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...
by Titi Kou | Nov 12, 2018 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
In 2013, ProFans published a public statement that pointed out the rise of the right-wing extremist activities in German football stadiums. The statement by ProFans, the largest football fan organization, appealed to the relevant parties to work together and to avoid...
by Ryan Carty | Nov 8, 2018 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
In my last post, I discussed how historians use ethnonyms in historical datasets. The main take-away from that post is ethnonyms are difficult to interpret but can reflect the movement of African slaves with similar socio-cultural characteristics to specific regions...
by TaylorPanczak | Nov 6, 2018 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
Recently I have had the opportunity to scan over 1000 slides of excavations that occurred along the southern coast of Peru throughout the 90’s and early 00’s. While the task itself was mundane and took many more hours than I was expecting, the images that...
by john5110 | Nov 2, 2018 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
My research interests are transdisciplinary and primarily focus on race, storytelling, and s/place. Working alongside communities of Color, I also consider education and schooling sites to make meaning. There is a lot of amazing work being done that considers Black...
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