by john5110 | Dec 7, 2018 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
One of my most salient goals as an academic and a writer, as a person, is perhaps directly related to one of my greatest fears: forgetting home, and thus, losing home. While many of our technologies and actions today reflect globalization and the sharing of ideas,...
by dglovsky | Dec 7, 2018 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
I recently attended a panel on teaching pre-1800 African history using digital humanities. The panel focused on early African history, but some of the presentations ignored the digital humanities portion of the title and only really focused on the pre-1800 part....
by Ryan Carty | Dec 6, 2018 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
Numbers remain unwelcome facets of African history. Foreigners collected most of them until independence, and after independence the published numbers tend to reflect Africa’s lack in terms of economic and social development. Of course, these numbers, most of...
by franc230 | Dec 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
Scope has been a primary concern for a lot of us during the semester. You have to have an idea that falls right into that Goldilocks zone of feasible and worthwhile. My particular project is no exception. As a research assistant for the anthropology department, I...
by Titi Kou | Dec 5, 2018 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
A few days ago, in the office, my co-workers referred to me as the “DH person”. “The DH group” is also used to refer to the scholars on MSU campus who work with Digital Humanities. On the one hand, I am proud to be recognized as a “DH person.” On the other hand, I...
by plemonsa | Nov 28, 2018 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
We, as academics, are conditioned to write grant and project proposals for research that we are interested in pursuing. We have our general format that we follow for these proposals…introduction, background information, research problem and questions, materials and...
by dglovsky | Nov 20, 2018 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
As a graduate student 90+% of the way through writing my dissertation, I often have ask myself this question: how many people will ever read anything I write? My dissertation will be read by my committee members, maybe a couple of historian friends, grad students or...
by Daniel Fandino | Nov 16, 2018 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
The first problem to resolve in mapping out American anime fandom is where to situate a start point for the project. The first major anime convention in the United States was Project A-Kon, first held in 1990. Before this point, smaller anime meetings were held as...
by franc230 | Nov 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
I had my first eureka moment in programming a couple of weeks ago. Our cohort was tasked with building a website with a map, putting some points on that map and making some popups appear when you click on those points. We decided to utilize https://www.mapbox.com to...
by holteri1 | Nov 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
I recently attended a digital round table at a conference on Asian that focused on open access, online journals and the difficulty in maintaining the journal both financially and technically. While the presenters clearly cared very deeply for their journals and...
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