Team
Read by people, one event at a time.
DEED is hand-coded. Every event in it was found, dated, and classified by someone on this page — mostly William & Mary undergraduates, working to a shared codebook.
Names and photos go here on the real site
Project managers
Who runs the project
Day-to-day direction: what gets coded, in what order, and to what standard.
- Project managerWilliam & Mary
- Project managerWilliam & Mary
Student leadership
Students who lead a coding team
They train new research assistants, review coding, and own a slice of the record.
- Student leadWilliam & Mary
- Student leadWilliam & Mary
- Student leadWilliam & Mary
Student research assistants
The people who read the sources
Undergraduates who find and date events, code them against the codebook, and check each other's coding.
- Research assistantWilliam & Mary
- Research assistantWilliam & Mary
- Research assistantWilliam & Mary
- Research assistantWilliam & Mary
- Research assistantWilliam & Mary
- Research assistantWilliam & Mary
- Research assistantWilliam & Mary
- Research assistantWilliam & Mary
Alumni
Students who have since graduated
DEED is a multi-year project, and most of the record was built by people who have moved on.
- FRFormer research assistant
- FRFormer research assistant
- FRFormer research assistant
- FRFormer research assistant
- FRFormer research assistant
- FRFormer research assistant
For W&M students
The project takes research assistants each term
No prior coding experience is assumed — the codebook and the category guides are the training. Resources has what the work involves.