Hello There

Hello everyone! My name is Harry Foster, and I’m thrilled to join the Cultural Heritage Informatics Fellowship community. I’m a third-year PhD student in the English Department at Michigan State University, where I study African American literature with a...

ZOU Yun | 2025-2026 CHI Graduate Fellow

Hello everyone! My name is Zou Yun and I am a PhD candidate in the history department. My research interests lie in the gender and environmental history of 20th-century China, and my dissertation explores women’s active participation in transforming nature through...

Rylee LaLonde | 2025-2026 CHI Senior Fellow

Boozhoo kina waya/ Hello everyone! My name is Rylee LaLonde. I am a second-year PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University. My research centers on Indigeneity, traditional knowledge ways, and bioarchaeology– specifically how these...

We Have Liftoff! The Launch of Memory Lane

It is with great excitement that I get to introduce the official launch of Memory Lane. Consisting of two projects–an augmented reality (AR) experience and an educational website of Romeo, Michigan’s Main Street–Memory Lane looks to use different digital tools to help...