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From Vision to Reality: What I Learned Creating a Digital Component for a Cultural Heritage Institution
Hello everyone! I hope you're all enjoying a wonderful holiday week. Today, I want to share my journey of creating a digital component for a cultural heritage institution, an experience that fundamentally changed how I think about the intersection of technology, museums, and public engagement. When I first learned about this challenge, I felt confident, perhaps overly so. The task seemed...
Version Control as a Mindset: Lessons From Collaborative Digital Making
Hi, this is Xinyue (Kiera). In this post, I want to reflect on what version control has come to mean for me, especially through my experiences working on two collaborative digital projects: Reframing Collections: From Geographic Generalizations to Cultural Context and Mapping East Lansing Memories. Both projects have been meaningful in completely different ways, but together they have reshaped...
Version Control as Collaboration: Building Mapping East Lansing Memories
Hi everyone!! I am back with a new post. As the semester comes to an end, I have been reflecting on the two digital projects we completed in the CHI Fellowship. One was a simple introduction to digital storytelling. The other was an interactive map that we built from the ground up. In this post, I want to focus on Mapping East Lansing Memories and what it taught me, especially about how version...
Version Control Within Digital Component Formation: A Hand-in-Hand Experience
Hello everyone, this is my second blog post on CHI. For this one, we need to address one of two topics: the importance and relevance of version control in cultural heritage projects, and the experience of creating a digital component for a cultural heritage institution. In my time here as a CHI Graduate Fellow, I found both these topics to be inextricably linked as we went through the assigned...
The Power of Cultural Heritage- Bryttany Grimes
In this blog post, I will reflect a bit about my personal experience with entering the digital history space and the new insights I gained while creating a digital component for a cultural heritage institution. One of our team challenges as a CHI fellow was to create a project vision document as a team and then transform that document into a pitch website. To complete this challenge, it was...
Tracking History with Version Control
For this blog post, CHI Fellows were given two topics to address: 1) the importance and relevance of version control in cultural heritage projects, or 2) the experience of creating a digital component for a cultural heritage institution. While both are exciting ideas to explore, I chose to talk about the relevance of version control—as it has quite literally saved my butt on numerous occasions....
Version Control as Archival Practice
It's Yoyo again. So this time we were asked to consider version control in a heritage project and this is where my mind went: I keep thinking about what “version control” actually means in the context of digital humanities, and what it means to me, and what I have learned about it. Even after the second project, the mapping challenge started, and I still saw it as something programmers needed....
Scott Bullock | 2025-26 CHI Graduate Fellow
Hello! I am a PhD student in the History Department. I study modern U.S. history and I am especially interested in APIDAA history, immigration history, and legal history. My dissertation concerns changes in U.S. immigration and naturalization law after World War II and their connection to ideas of race, gender, sexuality, and military labor. By examining the War Brides Act (1945), the...
Gungun Islam | 2025-26 CHI Graduate Fellow
Hi everyone! My name is Gungun Islam, and I am a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University. My research examines the everyday experiences of infertility among Muslim women in India, exploring how reproductive suffering is shaped by intersections of social, economic, and religious inequality. Muslim women are among the most disadvantaged communities...
Ritesh Khandelwal | 2025-26 CHI Graduate Fellow
Hello, everyone! My name is Ritesh Khandelwal and I am a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of English at Michigan State University. My research lies in comics studies, specifically the transnational dynamics of comics publishing, and popular culture studies at large, including film and media studies. My proposed dissertation will focus on the affective impact of defunct comics...
