by Bernard C. Moore | Jan 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
My past couple of posts have been more on the political and ethical side of digitizing materials for the Namibia Digital Repository. This post will approach the project from the other side: the process of digitization. For those who are conducting historical research,...
by Lisa Bright | Jan 28, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
As Katy mentioned in our recent Digital Archaeology Institute blog post, she and I have decided to take our project in a different direction. We originally proposed a project called ossuaryKB, a mortuary method knowledge base. However, as we’ve been working toward the...
by Nikki Silva | Jan 27, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
Creating the Interactive Map For the past two weeks, as Autumn Beyer worked on coding our site, I have been working on the interactive map for our joint CHI Fellowship project – Mapping Morton Village. I had some problems at the beginning, including a computer...
by Autumn Painter | Jan 26, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
Mapping Morton Village — writing the basic code for the website. For the past two weeks, I have been working on the code for my joint CHI Fellowship project with Nikki Silva: Mapping Morton Village. We knew the general structure of what we wanted the site to...
by Tos_Ram | Dec 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
For my CHI project this year, I will be continuing work on my project The Xicano Cookbook, a digital essay documenting Xicano culture in the Great Lakes region. With a special emphasis on food practice, visual art, and oral history, it articulates the ways in which...
by Bernard C. Moore | Dec 19, 2015 | CHI Project Info
The politics of publishing in African studies are controversial and problematic. This is the dilemma: foreign researchers are able to obtain more funds than African-based academics to conduct often very innovative research projects. In order to obtain tenure, and...
by farleyj7 | Dec 18, 2015 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
“They [the media] just referred to it as a riot. Down on the ground it looked like a rebellion. But the media and the power structure had a lot of things wrong,” said Ed Vaughn, activist and businessman in Detroit.[1] This is my story: Detroit 1967 is an oral history...
by wargojon | Dec 18, 2015 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
As new(er) communicative landscapes emerge, humanities educators and research in the teaching of cultural heritage have enthusiastically embraced digital and visual culture. From more (g)local understandings of cosmopolitanism to understanding how locative literacies...
by Sara Bijani | Dec 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
I’ve been taking my comprehensive exams over the course of this semester, which provides a strange and exhausting opportunity to really step back and think about the state of my field of research, as well as the ways that field has historically been presented to...
by mcgrat85 | Dec 8, 2015 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
As a CHI Fellow, I’m undertaking a large-scale text analysis of the Armed Services Editions, a collection of novels sent to US Soldiers during WWII to “fight the war on ideas,” to consider issues of politics and literary form. I first stumbled on the...
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