Dan Schwartz
Associate Professor Of History
College Station, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDan Schwartz is an Associate Professor of History and Associate Director of the Center for Digital Humanities Research at Texas A&M University with 12 years of academic experience and a PhD from Princeton. He co-directs Syriaca.org, a linked-open-data initiative that has secured over $1M in grant funding and delivers digital cultural-heritage tools such as the SPEAR prosopography and a Syriac Studies ontology. His scholarship bridges late antiquity and digital humanities, authoring monographs and edited volumes on Christian initiation and conversion while building infrastructure that preserves and enables new research on Syriac sources. Based in College Station, he combines traditional philological training (classics, philosophy, religious studies) with practical expertise in linked data and ontology development. Colleagues value him for turning specialized humanities questions into interoperable digital resources that serve an international scholarly community. His work quietly blends archival depth with data-driven methods, making niche historical materials widely discoverable and reusable.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at University of California, Los AngelesDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, History, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, History at Princeton UniversityBA, Philosophy and Religious Studies, BA, Philosophy and Religious Studies at University of California, Santa BarbaraMaster of Arts - MA, Christian Thought, Master of Arts - MA, Christian Thought at Trinity International University
Github Skills (35)
tei10
portal10
commons9
data-repository9
text-encoding9
creative-commons8
xml8
academia8
translation7
metadata7
encoding7
corpus7
appdata6
digital-humanities6
text-analysis5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dlschwartz/sandbox
Sep 2019 - Feb 2026
A place to play
Contributions:27 PRs, 83 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 6 months
placedevelopment-toolsreactlinuxsandbox
srophe/spear-data
Aug 2022 - Feb 2023
Data repository for SPEAR
Contributions:30 commits, 2 PRs, 54 pushes in 5 months
data-repository
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