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Call for 2023-2024 Cultural Heritage Informatics Graduate Fellowship Applications
The Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative invites applications for its 2023-2024 Cultural Heritage Informatics Graduate Fellowship program. The Cultural Heritage Informatics Fellowships offer MSU graduate students the skills to creatively and thoughtfully apply digital methods and computational approaches to cultural heritage collections, materials, data, questions, and challenges. 2023-2024...
Jessica Pettengill | 2023 CHI Fellow
Welcome! I'm Jessica Pettengill, a second-year Ph.D. student in the Information and Media program in the School of Journalism. My journey to a Ph.D. and the CHI fellowship began in 2019 while I was an assignment editor at a broadcast station in my hometown of Sacramento, California. It was my first paying job in the field after graduating with my bachelor's degree in journalism and master's...
Aubree Marshall, CHI 2023-2024 Grad Fellow
Hi everyone! My name is Aubree Marshall, and I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student in anthropology. More specifically, my specialty lies in bioarchaeology. By studying human remains from archaeological contexts, we can learn more about past behaviors and lived experiences of those individuals and populations studied. Excavating at Marco Gonzalez in Belize! My research area is in Mesoamerica,...
Priyanka Jayakodi | CHI 2023-24 Grad Fellow
Hi CHI Community! I'm Priyanka Jayakodi, a Cultural Anthropology PhD student. My research examines the entanglements of state violence, medical discourses, and environmental issues in Sri Lanka. I use ethnographic and visual methods such as photography and sketching in my research. I studied Sociology for my BA (2015) and MA (2016) at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. I am incredibly...
Philip Pellino | Greetings to the CHI Community!
Greetings! My name is Philip Pellino and I am a new CHI Fellow for the 2023-2024 academic year. I am currently a 5th year Ph.D candidate in the Department of Linguistics, Languages and Cultures here at Michigan State University. I prefer to think of myself as just a Linguist but truth be told, I’m much more competent in certain areas than others. I spend the most time thinking about how the...
Launching the Stratford Heritage Guide
I am excited to announce the launch of my ‘22-’23 CHI project, the Stratford Heritage Guide. The presentation of Shakespeare’s legacy has evolved over the centuries, and narratives regarding the greatness of the playwright have been curated in very specific and intentional ways to cement him as an English cultural icon. Although Shakespeare wrote all his plays in London, his hometown of...
Midwives to the Countryside Launch
As we close finals week here at Michigan State University, I am excited to be launching my CHI project: “Midwives to the Countryside.” The aim of creating this project was to map midwife training programs with the express purpose of demonstrating what the rural-urban gap in midwife care looked like in the early years of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). This is a particularly important...
Introducing “Mapping Forensic Anthropology Research”!
Welcome to the launch of my new website, Mapping Forensic Anthropology Research (MFAR), the result of the project I worked on as a 2022-2023 CHI Graduate Fellow! This website is an exploratory resource for students and professionals in forensic anthropology. It is aimed at helping to understand what United States-based documented skeletal collections are used for the biological profile methods...
The Debut of The Urban Toxicity Project
The dream for this project is much bigger than its current reality. Right now, it is a map with two points marked on it and only one of those points (Milwaukee) will take you anywhere. However, it represents the seed from which I am hoping to grow a collaborative effort to document incidents of urban toxicity in the United States. A project I am (creatively) calling, The Urban Toxicity Project....
Introducing “Graduate Labor Rising”
Happy May Day! I am pleased to announce the launch of my 2022-2023 project, Graduate Labor Rising. This website traces the development of graduate labor unions across the US, their roots in radical labor traditions, and their turn towards justice-oriented bargaining, then shares a library of collective bargaining agreements to aid current and future graduate labor organizers. Despite the...
