Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative

Author: watrall

  • Introducing Myself: An Archaeologist Learning Digital Tools

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    My name is Jeff Burnett, a fourth-year doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology and an incoming CHI Fellow. When not in CHI I work as Campus Archaeologist, a student position in MSU’s Campus Archaeology Program. My dissertation research is an archaeological investigation of a historic resort in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts. My work there focuses…

  • Hello World!

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    My name is Dani Willcutt and I am a Senior CHI Fellow for the 2021-22 academic year. I am also a fourth year doctoral candidate in the History Department. My dissertation research is a history of the food service industry in Lansing, Michigan, during the twentieth century. In the past, I received my Masters in…

  • Extension of 3DMMS-Initiative

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    With the end of the summer comes the culmination of my CHI Fellowship summer project. As an extension of my 2020-2021 CHI Fellowship, I spent the past few months making 3DMMS-Initiative.com a more interactive platform through data visualization. The aim for this project was to create a visualization that allowed users to see the interconnected…

  • 3DMMS Initiative: Summer Expansion

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    This summer I am working on an extension of my 2020-2021 CHI Fellowship project: 3D MMS Initiative. This website was initially created with the focus of disseminating a pedagogical tool for users to learn macromorphoscopic traits. The website highlights three-dimensional cranial and postcranial variations of the human skeleton. Hand in hand with the learning the…

  • Launching The Black Shadow Box | An educational database about Black artists from the past and present.

    Launching The Black Shadow Box | An educational database about Black artists from the past and present.

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    The canon timeline of art history typically focuses on white artists, more so male white artists, but in recent times there has been a push to acknowledge the contribution of women artists and artists of color. In American Art, the contributions of Black artists are slowly yet surely being recognized. Most are from the 20th…

  • Launching Migrating Cuisines Website

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    Migrating Cuisines is a project created by three Ph.D. students (Marwa Bakabas, Sari Saba-Sadiya, and Ezgi Karaoglu) at Michigan State University. Although we are coming from different academic disciplines, our Middle Eastern roots and common cuisines bind us and functioned as a base of this project.   “Migrating Cuisines” is a project based on the acknowledgement of food as a universal necessity but is also a representation of cultural phenomenon with its historical meanings, recipes, and traditions. People migrate across borders but how does food migrate and how do recipes evolve in new environments? As migration increases…

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    [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″ min_height=”1741.4px”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”4_4″][et_pb_image src=”http://chi.anthropology.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20190718_141840-scaled.jpg” _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default” title_text=”20190718_141840″ hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″][/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″ custom_padding=”||0px|||”] Mapping Colombian Emblematic Memories [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_post_title meta=”off” _builder_version=”3.15″ title_font=”|600|||||||” title_font_size=”35px” custom_margin=”||20px|”][/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ custom_padding=”||0px|||” sticky_enabled=”0″] What is this project about? Mapping Colombian…

  • Launching 3D MMS Initiative|Cranial & Postcranial Three-Dimensional Interactive Learning Instrument

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    I am excited to announce the official launch of the 3D MMS Initiative! This open-access web platform is a pedagogical instrument for osteologists learning skeletal human variation. The tool focuses on cranial and postcranial variations that are not well represented in digital archives. Currently, there are limited teaching resources available online, limiting accessibility to learning…

  • Introducing “Classical Reception in Contemporary Far-Right Politics”

    Introducing “Classical Reception in Contemporary Far-Right Politics”

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    My project this semester has focused on classical reception in contemporary far-right politics. Classical reception is concerned with how classical antiquity is represented or received in different historical and modern contexts. Following the 2016 presidential election, scholars have been more vocal in criticizing the far-right’s use of classical materials from statuary and literature to historical…

  • Introducing “Healthy Visuals”

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    I am excited to announce the launch of my CHI Fellowship Project, Healthy Visuals. This project has seen a few iterations since I first thought about what it would be in December. The goal of the site is to provide a pedagogical example of rudimentary data visualization to be used in an undergraduate-level methods course…