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PRINT is excited and eager to share information and results from our project. Below you will find a comprehensive list of our findings through publications, presentations, and more.

Publications

Beiler, Rosalind. “Information Brokers and Mediators: The Role of Diplomats in the Migrations of German-Speaking People, 1709-1711.” In A Peculiar Mixture: German-Language Cultures and Identities in Eighteenth-Century North America, edited by Jan Stievermann and Oliver Scheiding, 43–57. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013.

Beiler, Rosalind. “Migration and Loss of Spiritual Community: The Case of Daniel Falckner and Anna Maria Schuchart.” In Enduring Loss in Early Modern Germany, edited by Lynne Tatlock, 369–95. Leiden: Brill, 2010.

Beiler, Rosalind. “Dissenting Religious Communication Networks and Migration, 1660-1710.” In Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500-1825, edited by Bernard Bailyn, 210–36. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2009.

Beiler, Rosalind. “Information Networks and the Dynamics of Migration: Swiss Anabaptist Exiles and Their Host Communities.” In Religious Refugees in Europe, Asia and North America (6th - 21st Centuries), edited by Susanne Lachenicht, 81–91. Münster: Lit Verlag, 2007.

Beiler, Rosalind. “Bridging the Gap: Cultural Mediators and the Structure of Transatlantic Communication.” In Atlantic Communications: The Media in American and German History from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century, edited by Norbert Finzsch and Ursula Lehmkuhl, 45–64. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2004.

Beiler, Rosalind. “Distributing Aid to Believers in Need: The Religious Foundations of Transatlantic Migration.” Pennsylvania History, Special Supplemental Issue, no. 64 (1997): 73–87.

Conference Presentations

Beiler, Rosalind J. “PRINT: Making Migration Stories Visible.” Legacy Pointe at UCF, Orlando, Florida. January 8, 2025.

Beiler, Rosalind J., Amy Larner Giroux and Brook Miller. “Making History Together: Interdisciplinary Collaboration between CHDR and PRINT.” University of Central Florida, College of Arts & Humanities Dean’s Executive Council Meeting, Orlando, Florida. October 4, 2024.

Benedict, Joshua. “Linking PRINT’s People and Places to the Wider World through LOD.” Florida Digital Humanities Consortium, Orlando, Florida. September 19, 2024.

Campana, Kayla. “Designing a Flexible Geospatial Mapping Platform:​Challenges, Key Values, Tools and Processes.” Florida Digital Humanities Consortium, Orlando, Florida. September 19, 2024.

Giroux, Amy Larner. “Enhancing PRINT’s Metadata Pipeline with the Zooniverse Crowdsourcing Platform.” Florida Digital Humanities Consortium, Orlando, Florida. September 19, 2024.

Harper, Justin. “Creating research interfaces to render meaningful ​networks from complex information.” Florida Digital Humanities Consortium, Orlando, Florida. September 19, 2024.

Rivera, Pauline. “Thematic Descriptive Protocols: Creating Standardized Keywords across Repositories.” Florida Digital Humanities Consortium, Orlando, Florida. September 19, 2024.

Wolf, Casey. “(re)Creating Early Modern Transatlantic Networks of Communication.” Florida Digital Humanities Consortium, Orlando, Florida. September 19, 2024.

Woods, Maggie. “The Small Worlds of Swarthmoor: ​A Network Analysis of the Abraham Quaker Manuscripts.” Florida Digital Humanities Consortium, Orlando, Florida. September 19, 2024.

Bellenger, Marissa. “Strengthening Quality Assurance in Digital Humanities Projects: Using Inter Annotator Agreement for Improved Protocols and Reliability.” Digitorium, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. September 18-20, 2024.

Beiler, Rosalind J. “Shared Knowledge and Resources: Collaborating to Uncover the Complexity of Early Modern Religious Networks.” The Alliance for Digital Humanities Organization (ADHO) Conference, George Mason, Virginia, August 6-9, 2024.

Fine, Randi. “Connecting Citizen Scholars to the Past: Crowdsourcing Transcriptions with PRINT’s Zooniverse Project.” Florida Conference of Historians Annual Meeting, Melbourne, Florida. January 27, 2024.

Jordan, Brendan. “Benevolent’s Mirror: The Resettlement of Swiss Mennonites in Early Eighteenth Century Netherlands.” Florida Conference of Historians Annual Meeting, Melbourne, Florida. January 27, 2024.

Nwigwe, Adaeze. “Ill Will: Exploring the Network Behind Ralph Smith’s Last Will and Testament.” Florida Conference of Historians Annual Meeting, Melbourne, Florida. January 27, 2024.

Rodriguez, Natale and Margaret Woods. “Beyond the Oatmeal: Quaker Foodways and Fellowship.” Florida Conference of Historians Annual Meeting, Melbourne, Florida. January 27, 2024.

Beiler, Rosalind, and Amy Giroux. “'Sehr Wehrter Freunde Und Brueders in Christo’: Der Einfluss Religioeser Korrsepondenznetzwerke Auf Globale Migrationsfluesse Und Mobilitaetsmuster Im 17. Jahrhunderts (’Worthy and Dear Friends’: Creating Collaboration through the Letters of Early Modern Minorities).” Berlin, Germany, August 2022.

Beiler, Rosalind, and Zachary Stoltzfus. “Refugees: Reframing the ‘Hochstetler Massacre’ of 1757.” Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, May 2022.

Beiler, Rosalind, and Amy Giroux. “Examining the Early Modern World’s Complex Networks of Religious Minorities.” Erlangen, Germany (Virtual), March 2021.

Beiler, Rosalind. “'Sehr Wehrter Freunde Und Brueders in Christo’: Der Einfluss Religioeser Korrsepondenznetzwerke Auf Globale Migrationsfluesse Und Mobilitaetsmuster Im 17. Jahrhunderts ('Very Worthy Friends and Brothers in Christ’: The Influence of Correspondence Networks on Global Migration Flows and Mobility Patterns in the Seventeenth Century”),” September 2020 (Postponed until October 2021 - COVID19).

Beiler, Rosalind. “Visualizing Complex Communication Networks in the Early Modern World.” German Historical Institute, Washington D.C., October 2019.

Beiler, Rosalind. “Digitizing Early American Manuscripts: Evoking the Archive? (Roundtable).” Eugene, Oregon, February 2019.

Beiler, Rosalind. “Circles of Friends: The Meaning of Christian Community for Johanna Eleonora von Merlau Petersen.” London, England, July 2014.

Beiler, Rosalind. “Catalogues of Friends: Correspondence Networks among Quakers and Pietists in Early Modern Europe.” University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany, September 2011.

Beiler, Rosalind. “Information Brokers and Mediators: The Role of Diplomats in the Migrations of German-Speaking People, 1670-1720.” Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany, October 2009.

Beiler, Rosalind. “Mobile Lives – Digital Approaches to a World in Motion (Roundtable Participant).” German Historical Institute, Washington D.C., October 2019.

Beiler, Rosalind. “Creating a Christian Community: The Challenge of a Radical Pietism in the Late 17th Century from an Atlantic Perspective.” New York, New York, January 2009.

Beiler, Rosalind. “Dissenting Religious Communication Networks and European Migration, 1660-1730.” Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 2007.

Beiler, Rosalind. “Communication Networks and the Dynamics of Migration, 1660-1730.” Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 2005.

Beiler, Rosalind. “Information Networks and the Dynamics of Migration: Swiss Anabaptist Exiles and Their Host Communities.” Centre for the Study of Human Settlement & Historical Change, Galway, Ireland, June 2005.

Workshops

Beiler, Rosalind J., Kayla Campana, Bree Cherubini, and Kelsey Resh. “Fathers and Daughters: Reading and Transcribing American Family Letters from the PRINT Portal.” Workshop with Legacy Pointe at UCF, Orlando, Florida. March 5, 2025.

Beiler, Rosalind J., Sarah Bousfield, Kayla Campana, and Adaeze Nwigwe. “PRINT Paleography and Transcription Workshop.” Workshop with LIFE at UCF. UCF Center for Digital Humanities and Research, Orlando, Florida. February 4, 2025.

“'The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree’: Transcribing Early American Family Letters for the PRINT Portal.” To be presented at UCF Celebrates the Arts, DeVos Room, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, Orlando, Florida, April 4, 2024.

Beiler, Rosalind. “Lesen Historische Briefe (Reading Historical Letters).” Presented at the Mennonitische Familienforschung (Mennonite Family Research Group), Mennonite Historical Society, Weierhof-Bolanden, Germany (Virtual), September 4, 2023.

Beiler, Rosalind. “PRINT Handschrift Workshop – Familienforschung.” Presented at the Mennonitische Familienforschung (Mennonite Family Research Group), Mennonite Historical Society, Weierhof-Bolanden, Germany (Virtual), October 3, 2022.

Beiler, Rosalind. “Intimate Connections: PRINT Transcription Workshop.” Presented at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Virtual), March 16, 2022.

Beiler, Rosalind. “People, Religion, Information Networks, and Travel: Envisioning Dynamic Links between the Local and the Global.” Ephrata Cloister, Ephrata, Pennsylvania (Virtual), February 10, 2022.

Beiler, Rosalind, and Amy Giroux. “PRINT – Dynamic Networks.” Young Center, Elizabethtown College, Elizabeth Town, Pennsylvania, September 21, 2021.

Beiler, Rosalind, and Amy Giroux. “Digitizing the Pemberton Papers.” Presented at the Lapidus Digital Collections Fellowships Symposium, Washington, D.C., September 2019.