Lincoln Mullen
Executive Director at George Mason University
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolLincoln Mullen is a historian and digital-humanities leader with 15 years of experience blending nineteenth‑century American religious scholarship with computational text and map analysis. As Executive Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and a professor at George Mason University, he builds open-access, data-driven history projects—from interactive scholarly books to podcasts and educational tools—that aim to democratize historical research. His book America’s Public Bible uses large-scale computational methods to surface how the Bible shaped American public life, and an early prototype of the project won the NEH Chronicling America Data Challenge. A former PI on grants totaling over $2.8M from major funders, he moves between archival history and practical software workflows, contributing to projects like text2vec by improving documentation to make NLP tools more accessible to scholars. Based in Virginia, he combines rigorous archival training (PhD, Brandeis) with a knack for translating technical methods into public-facing history.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, HISTORY, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, HISTORY at Brandeis University
Github Skills (4)
documentation10
text-mining9
word-embeddings8
nlp7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
dselivanov/text2vec
Mar 2016 - Oct 2016
Fast vectorization, topic modeling, distances and GloVe word embeddings in R.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:55 commits, 13 PRs, 37 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Lincoln primarily contributed by revising and updating the documentation throughout the text2vec library. Their work included refining the documentation for datasets, DTMs, GloVe models, iterators, TF and IDF scaling matrices, TCMs, the overall package, and transformation functions. The commits demonstrate a focus on clarifying explanations, correcting typos, and improving the organization of the documentation to better assist users of the library.
k-meansword-embeddingstopic-modelingword2vecnatural-language-processing
lmullen/paulist-missions
Oct 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:62 commits in 4 months
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