by TaylorPanczak | Feb 11, 2019 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
Introducing my project for the 2018/2019 CHI fellowship: Peruvian Origins Informatics Project. With this project I want to build an interactive, multi-component website that will be accessible to non-academics and will be valuable to future researchers. I want to make...
by Ryan Carty | Jan 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
Europe’s exploitation of Africa is a common narrative in African history. Scholars continue to use archival records to investigate the movement of enslaved persons and commodities from Africa to the Americas and Europe. In the past ten years, scholars have also...
by franc230 | Jan 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
The baffling amount of data in archaeological collections makes their management a daunting task. Subsequently, material culture can sit on shelves for years, collecting dust long after removing the original dirt of excavation. My project for the Cultural Heritage...
by Titi Kou | Jan 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
With the new semester kicking off, I am shifting my focus from practicing various digital tools and enhancing technical skills, to working on my own research project, depicting immigrant players on the German national football team since 1990. As I mentioned in my...
by plemonsa | Jan 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
In my most recent blog post https://chi.anthropology.msu.edu/2018/12/what-is-your-purpose/, I discussed the importance of public engagement by researchers in academia, focusing on the role of biological anthropologists and their unique ability to contribute to the...
by john5110 | Jan 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
When we returned in January, I realized that I am still quite unsure of what I want for this project. I still don’t know. While working on my wireframe and project vision, I found myself a bit lost which led to me asking myself about the purpose, the goals, the...
by holteri1 | Jan 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
While I face many challenges moving forward with my project for the CHI fellowship (I argued with a masthead for hours last week), the most challenging part of my online exhibit is...
by Daniel Fandino | Jan 20, 2019 | CHI Fellowship Program
Part of the impetus for embarking on this project was the conservation of convention history. Many of the constituent components of early fandom have disappeared or were never recorded in the first place. As pop culture is seen as disposable–ask anyone who has...
by TaylorPanczak | Jan 14, 2019 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
This past December I had a short field season in Arequipa Peru where I finished collecting data for my master’s thesis. Even though this season was short (only 2 weeks), I feel like I learned as much as I did during my summer field season (2 months). One of the...
by plemonsa | Dec 14, 2018 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
That title sounds really deep. What I am proposing to ask yourself is: In my professional career, why am I doing what I do and does my position serve a purpose to the public? My initial project goal was to develop a map of craniofacial morphology that would be...
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