by neejerch | Aug 11, 2015 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info, Uncategorized
It has been a busy summer plugging away on Wheelwomen at Work, my digital humanities project mapping women’s involvement in the nineteenth-century bicycle industry. This summer I completed two major tasks. First, I nearly doubled the amount of pins on the map....
by neejerch | May 4, 2015 | CHI Announcements, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
I am excited to announce that Wheelwomen at Work is live! Over the past academic year, I’ve been researching, writing and developing my CHI digital humanities project Wheelwomen at Work: Mapping Women’s Involvment in the Nineteenth-Century Bicycle Industry. For my...
by neejerch | Apr 16, 2015 | CHI Project Info
This month I’ve been making a ton of progress on my project, including building my actual map. I often hear people on campus, especially my students, identify as a “visual person.” Personally, I’ve never felt like I work that way. I think of myself more as an auditory...
by neejerch | Mar 16, 2015 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Project Info, Uncategorized
This spring break I was lucky enough to visit the Library of Congress in Washington, DC to conduct research on my dissertation, and to specifically look at materials for my CHI project. At the LOC, I worked my way through thousands of pages of documents from the...
by neejerch | Feb 17, 2015 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Project Info, Uncategorized
Nineteenth-century patents may not seem like the most thrilling subject for scholarly inquiry, but they tell us much more than just meets the eye. Most of us would probably assume that white men filed the majority of patents in the nineteenth-century United States....
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