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Dr. Lindsey R. Peterson is the Digital Humanities Librarian/Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of South Dakota (Vermillion).
As an educator teaching outside of traditional classroom settings, Dr. Peterson instructs students using authentic, hands-on experiences that engage them in real-world digital scholarly editing projects. Her experiential instruction in digital humanities, documentary editing, and digital archiving furnishes humanities students not only with paid work experience in humanities research but also provides students with a robust foundation in digital and humanistic research methods that prepare them for careers in publishing, editing, archives, research, and other related fields.
Dr. Lindsey R. Peterson is a Digital Humanities Assistant Professor of Practice and Librarian at the University of South Dakota (Vermillion) and the Managing Director of the Society of Civil War Historians. Her research has been published in numerous scholarly journals, including the Journal of the Civil War Era, War & Society, and Civil War History. She is also the winner of several awards and fellowships, including the 2024 Anthony E. Kaye Memorial Essay Award from the Society of Civil War Historians and the Richards Center. Her research examines the intersection of race, gender, and place in western Union Civil War commemorations to reveal how western Unionists remembered and celebrated the American Civil War to bolster their competing visions of western expansion and social order.
Dr. Peterson is also the recipient of numerous federal grants, including two Rediscovering Our Revolutionary Tradition grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), a Digital Humanities Advancement grant from the NEH, a Teaching with Primary Sources grant from the Library of Congress, four Publishing Historical Records in Collaborative Digital Editions grants from the National Historical Publications & Records Commission, and two NEH Preservation and Access grants, among others. She currently serves as the co-director of the Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi scholarly edition (cwrgm.org), which is digitizing, transcribing, and annotating nearly 20,000 records from Mississippi’s governors’ offices and making them freely available online. She also founded and directs the Dakota Territory Papers Project scholarly edition, a born-digital documentary edition of Dakota Territory’s official records.
