Jeri Wieringa

Affiliate Faculty, Department of History and Art History, George Mason University  

Jeri Wieringa, PhD (@jerielizabeth) is an Affiliate Faculty member with the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University. A digital historian, her work is situated at the intersection of history and data science. Her research examines the cultural history of religious movements in the United States; computational text analysis in historical research; and the infrastructure needed for the success of digital scholarship, particularly methods for publishing and archiving computationally intensive digital scholarship in ways that are reproducible and sustainable. Her dissertation, A Gospel of Health and Salvation: Modeling the Religious Culture of Seventh-day Adventism, 1843-1920 <http://dissertation.jeriwieringa.com/>, uses topic modeling to explore the role of beliefs about the end of time in the development of the religious culture of Seventh-day Adventism. She earned her MAR in the History of Christianity from Yale Divinity School, and her BA in English and Philosophy from Calvin College.