about.qmd

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title: "Jesse Sadler"
image: profile.jpeg
about:
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  links:
    - icon: github
      text: Github
      href: https://github.com/jessesadler
    - icon: mastodon
      text: Mastodon
      href: https://hachyderm.io/@vivalosburros
    - icon: card-list
      text: CV
      href: sadler-cv.pdf
---

I am a Digital Humanities Trainer and Project Consultant at the University Library at Virginia Tech. I am trained as a historian and received my Ph.D. in European History from UCLA. My historical research focuses on social and familial basis of politics, religion, and early modern capitalism. I have written on sibling relationships and inheritance in mercantile families from Antwerp during the Dutch Revolt.

I am interested in making the tools of Data Science and Digital Humanities more widely accessible to help build open and reproducible research across the Humanities. I am particularly invested in the use of R, but I also dabble with Python and have interest in continuing to expand my digital skills. I am a [Carpentries](https://carpentries.org) instructor and maintainer of the [Data Analysis and Visualization with R for Social Scientists](https://datacarpentry.org/r-socialsci/).