An Undue Burden: Race, Gender, and Mobility in Digital Humanities Conferences

This project draws on the Index of DH Conferences compiled by Scott Weingart, Matthew Lincoln, and Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara that covers approximately 60 years of DH conferences, 7300 presentations, 8650 different authors, 1850 institutions, and 8 countries (Lincoln et al., 2021). The objective was to assess how the burden of conference travel— represented by a measure of distance traversed—differs based on race, gender, work type (keynote, paper, workshop, and poster), and previous authorship.