Mapping What Is/Isn’t There

As a new fellow, I’m still getting a sense of what this all means, so please excuse the LiveJournal nature of the first few posts. Mapping, in my discipline, means something different than it does in most contexts. Essentially, mapping is an acknowledgment of...

Eric Rodriguez- New CHI Fellow

Hello! My name is Eric Manuel Rodriguez and I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student with Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures Department. I am interested in the decolonial possibility of indigenous frameworks in the instruction of writing. Broadly, I’m attuned to some of...

Digital Project Presentation

This past weekend I attended NAVSA to present the little bit I have built on QGIS. I map nonhuman animals across Victorian fiction, along with their human companions. I incorporate various attributes into my database such as race, class, breed, gender, ability, etc.,...

Food Mapping in Digital Historical Research

The title page of Malinda Russell’s A Domestic Cook Book: Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen (1866). Published in Paw Paw, Michigan I am a visual person. I thrive off of color and aesthetics. For me, writing words is just one part...

Cultural Heritage and Popular Culture

This year my project in CHI is aimed towards allowing me to try and think through questions of cultural heritage and popular culture, while creating a project that attempts to interpret a series of dramatic changes within a set spatial boundary over time. Much of this...

Some Thoughts on the GitHub Challenge

I resorted to GitHub many a time when I took a geography class and learned how to use some python modules to facilitate geospatial data processing. Great contents and programming resources organized and shared by some GitHub users impressed me. I, however, used GitHub...

Digital Tools and Presentation Narratives

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...

Re-learning/Un-learning

Coming back to CHI, I realize how enjoyable the fellowship is, especially as a space where we break and un-break things together. During my first time as a CHI fellow, I was especially afraid of breaking things. This time around, I am enjoying breaking things and...

Git & GitHub related Notes

When I first attended the digital humanities summer institute in 2018, I noticed that many people put a half-cat/half-octopus sticker on their laptops. I didn’t think too much about it since I was constantly overwhelmed by all the new terms, conversations,...

Building a Vision

The fellowship this year has been very eventful and a lot of fun. So far, I worked with James and Kyeesha to come up with a vision document for incorporating virtual reality (VR) into the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Though I believe none of us are experts in the...