by Ryan Carty | Nov 14, 2019 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
During the summer, I worked with Matthew Handelman on a digital humanities project related to his research on German-Jewish intellectuals in the twentieth century. Matt received a DH@MSU Summer Seed Grant to build a network visualization of the connections between...
by Ryan Carty | Oct 16, 2019 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
This summer, I attended the Tensions of Europe (ToE) conference focused on histories of technology in Europe and the impact of the digital age on contemporary scholarship. The conference was most interesting in encouraging presentations that considered technologies as...
by Ryan Carty | Sep 18, 2019 | Introductions
I am a third year graduate student in the history department where I focus on African history. I am currently pursuing research on animal skins and leatherwork in twentieth-century West Africa. Most of my research is focused in Ghana, though I have taken brief...
by Ryan Carty | Aug 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
This summer, I updated Africa’s Imperial Commodities, a digital history project that explores export data from Africa to Europe. I added a new commodity page that examines the history of gum exports from West Africa. Additionally, I updated other pages to...
by Ryan Carty | May 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
I’m launching Africa’s Imperial Commodities, a digital history project that explores export data from Africa to Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The website includes essays that contextualize the available data and data visualizations that...
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