Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative

Author: watrall

  • Andra Durham | New CHI Fellow 2020-2021

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    Hello! My name is Andra Durham and I am a graduate fellow in the 2020-2021 iteration of the Cultural Heritage Informatics (CHI) fellowship. I am a second year PhD student in the Department of Anthropology. I earned my B.A. in anthropology and classics from Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan in 2019 after taking…

  • Michael J. Albani | New CHI Fellow 2020-2021

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    Boozhoo! My name is Michael Albani, and I am excited to be joining the Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative as a graduate fellow for the 2020-2021 academic year. I am a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Michigan State University where I am currently entering my fifth year. My dissertation, tentatively titled “Racializing Indigenous…

  • Micayla Spiros | New CHI Fellow 2020-2021

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    Hello! My name is Micayla Spiros and I am a fellow in the Cultural Heritage Informatics (CHI) fellowship initiative for the 2020-2021 school year. I am a third year doctoral student in the Anthropology Ph.D. program with a specialization in forensic anthropology. My dissertation research focuses on growth and development of the human skeleton and…

  • Hello CHI Fellowship!

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    [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_post_title _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default” title_font_size=”52px” meta_text_color=”#000000″ background_color=”#e09900″ text_orientation=”center” title_text_shadow_style=”preset4″ meta_text_shadow_style=”preset3″][/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default”] As individuals and as a field, we must interrogate our work to ensure that we are not ourselves complicit in the neoliberal practice of naming problems in order to evade their resolution (Matthew K. Gold…

  • Introducing New Additions to Archaeology 101

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    As part of an extension of my 2019-2020 CHI Fellowship, I have spent the summer working on updates and additions to Archaeology 101, an interactive educational website created by myself and Autumn Painter. Over the last few months, I have been working to improve the interactive map located on the site’s “Place” page and have…

  • Future Updates to Archaeology 101

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    After the successful launch of Archaeology 101 (archaeology101.com) at the end of April, Autumn and I began brainstorming ways to add to and improve the website. We also examined user feedback to better highlight areas that could be upgraded (thank you to all those who have checked out the website!). Moving forward this summer, I…

  • “May even one day outstrip the history monograph”: AHR Digital History Reviews and Thoughts on the Status of the Field

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    [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] In the latest issue of the American Historical Review (April 2020) brought to us by the American History Association contains an intriguing special feature of digital history reviews. One of the goals of the reviews section, the…

  • Introducing: A Digital Domestic Cookbook

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    I have known since the beginning of the CHI Fellowship that my project would revolve around Malinda Russell, the author of A Domestic Cookbook (1866). The exact shape of the project, however, changed numerous times throughout the year. I was determined to create a digital biography of Russell during the early stages of the project.…

  • Changing Directions: *

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    In February, I decided to fundamentally alter my project i.e. a whole new project. I still wanted to create a pedagogical tool but had instead to create something that could be used students and teachers in the K-12 system. While a course website is still a great idea, I realized that it was out of…

  • Launching Post for “American Tastes, Russian Eats”

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    I am very happy to launch my CHI fellowship project, American Tastes, Russian Eats, at the end of the 2019-20 academic year. The random idea of creating a website about some U.S. fast food’s footprint in Russia came to my mind when I worked as a graduate teаching assistant for Dr. Helen Veit’s course History…