On Version Control

In general, regarding digital projects, it seems like common sense to say that version control in cultural heritage projects is both important and relevant. Version control can bring greater efficiency through better organization. In recent exercises, we used GitHub...

The Power of Cultural Heritage- Bryttany Grimes

In this blog post, I will reflect a bit about my personal experience with entering the digital history space and the new insights I gained while creating a digital component for a cultural heritage institution. One of our team challenges as a CHI fellow was to create...

Tracking History with Version Control

For this blog post, CHI Fellows were given two topics to address: 1) the importance and relevance of version control in cultural heritage projects, or 2) the experience of creating a digital component for a cultural heritage institution. While both are exciting ideas...

Version Control as Archival Practice

It’s Yoyo again. So this time we were asked to consider version control in a heritage project and this is where my mind went: I keep thinking about what “version control” actually means in the context of digital humanities, and what it means to me, and what I...

Scott Bullock | 2025-26 CHI Graduate Fellow

Hello! I am a PhD student in the History Department. I study modern U.S. history and I am especially interested in APIDAA history, immigration history, and legal history. My dissertation concerns changes in U.S. immigration and naturalization law after World War II...

Gungun Islam | 2025-26 CHI Graduate Fellow

Hi everyone! My name is Gungun Islam, and I am a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University. My research examines the everyday experiences of infertility among Muslim women in India, exploring how reproductive suffering is...