars, such as myself, the opportunity to interact with other digital humanists (or digital historians or digital media studies–the debate still hasn’t ended) to help understand movements in the field as well as theoretical and practical issues.