Author: watrall
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CHI Fellow Introduction: Laura McGrath
My name is Laura B. McGrath. I am a fifth-year doctoral candidate (ABD) in the Department of English at MSU. I am very excited to be a CHI Fellow for 2015-2016. I study literary modernism and digital humanities. My dissertation, tentatively titled Modernish: Modernism and Literary Distinction in the 21st Century, uses traditional, ethnographic, and digital methods to…
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CHI Introduction Fellow: Joyce-Zoe Farley
My name is Joyce-Zoe Farley; I’m a second-year doctoral student in African American and African Studies (AAAS) with a graduate certification in Advance Journalism. My research focuses on riots, rebellions, civil disturbances and uprisings of the 20th century with the catalyst of the research being Detroit 1967. I will be the first non-traditional dissertation in AAAS…
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CHI Fellow Introduction: Nikki Silva
Hi there! My name is Nikki Silva and I’m a 4th year PhD student in the Department of Anthropology where I focus in archaeology. I received my B.S. in Anthropology from Baylor University in 2012 and my M.A. in Anthropology from MSU in 2014. My research focuses on how cultural interaction affects community organization and…
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CHI Fellow Introduction: Autumn Beyer
Hello! My name is Autumn Beyer and I am very excited to be back at Michigan State. I received my B.S. from MSU in Anthropology with a Specialization in Museum Studies in 2013. Then I moved south and attended Illinois State University in Normal, IL for my M.S. in Archaeology. At ISU I focused on…
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Re-Introducing Lisa Bright
Hello again. I’m happy to say that I’m a returning CHI fellow. I’m looking forward to getting to know this new CHI cohort, and learn some new digital tools and tricks. In case you’re just tuning in to the CHI blog, I’ll rewind for a moment and introduce myself. I’m Lisa Bright, a second year…
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Mortuary Mapping Summer Update
Hi! After 5 weeks of surprisingly highly productive research in California, I’ve returned to MSU. I took nearly 2,000 pictures, 500+ screen shots, searched 50 years of newspapers, 15 roles of microfilm, and visited 6 archives. I truly didn’t expect to come back with that much data. Some of the archival documentation is sensitive in…
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FieldworkNarratives – Summer Updates
During the Fall (2014) and Spring (2015) semesters as a CHI Fellow, I worked on developing my on-going project FieldworkNarratives – a pictorial journal of my fieldwork experiences with the Chenchu community of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India. Using Story Maps, an online tool that facilitates storytelling, I designed a simple narrative of several aspects of…
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Wheelwomen at Work 2.0 is live!
It has been a busy summer plugging away on Wheelwomen at Work, my digital humanities project mapping women’s involvement in the nineteenth-century bicycle industry. This summer I completed two major tasks. First, I nearly doubled the amount of pins on the map. Much of my new material highlights women’s work in factories, and I also added…
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New units coming to SWAG
This summer I plan to create new content for my educational site The Saharan World at a Glance. I am currently conducting preliminary dissertation research in Bamako. When I am not I’m the archive I plan to travel as much as possible to observe and photograph trade, Islam and leisure in Mali. Originally I had…
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Mortuary Mapping Summer Expansion
Mortuary Mapping, my online site documenting the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center Historic Cemetery launched in early May. This first phase of the project focused on the creation and implementation of the interactive maps of the burials using Cartodb. However, I see Mortuary Mapping as a space that will grow alongside the project research. Next…