Simon James Appleford, BA, PhD

Associate Professor

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Contact

SimonAppleford@creighton.edu
College of Arts and Sciences
History
American Studies
DHHC - Dowling Hall/Humanities Center

Simon James Appleford, BA, PhD

Associate Professor

I am an Associate Professor of History at Creighton University and Director of Creighton’s Digital Humanities Initiative. My research focuses on the intersections of digital humanities, visual culture, and 19th- and 20th-century U.S. cultural and intellectual history. I have published two books: Drawing Liberalism: Herblock\'s Political Cartoons in Postwar America and Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities. I am also leading a collaboration between Creighton, the Joslyn Art Museum, and Nebraska Indian Community College to digitize materials related to an 1832–1834 expedition led by the German Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied into the American Midwest.

Department

History

Position

Associate Professor

Books

  • Hankins Gabriel, Appleford Simon, Lang Anouk, Digital futures of graduate study in the humanities 2024
  • Drawing Liberalism
    Appleford SIMON, List of Illustrations [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Drawing Liberalism
    Appleford SIMON, NOTHING MORE THAN INFLAMMATORY PROPAGANDA [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Drawing Liberalism
    Appleford SIMON, I’M AFRAID TO LOOK [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Drawing Liberalism
    Appleford SIMON, THE FEAR-AND-SMEAR RACKETEERS [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Drawing Liberalism
    Appleford SIMON, EPILOGUE [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Drawing Liberalism
    Appleford SIMON, AN UNINHIBITED VOICE OF LIBERALISM [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Drawing Liberalism
    Appleford SIMON, THE MAJOR MORAL ISSUE OF OUR TIME [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Drawing Liberalism
    Appleford SIMON, THAT SON-OF-A-BITCH HERBLOCK [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Drawing Liberalism
    Appleford SIMON, Front Matter [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Drawing Liberalism
    Appleford SIMON, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Drawing Liberalism
    Appleford SIMON, NOTES [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Drawing Liberalism
    Appleford SIMON, INTRODUCTION [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Drawing Liberalism
    Appleford SIMON, SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Drawing Liberalism
    Appleford SIMON, INDEX [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Drawing Liberalism
    Appleford SIMON, Table of Contents [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Digital Humanities Workshops
    Guiliano Jennifer, Appleford Simon, 198Transitioning Synchronous Workshops Into Asynchronous Digital Resources [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Appleford SIMON, DRAWING LIBERALISM : HERBLOCK'S POLITICAL CARTOONS IN POSTWAR AMERICA 2023
  • Toward the Meeting of the Waters
    Burton Orville Vernon, Burton Beatrice, Appleford Simon, Seeds in Unlikely Soil [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Appleford Simon, Fouché Rayvon, Lang Clarence, Barrett James, Harris Dianne, Burton Orville V, Offensive weapons: Herblock and the visual rhetoric of postwar liberalism 2014
  • Ubiquitous Learning
    Burton Orville Vernon, Onderdonk James, Appleford Simon J., History [Book Chapter] 2010
  • Burton Orville Vernon, Onderdonk James, Appleford Simon J., History The Role of Technology in the Democratization of Learning [Book Chapter] 2009

Publications

  • The Southern quarterly
    Burton Orville, Appleford Simon, Digital History Memories
    58:1/2, p. 120 - 161 2020
  • Current research in digital history
    Appleford Simon, Revealing Political Bias: A Macroanalysis of 8,480 Herblock Cartoons
    1 2018
  • Journal of student research (Houston, Tex.)
    Schrader Abigail, Appleford Simon, Brains Behind Broadcast Behavior-The Science of British WWII Homefront Propoganda 2017
  • Data Base for Advances in Information Systems
    Appleford Simon J., Bottum James R., Thatcher Jason B., Understanding the social web
    45:1, p. 29 - 37 2014
  • The Journal of American history (Bloomington, Ind.)
    Appleford Simon, Burton Vernon, Schrum Kelly, Digital History: Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research, http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu
    94:4, p. 1329 - 1331 2008
  • The Journal of American history (Bloomington, Ind.)
    Appleford Simon, Burton Vernon, Digital History: Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research
    94:4, p. 1329 - 1331 2008

Grants

  • The Natural Face of North America: A Public Portal to the Maximilian-Bodmer Collection at Joslyn Art Museum/Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities/NEH

  • Offensive Weapons: Herblock and the Limits of Postwar Liberalism/Sponsor: CURAS Magis Investigatio Research Award/MIRA

  • Offensive Weapons: Herblock and the Limits of Postwar Liberalism/Sponsor: CURAS Magis Investigatio Research Award/MIRA