Fishing for Fun in Building a Pitch Website

Over the past couple of weeks, the fellows in the CHI lab have been working through the process of taking an idea for a digital heritage project from vision, to vision document, and then to the creation of a pitch website. As part of the group developing an idea for...

Troubleshooting DH Projects

In discussing DH pedagogy, it feels inevitable that whatever project you’re working on will “break” – technically speaking – during the semester. Although some DH scholars have made compelling arguments about the utility of failure when employing DH tools in the...

Vision Document to Website

Hello CHI Community!   It’s been a crazy last month in Chi, as we learned more about planning and implementing digital heritage projects through small rapid development projects. First, we were asked to create a Vision Documents (or a two-page snippet on your...

Vision Document: A GPS to DH Projects

Over the past few weeks, we’ve learned much about cultural heritage and the processes involved in digitizing cultural heritage. UNESCO defines cultural heritage as material culture (artifacts, monuments, structures, landscapes, etc.) and intangible cultural attributes...

Summer Research in Stratford

The Shakespeare’s Birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon, June 2022. It’s hard to believe that it’s already October–it feels like I was just in Stratford doing some research for my dissertation yesterday, but it has been three months. At the end of last year, I was...

Hello CHI Community!

My name is Rhian Dunn. I am a fourth year doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology, specializing in Forensic Anthropology. My research focuses on improving methods of the biological profile by looking at human skeletal variation through metric and...

Glad to be Returning to CHI for ’22-’23

Hello everyone! I’m excited to be (re)joining the CHI fellowship as a senior fellow in the ’22-’23 cohort. My name is Erica Holt, and I’m finishing my final year of my PhD in the History department. My dissertation focuses on reproductive work in China and Taiwan...

Hello, CHI Community!

Hey all, my name is Emma Creamer, and I am in my second year of the Arts, Cultural Management, and Museum Studies Master’s program. In addition to the CHII Fellowship, I am also super excited to start the Campus Archaeology Program Fellowship! My background is in...

Greetings, CHI Community

Hello CHI Community! I am Eric Kesse, a final-year doctoral candidate in African History at MSU and a Charlotte W. Newcombe (Woodrow Wilson) Fellow for the 2022/23 academic year. I specialize in West African history, the study of human enslavement and the African...