Author: watrall
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Vision, Fellowship, & Planning
In the CHI fellowship, during the first semester we carry out rapid development project challenges with a team of fellows. Last year, the CHI fellowship was completely online due to COVID-19. While Zoom was essential to allowing us to still meet, work on these projects together, and have the fellowship that CHI is all about,…
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Cultural Heritage Management vs. the Business School
A link between cultural heritage management and classical business strategies should be forged, and the university is the perfect place to begin this cultural transformation. If we are to think of cultural heritage management as a practice, one aspect that sets it apart from traditional business methods is a focus on ethics and human rights.…
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What are Digital Humanities? Let’s discuss revolution, evolution, and rhetoric.
So, what are we talking about when we refer to the concept of digital humanities?
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A few weeks of lecture and a look at the Survey of London’s “Histories of Whitechapel” map
Over the last few weeks in CHI I have been given the resources to think about what cultural heritage is and why and to what digital methods are applied to the protection, preservation, and/or sharing cultural heritage. Digital (cultural) heritage projects are applied works and the goal or outcome should be stated explicitly. This way…
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Micayla Spiros | Returning CHI Fellow 2021-2022
Hello, again! My name is Micayla Spiros and I have accepted a Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative returning fellow position this year. I am a fourth year biological anthropology doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology. I study human osteology exploring the multifactorial, interdependent causes of skeletal variation from a biocultural lens focusing on the postcranial…
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Let Me Reintroduce Myself
It is an honor and a privilege to once again be among such a multitalented and interdisciplinary group of scholars. My name is Sandy Burnley and I am an ABD PhD candidate currently on the job market. My areas of specialization include nineteenth-century British literature and animal studies. My current book project, Critical Entanglement: Animals…
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Hello, CHI community!
My name is Katherine Knowles, and I am a member of the CHI Fellows cohort for the 2021-2022 academic year. I am a third year PhD student in the English department here at MSU, and I am also pursuing the Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate. Previously, I have worked at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville as a…
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Hello, CHI!
Hello, CHI! My name is Vee Lawson, an incoming CHI Fellow for 2021-22 and a third-year PhD student in Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures. I previously earned my MA in English from the University of Arkansas with a concentration in Gender and Sexuality Studies. I’m honored to be included in this group of fellows, and…
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Hello CHI
My name is Meng, a new CHI fellow for 2021-2022. I am a third-year doctoral student in urban planning at the School of Planning, Design and Construction. My research has been focused on three themes: the social implications of transformative technologies, urban sustainability, and the use of computational methods to examine cities. For my dissertation,…
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Hello again!
I have been offered a returning fellow position at the Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative (CHI). I was not expecting it, but I am happy and very honored to come back.