by plemonsa | May 10, 2019 | CHI Fellowship Program
MapMorph: Teaching Human Variation is pedagogical tool for teaching the history and implications of race theory in biological anthropology, as well as the causative forces controlling human variation (climate and genetics). The website describes how climate is known...
by franc230 | May 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
CHIMIRA is a metadata schema created for the management and description of cultural heritage assets within an archaeological purview. This metadata schema was incorporated into a digital repository for MSU collections. While the digital repository has been...
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...
by dglovsky | May 10, 2019 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
The border post at Canhamina in Guinea-Bissau, at the border with Senegal When I first started the CHI Fellowship, I had dreams of mapping the migration of all of the people I spoke with during the course of my field work. I interviewed over 350 people, and probably...
by TaylorPanczak | May 9, 2019 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
I am excited to finally launch the “Peruvian Origins Informatics Project” for public viewing. This website was designed to illustrate material culture of the pre-ceramic inter-zonal connection between the highlands and coast of southern Peru. Within the...
by franc230 | Apr 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
The metadata scheme for my digital repository is finished and entered into KORA. There is now officially a place to enter data from the MSU archaeological collections online, and I am ecstatic. There is, however, still the fear that what I built may have hidden...
by holteri1 | Apr 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
I’ve often complained about introductory-level tutorials that operate under the assumption that you know something about programming. While in some cases I’ve successfully worked through a particularly difficult tool or explanation, ultimately what I’ve learned is:...
by dglovsky | Apr 17, 2019 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
Have you ever tried to explain your dissertation to your family? Your students? Strangers or acquaintances you barely know? This is a trying task. My dissertation focuses on mobility and migration between four different West African countries (Senegal, Gambia,...
by holteri1 | Apr 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
As a historian, most of my work – reading, writing, revising – is conducted alone. Feedback especially takes long periods of time and varies between professors and colleagues. Papers often go through conferences, editing, and rejection before you can...
by dglovsky | Mar 29, 2019 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
When I decided to use my CHI Fellowship to chronicle and disseminate the stories of individual migrants, my greatest question was the problem of language. My wider research focuses on the experience of migrants and the wider significance of migrants in southern...
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