by Emily Nisch | May 8, 2024 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
In the early 1900’s, images of Native American Boarding Schools were circulating around the United States in the form of postcards. My CHI project, Mapping Native American Boarding School Postcards, explores how far these images were traveling. Why postcards?...
by Emily Nisch | Feb 27, 2024 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
In my last post I wrote about preparing to build a web map to illustrate the spatial reach of postcards featuring images of Native American Boarding Schools. Good news: the map is coming along nicely! In this post, I’ll share my process for creating a web map....
by Emily Nisch | Feb 12, 2024 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
In my last post, I wrote about what I was hoping to develop for my final project as a CHI Fellow. I planned to create a digital archive for materials associated with the historical Mt Pleasant Indian Industrial School. Instead, I will be building a web map that...
by Emily Nisch | Dec 15, 2023 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
Last Friday the CHI fellows presented our ideas for what we’ll be working on for the rest of the year. I was torn between two ideas, but eventually settled on one that will be a greater investment in my future dissertation work: a digital archive for digitized...
by Emily Nisch | Dec 9, 2023 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
Hello! I’m Emily Nisch, a second-year archaeology PhD student, focusing on digital archaeology, cultural heritage, and community-based participatory methods. My research looks at the material culture of Native American boarding schools and asks how digitization...
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