by neejerch | Mar 16, 2015 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Project Info, Uncategorized
This spring break I was lucky enough to visit the Library of Congress in Washington, DC to conduct research on my dissertation, and to specifically look at materials for my CHI project. At the LOC, I worked my way through thousands of pages of documents from the...
by Lisa Bright | Mar 9, 2015 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Project Info
When my CHI project shifted from database driven to my new mapping focus I had a decision to make; which mapping tool to use? There are many great tools available for free, or for limited cost, but there were a few key aspects I needed to consider. Do the maptiles...
by neejerch | Feb 17, 2015 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Project Info, Uncategorized
Nineteenth-century patents may not seem like the most thrilling subject for scholarly inquiry, but they tell us much more than just meets the eye. Most of us would probably assume that white men filed the majority of patents in the nineteenth-century United States....
by royston7 | Feb 16, 2015 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Project Info
The Oxford English Dictionary defines the term ‘clairvoyance’ as ‘keenness of mental perception, clearness of insight; insight into things beyond the range of ordinary perception’. Voyant allows users to access a ‘web-based reading and analysis environment’ that...
by neejerch | Nov 17, 2014 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Project Info
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend and chair a panel at the Migration Without Borders Conference here at Michigan State. I do not consider migration as a central theme of my work, nor I am particularly well versed in the historiography of migration beyond...
by neejerch | Oct 24, 2014 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Project Info
I have begun diving to a variety of sources for my project “Wheelwomen at Work,” in which I am digitizing women’s involvement in the bicycle industry from the 1880s to the 1910s. One of my most striking findings so far has come from factory inspection records....
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