by Titi Kou | Dec 6, 2019 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
At the end of November, I was invited by University Leipzig to attend the first Academic Alumni Forum, the Digitalization of Research, in Germany. As one of the Alumni, I presented my research project “Multiculturalism in the German Football World” on the second day...
by Sandy Burnley | Dec 5, 2019 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
Given it was not that long ago since my last post, I would like to take this opportunity to stay with my last topic and brainstorm new and interesting ways I could approach canonical works. I will say with this current mapping challenge I somehow lucked out enough (or...
by Ryan Carty | Dec 4, 2019 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
In July, the Ghana Studies Association held a conference in Accra. While attending the panels, I thought about how the digital humanities can feature in Ghana Studies scholarship. The conference featured presentations across the humanities and social sciences...
by franc230 | Dec 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
In life, we are often told to do our own thing without thinking about what others think. Be yourself. In academia, the sentiment can often be to do your own thing because what others think is uneducated bull-pucky. This is maybe a bit extreme, but often, consideration...
by Zhang, Liao | Dec 2, 2019 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
I have always found maps of all sorts fascinating. Studying Eurasian history, I have relied on historical maps to try to fathom historical actors’ knowledge of space. In terms of conceptualizing my own CHI project, quite a few scholarly and journalist works that...
by Kyeesha M. Wilcox | Nov 29, 2019 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
TABLE OF CONTENTS: I. Character vs. Nature II. Brief Month Recap III. Weather gods and Spirituality IV. Previous Studies on Storms and Natural Disasters V. What does/could Digital Environmental Humanities Look Like? I. Character vs. Nature Character vs. nature stories...
by willcut2 | Nov 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
Digitized sources make it possible for us to conduct research more easily than ever before. My own research continues to benefit from digital collections such as Michigan State’s own Feeding America project. The New York Public Library’s (NYPL) digital collections of...
by Jeff Painter | Nov 27, 2019 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
Earlier this month, we were challenged to take an openly accessible set of data and use JavaScript to visualize that data in interesting ways. All of this information was put into a webpage that we had to build with the help of a bootstrap theme. As a person with...
by swayampr | Nov 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
One of the most exciting parts of the CHI Fellowship experience are the weekly challenges. A challenge I really dread is anything involving JavaScript. During my first tenure as a CHI fellow, I assiduously avoided JS. I happily built the HTML code ground up, broke...
by Autumn Painter | Nov 25, 2019 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
Public outreach and engagement is an essential part of archaeological research. For the past year and a half, I have served as the Campus Archaeologist for the Michigan State University Campus Archaeology Program (CAP). One of the projects that the Campus Archaeology...
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