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Introducing West African Migration Stories

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...

Making my Dissertation Digital

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,...

The Challenge of Language

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...

The Challenges of the Digital in Digital History

by dglovsky | Feb 19, 2019 | CHI Grad Fellow Post

By any normal standard, I am a relatively tech-savvy person. When it comes to programming, my experience is…minimal. My HTML skills are relatively new and underdeveloped, although growing which each attempt to do something new. My project for CHI focuses on oral...

Teaching Early African History/Studies with a Digital Lens

by dglovsky | Dec 7, 2018 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post

I recently attended a panel on teaching pre-1800 African history using digital humanities. The panel focused on early African history, but some of the presentations ignored the digital humanities portion of the title and only really focused on the pre-1800 part....
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