PRINT

PRINT is excited and eager to share information and results from our project. Below you will find a comprehensive list of our findings through publications, presentations, and more.

Conference Presentations

Beiler, Rosalind and Adaeze Nwigwe, Research Seminar. “The Ties That Bind: Examining Cross-Border Early Modern Anabaptists’ Networks Through PRINT – People, Religion, Information Networks, and Travel.” Early Anabaptism in Global Perspectives, International Conference, Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown, PA, July 22, 2025.

Freeman-DePelisi, Kailey. “Seeking Refuge: Exploring the Voyages made by Anabaptist Women in the Early 18th Century to Escape Religious Persecution.” Early Anabaptism in Global Perspectives, International Conference, Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown, PA, July 23, 2025.

Jordan, Brendan. “’Simple Before Men’: Benedict Brechtbuhl as a Champion of Swiss Mennonite Migration to Pennsylvania in the Early Eighteenth Century.” Early Anabaptism in Global Perspectives, International Conference, Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown, PA, July 23, 2025.

Beiler, Rosalind. “Contextualizing People, Places, and Themes in early Modern Religious Letters: Historical Challenges and Digital Solutions.” Letters Across the Sea: Navigating Ambiguities in Digital Editing of Historical Correspondence, International Workshop, Franckesche Stiftungen, Halle, Germany. July 4, 2025.

Miller, Brook. “Small Stories and the Question of Narrative as a Mode of Historical Knowing.” Letters Across the Sea: Navigating Ambiguities in Digital Editing of Historical Correspondence, International Workshop, University of Trier, Trier, Germany. July 7, 2025

Benedict, Joshua. “Linking PRINT’s People and Places to the Wider World through LOD.” Florida Digital Humanities Consortium, Orlando, Florida. September 19, 2024.

Campana, Kayla. “Designing a Flexible Geospatial Mapping Platform:Challenges, Key Values, Tools and Processes.” Florida Digital Humanities Consortium, Orlando, Florida. September 19, 2024.

Giroux, Amy Larner. “Enhancing PRINT’s Metadata Pipeline with the Zooniverse Crowdsourcing Platform.” Florida Digital Humanities Consortium, Orlando, Florida. September 19, 2024.

Harper, Justin. “Creating research interfaces to render meaningful networks from complex information.” Florida Digital Humanities Consortium, Orlando, Florida. September 19, 2024.

Rivera, Pauline. “Thematic Descriptive Protocols: Creating Standardized Keywords across Repositories.” Florida Digital Humanities Consortium, Orlando, Florida. September 19, 2024.

Wolf, Casey. “(re)Creating Early Modern Transatlantic Networks of Communication.” Florida Digital Humanities Consortium, Orlando, Florida. September 19, 2024.

Woods, Maggie. “The Small Worlds of Swarthmoor: A Network Analysis of the Abraham Quaker Manuscripts.” Florida Digital Humanities Consortium, Orlando, Florida. September 19, 2024.

Bellenger, Marissa. “Strengthening Quality Assurance in Digital Humanities Projects: Using Inter Annotator Agreement for Improved Protocols and Reliability.” Digitorium, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. September 18-20, 2024.

Beiler, Rosalind J. “Shared Knowledge and Resources: Collaborating to Uncover the Complexity of Early Modern Religious Networks.” The Alliance for Digital Humanities Organization (ADHO) Conference, George Mason, Virginia, August 6-9, 2024.

Fine, Randi. “Connecting Citizen Scholars to the Past: Crowdsourcing Transcriptions with PRINT’s Zooniverse Project.” Florida Conference of Historians Annual Meeting, Melbourne, Florida. January 27, 2024.

Jordan, Brendan. “Benevolent’s Mirror: The Resettlement of Swiss Mennonites in Early Eighteenth Century Netherlands.” Florida Conference of Historians Annual Meeting, Melbourne, Florida. January 27, 2024.

Nwigwe, Adaeze. “Ill Will: Exploring the Network Behind Ralph Smith’s Last Will and Testament.” Florida Conference of Historians Annual Meeting, Melbourne, Florida. January 27, 2024.

Rodriguez, Natale and Margaret Woods. “Beyond the Oatmeal: Quaker Foodways and Fellowship.” Florida Conference of Historians Annual Meeting, Melbourne, Florida. January 27, 2024.

Beiler, Rosalind. “’Worthy and Dear Friends’: Creating Collaboration through the Letters of Early Modern Minorities.” International Federation of Public Historians, Berlin. August 2022.

Wolf, Casey. “Educational Materials and Citizen Scholars: Empowering Users in Collaborative Scholarship Networks.” International Federation of Public Historians, Berlin. August 2022.

Beiler, Rosalind. “’Sehr Wehrter Freunde Und Brueders in Christo’: Der Einfluss Religioeser Korrsepondenznetzwerke Auf Globale Migrationsfluesse Und Mobilitaetsmuster Im 17. Jahrhunderts (‘Very Worthy Friends and Brothers in Christ’: The Influence of Correspondence Networks on Global Migration Flows and Mobility Patterns in the Seventeenth Century”).” Deutsche Historiker Tag, Munich, October 2021.

Beiler, Rosalind, and Amy Larner Giroux. “Examining the Early Modern World’s Complex Networks of Religious Minorities.” Erlangen, Germany (Virtual), March 2021.

Beiler, Rosalind, and Amy Larner Giroux. “Visualizing Complex Communication Networks in the Early Modern World.” German Historical Institute, Washington D.C., October 2019.

Beiler, Rosalind. “Mobile Lives – Digital Approaches to a World in Motion (Roundtable Participant).” German Historical Institute, Washington D.C., October 2019.

Beiler, Rosalind. “Digitizing Early American Manuscripts: Evoking the Archive? (Roundtable).” Eugene, Oregon, February 2019.

Beiler, Rosalind. “Circles of Friends: The Meaning of Christian Community for Johanna Eleonora von Merlau Petersen.” London, England, July 2014.

Beiler, Rosalind. “Catalogues of Friends: Correspondence Networks among Quakers and Pietists in Early Modern Europe.” University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany, September 2011.

Beiler, Rosalind. “Information Brokers and Mediators: The Role of Diplomats in the Migrations of German-Speaking People, 1670-1720.” Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany, October 2009.

Beiler, Rosalind. “Creating a Christian Community: The Challenge of a Radical Pietism in the Late 17th Century from an Atlantic Perspective.” New York, New York, January 2009.

Beiler, Rosalind. “Dissenting Religious Communication Networks and European Migration, 1660-1730.” Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 2007.

Beiler, Rosalind. “Communication Networks and the Dynamics of Migration, 1660-1730.” Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 2005.

Beiler, Rosalind. “Information Networks and the Dynamics of Migration: Swiss Anabaptist Exiles and Their Host Communities.” Centre for the Study of Human Settlement & Historical Change, Galway, Ireland, June 2005.

Public Presentations

Beiler, Rosalind J. “PRINT: Making Migration Stories Visible.” Legacy Pointe at UCF, Orlando, Florida. January 8, 2025.

Beiler, Rosalind, Amy Larner Giroux and Brook Miller. “PRINT: The Dynamics of Migration in the Early Modern World.” Learning Institute for Elders (LIFE) at UCF. Orlando, FL. Oct. 15, 2024.

Beiler, Rosalind J., Amy Larner Giroux and Brook Miller. “Making History Together: Interdisciplinary Collaboration between CHDR and PRINT.” University of Central Florida, College of Arts & Humanities Dean’s Executive Council Meeting, Orlando, Florida. October 4, 2024.

Workshops

Beiler, Rosalind J. and Kayla Campana. “Handschrift Workshop/ Collaborative Digital Transcription.” Virtual Workshop for Digital History Class, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. May 22, 2025.

Beiler, Rosalind J., Kayla Campana, Bree Cherubini, and Kelsey Resh. “Fathers and Daughters: Reading and Transcribing American Family Letters from the PRINT Portal.” Workshop with Legacy Pointe at UCF, Orlando, Florida. March 5, 2025.

Beiler, Rosalind J., Sarah Bousfield, Kayla Campana, and Adaeze Nwigwe. “PRINT Paleography and Transcription Workshop.” Workshop with LIFE at UCF. UCF Center for Digital Humanities and Research, Orlando, Florida. February 4, 2025.

Beiler, Rosalind J. and Adaeze Nwigwe. “’The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree’: Transcribing Early American Family Letters for the PRINT Portal.” UCF Celebrates the Arts, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, Orlando, Florida, April 4, 2024.

Beiler, Rosalind, and Amy Larner Giroux. “Lesen Historische Briefe (Reading Historical Letters).” Presented at the Mennonitische Familienforschung (Mennonite Family Research Group), Mennonite Historical Society, Weierhof-Bolanden, Germany (Virtual), September 4, 2023.

Beiler, Rosalind, and Amy Larner Giroux. “PRINT Handschrift Workshop – Familienforschung.” Presented at the Mennonitische Familienforschung (Mennonite Family Research Group), Mennonite Historical Society, Weierhof-Bolanden, Germany (Virtual), October 3, 2022.

Beiler, Rosalind. “Intimate Connections: PRINT Transcription Workshop.” Presented at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Virtual), March 16, 2022.

Beiler, Rosalind. “People, Religion, Information Networks, and Travel: Envisioning Dynamic Links between the Local and the Global.” Ephrata Cloister, Ephrata, Pennsylvania (Virtual), February 10, 2022.

Beiler, Rosalind. “PRINT – Dynamic Networks.” Young Center, Elizabethtown College, Elizabeth Town, Pennsylvania, September 21, 2021.

Beiler, Rosalind. “Digitizing the Pemberton Papers.” Presented at the Lapidus Digital Collections Fellowships Symposium, Washington, D.C., September 2019.