Cameron Blevins

Ph.D., History, Stanford University, 2009-2015

B.A., History, Pomona College, 2004-2008

Cameron Blevins is Associate Teaching Professor in the History Department and Director of Digital Initiatives for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, where he teaches courses in US History and digital humanities. He also administers the Digital Studies Certificate, an initiative to help students develop computational skills while critically exploring the relationship between those technologies and wider society.

Cameron's book, Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West (Oxford University Press, 2021), uses digital mapping to uncover the full reach of the nineteenth-century postal network and the ways it shaped the western United States. A leader in the field of spatial history and digital history, Cameron explores the application of computational methods such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), data visualization, and text mining to the process of researching and teaching history. Cameron's work has appeared in the Journal of American History, Pacific Historical Review, Modern American History, and Digital Humanities Quarterly. 

You can find out more about Cameron's work at: https://cblevins.github.io/  

Cameron Blevins and Annelise Heinz, “‘Separated, but Far from Alone’: Forging Lesbian Networks in the 1970s–1980s,” Pacific Historical Review 93, no. 3 (August 1, 2024): 417–44.

Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021).

Cameron Blevins and Christy Hyman, “Digital History and the Civil War Era,” Journal of the Civil War Era, Vol 12, No. 1 (March 2022).

“Sound and Community: ‘Singing Box 331’ as Digital History,” William and Mary Quarterly, 77, no. 3 (July 2020). [online]

“Into the Virtual Stacks,” Modern American History, 2, no. 2 (July 2019). [online]

“Women and Federal Officeholding in the Late Nineteenth-Century U.S.” Current Research in Digital History, vol. 2 (2019). [online]

“Digital History’s Perpetual Future Tense,” in Debates in Digital Humanities 2016, Matthew K. Gold and Lauren Klein, eds. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016). [online]

Cameron Blevins and Lincoln Mullen, “Jane, John . . . Leslie? A Historical Method for Algorithmic Gender Prediction,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 9.3 (2015). [online]

“Space, Nation, and the Triumph of Region: A View of the World from Houston,” Journal of American History, 101, no. 1 (June 2014), 122-147. [online][color pdf]

HIST 1362: US History Since 1876

HIST 3031: Theory and Practice of History: An Introduction to the Major

HIST 3260/5260 | COMM 3081/5081: Introduction to Digital Studies

HIST 4212/5212: Civil War & Reconstruction

HIST 4261/5261: Working With Data

HIST 4839: History Seminar