History Senior Thesis Resources

• Citation Practices Challenge

  A yearlong challenge (2015-2016) organized by Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang, and Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández to urge us to critically reflect on the way we approach referencing the work of others and counter the erasure of Indigenous, Black, brown, trans*, disabled POC, QT*POC, feminist, activist, and disability/crip contributions from our intellectual genealogies..
• Cite Black Women.

  A movement that engages with social media and aesthetic representation in order to push people to critically rethink the politics of knowledge production by engaging in a radical praxis of citation that acknowledges and honors Black women’s transnational intellectual production.
• Gender Balance Assessment Tool (GBAT)

  Women are cited less often than men, and are also underrepresented in syllabi. Yet even well-meaning scholars may find that they have difficulty assessing how gender-balanced their bibliographies and syllabi really are. This tool aims to help with that, by automating the process of evaluating the (probabilistic) gender of each name and then providing an estimate of what percentage of the authors on a syllabus are women.
• The Importance of Citational Justice

  Video tutorial and instructor's guide created by the University of Arizona Libraries.
• Citational Politics - Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR)

  CLEAR has a Citational Politics portal that includes a blog post series, teaching module, and bibliography.
• Citational Politics - Pratt Institute Libraries

  Video and bibliography to learn more about the politics of citation.

Unless specified by your professor or academic discipline, you have a choice when selecting a citation manager. Use the charts linked below to see an overview of the features and functionality of a few options.