David Busch (Department of History)

Digital Scholarship Grant Recipient 2020-2021

Busch, a SAGES teaching fellow in the Department of History and a digital historian, will develop a social network map to visualize how Mahatma Gandhi’s ideas of nonviolence spread across national borders in the 20th century. The first iteration of the project will use digitized collections of Gandhi’s writings to identify the correspondence networks between Gandhi and activists within and beyond India.

Tentatively titled “The Gandhian Social Network,” the project will provide scholars with an accessible digital resource to collaborate and chart new ground in the political, intellectual and transnational history of Gandhian nonviolence. The long-term goal of the project is to develop relevant digital methodologies for other historians studying modern social protest and activism.