by doyleras | Nov 4, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
Hello all! I am a second-year doctoral student in the Department of History. I am especially interested in studying environmental history and histories of science and technology, focusing on water politics in Africa. I am interested in historicizing the water politics...
by Autumn Painter | Nov 2, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
I love food, and this year I am combining this love with both of my fellowship, Cultural Heritage Informatics (CHI) and Campus Archaeology Program, into a focused research project on the Early Period of MSU’s campus (1855-1870). Within the Campus Archaeology...
by swayampr | Oct 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
When I first began thinking about a prospective CHI fellowship project, I wanted to map the Underground Railroad between Detroit and Windsor, specifically spatializing where and how people escaped. In the last few weeks however, I have begun to think about...
by Nikki Silva | Oct 28, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
Academia is changing. The old standard 500+ page, written dissertation may become obsolete as new technologies develop and academia starts accepting new models of the dissertation. One model is incorporating digital components (i.e. a map, database, appendices, or...
by Jessica Yann | Oct 22, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
These past few weeks I’ve been pondering what to do for my CHI fellowship project. This has prompted a lot of introspection on what I think is important about digital cultural heritage, along with many internet searches. One of my core beliefs is that archaeology, in...
by Erin Pevan | Oct 21, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
Since my last blog post, the foundations of digital project planning have been arranged, and the next steps have been taken towards creating the framework for my CHI project. From learning the fundamentals of project management to work plan preparation to geospatial...
by Jack Biggs | Oct 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
Hi everyone! So I tried to post my introduction blog a while back but I guess I somehow messed it up and it never appeared so this is going to be a double blog today. My name is Jack Biggs and I am a 3rd year PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology. My focus...
by pebbles1 | Oct 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
A couple of weeks ago, I presented some research on place and space at the Cultural Rhetorics Conference (CRCon). My presentation was on “Whose Voice and Space?: A look at white space and rhetorical sovereignty in St. Kitts memory of colonization.” Specifically, I...
by Autumn Painter | Oct 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
This past week I attended the 60th anniversary of the Midwest Archaeological Conference in Iowa City, Iowa. While my presentation overlapped with the digital archaeology session, I was able to attend one presentation by Dr. Sissel Schroeder, Jake Pfaffenroth, Marissa...
by mahnkes1 | Oct 10, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
This last week, we discussed Geospatial visualization tools to aid the creation, display, and emphasis of geospatial analytics. As a researcher of the rhetoric of place and space, that is, the communicative relationship between citizens and locales,...
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