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Andrew J. Torget is a historian of nineteenth-century America at the University of North Texas, where he is establishing a new center for digital scholarship. A veteran of pioneering work in the digital humanities, including the "Valley of the Shadow Project" at the University of Virginia, Andrew served as the founding director of the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond. Andrew's own digital projects have been featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, and attracted the attention of Google.
His scholarship has been listed as among “the best and most important new work” in the developing digital history medium and Andrew has been a featured speaker on the digital humanities at Harvard, Stanford, Rice, and the National Archives in Washington, D. C. Andrew is currently working on several digital humanities projects, and a book titled Cotton Empire: Slavery, the Texas Borderlands, and the Origins of the Mexican-American War.