by farleyj7 | Dec 18, 2015 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
“They [the media] just referred to it as a riot. Down on the ground it looked like a rebellion. But the media and the power structure had a lot of things wrong,” said Ed Vaughn, activist and businessman in Detroit.[1] This is my story: Detroit 1967 is an oral history...
by wargojon | Dec 18, 2015 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
As new(er) communicative landscapes emerge, humanities educators and research in the teaching of cultural heritage have enthusiastically embraced digital and visual culture. From more (g)local understandings of cosmopolitanism to understanding how locative literacies...
by Sara Bijani | Dec 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
I’ve been taking my comprehensive exams over the course of this semester, which provides a strange and exhausting opportunity to really step back and think about the state of my field of research, as well as the ways that field has historically been presented to...
by mcgrat85 | Dec 8, 2015 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
As a CHI Fellow, I’m undertaking a large-scale text analysis of the Armed Services Editions, a collection of novels sent to US Soldiers during WWII to “fight the war on ideas,” to consider issues of politics and literary form. I first stumbled on the...
by jfelipe195 | Dec 4, 2015 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
Hi everyone, I would like to introduce the project I am developing now at Michigan State University. I am currently working collaboratively with Andrew Barsom, a fellow doctoral student in the Department of History at MSU, on the Baptismal Record Database for Slave...
by Bernard C. Moore | Dec 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
Digitization and archiving of historical materials is an intensely political process. While technical aspects are still crucial to having a functioning online resource, we must realize that cultural heritage informatics projects are done for specific reasons....
by Autumn Painter | Dec 2, 2015 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
What is the Morton Village Site? Why did we choose to use it for our fellowship project? Our project will be focused around a single archaeological site, Morton Village. The Morton Village site is a integrated Mississippian and Oneota habitation site, located in the...
by Lisa Bright | Dec 2, 2015 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
I’ve previously mentioned that Katy Meyers Emery and myself are working on a larger project called ossuaryKB: The Mortuary Method & Practice Knowledge Base. This project is being produced in conjunction with the Institute on Digital Archaeology Method &...
by mcgrat85 | Nov 30, 2015 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
A friend of mine once joked that so many Victorianists become digital humanists because Victorian novels weigh so much. If the Victorianist is drawn to DH because of the ease—and chiropractic benefits—of digitization, then the Modernist might stay away for similar...
by wargojon | Nov 30, 2015 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
In starting the “building” phase of my project, I am reminded of Pearce Durst’s recent blog essay on “Inventing the Digital Humanities through Freirian Praxis.” In it, Durst uses the metaphor of origami and the particulars of folding and unfolding to nuance the...
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