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May 28, 2026 🎙️ We’ve released Listening to Auraria’s Past, an audio walking tour of Denver’s old Westside neighborhood and the displacement of its residents in the 1970s to build the Auraria campus.
Apr 10, 2026 🏆 I’ve received the 2026 Award for Excellence in Research at CU Denver, a university-wide award for outstanding research and creative work across all non-tenure-track faculty.
Mar 27, 2026 📣 New Data Visualization: How Fast Was The Mail? + ✏️ Companion Post: “Bottlenecks, Side Quests, and the Calculus of Historical Research”
Dec 11, 2025 ✏️ New post: “Generative AI and History in 2025”
Dec 11, 2025 📣 “Queer Cartographies: Mapping LGBTQ Travel Guides,” a project with Eric Gonzaba, Annelise Heinz, and Amanda Regan, has received a $5,000 grant from the LGBTQ+ Heritage Alliance.
Jul 03, 2025 🏆 An article I co-authored with Annelise Heinz, “Separated, but far from alone”: Forging Lesbian Networks in the 1970s–1980s, has received the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize for best article in the fields of the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality.
Jul 01, 2025 🏆 An article I co-authored with Annelise Heinz, “Separated, but far from alone”: Forging Lesbian Networks in the 1970s–1980s, has received the Louis Knott Koontz Memorial Award.
May 02, 2025 🏆 An article I co-authored with Annelise Heinz, “Separated, but far from alone”: Forging Lesbian Networks in the 1970s–1980s, has received the 2025 Barbara “Penny” Kanter Award from the Western Association of Women’s Historians.
Oct 25, 2024 ✏️ New post: “A Large Language Model Walks Into an Archive…”
Oct 22, 2024 📣 “Auraria As We Remember It,” a proposed edited volume by Rachel Gross, Michelle Comstock, and myself, has received a $10,000 Arts and Humanities Seed Grant from the CU Denver Office of Research Services.
Jul 23, 2024 📖 An article I co-authored with Annelise Heinz, “Separated, but far from alone”: Forging Lesbian Networks in the 1970s–1980s, has been published as part of a special issue on Feminist Histories in the Pacific Historical Review.
May 28, 2024 ✏️ New post: “Professor vs. ChatGPT: The Grading Showdown”
Mar 06, 2024 ✏️ New blog post at ThinqStudio: “Teaching in the Age of Generative AI”
Aug 22, 2023 📣 Data Advocacy for All was profiled by CLAS Office of Creative and Research Activities: “Cameron Blevins - Humanities and Data Science and Access for All”