Tracking History with Version Control

For this blog post, CHI Fellows were given two topics to address: 1) the importance and relevance of version control in cultural heritage projects, or 2) the experience of creating a digital component for a cultural heritage institution. While both are exciting ideas...

Version Control as Archival Practice

It’s Yoyo again. So this time we were asked to consider version control in a heritage project and this is where my mind went: I keep thinking about what “version control” actually means in the context of digital humanities, and what it means to me, and what I...

Scott Bullock | 2025-26 CHI Graduate Fellow

Hello! I am a PhD student in the History Department. I study modern U.S. history and I am especially interested in APIDAA history, immigration history, and legal history. My dissertation concerns changes in U.S. immigration and naturalization law after World War II...

Gungun Islam | 2025-26 CHI Graduate Fellow

Hi everyone! My name is Gungun Islam, and I am a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University. My research examines the everyday experiences of infertility among Muslim women in India, exploring how reproductive suffering is...

Ayaat (Yoyo) Ismail

2025-26 CHI Graduate Fellow Hey everyone! I’m Ayaat Ismail, a third-year PhD student in English at Michigan State with a focus on women and gender studies. I’ve also got certificates in film studies and global studies, and I’m working on a digital...

Bryttany Grimes | 2025-2026 CHI Graduate Fellow

Hello everyone! My name is Bryttany Grimes, and I am a second-year PhD student in the history department. I came to MSU after an 11-year career as a Dispatch Coordinator for an expediting firm. Making the decision to further pursue higher education did not come...

Hello There

Hello everyone! My name is Harry Foster. I’m a third year PhD student in the English Department studying cultural heroism. My interest in this fellowship is in part for job prep reasons. I want to be able have some digital capabilities to stretch what my profile...

ZOU Yun | 2025-2026 CHI Graduate Fellow

Hello everyone! My name is Zou Yun and I am a PhD candidate in the history department. My research interests lie in the gender and environmental history of 20th-century China, and my dissertation explores women’s active participation in transforming nature through...