Category: CHI Fellowship Program
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Returning to the Fellowship: The Epic Search for a Database
This year, I am returning to the CHI Fellowship. I first participating in the program in 2011 when it was in its first year. My project for the first time around was creating an OMEKA for the MSU Campus Archaeology Project. The goal was to have somewhere to share information in a museum-like format. This…
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Indigeneous Research Approaches and Archival Work
As I continue thinking about how to do archival work, I found myself this week listening to Malea Powell’s words from her chapter “Dreaming Charles Eastman: Cultural Memory, Autobiography and Geography in Indigenous Rhetorical Histories” published in the book Beyond the Archives: Research as Lived Process. In this chapter, Powell tells her story about her…
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African Studies in the Digital Age
This past weekend, I attended the 56th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in Baltimore, Maryland. It was a fantastic event, bringing together scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, from history and anthropology to public health and geography. In addition to sharing their research, scholars also reflected on future trajectories of African Studies. Aside…
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Digitizing and Preserving African American History and Heritage
Digitizing and preserving African American history and heritage is an important mission in the digital age. Providing access to K-12 and undergraduate students and educators, as well as the community at large, is the largest challenge. Furthermore, strategies for preserving African American heritage and history as it happens is the newest challenge faced by those…
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CHI Fellowship Introduction: Brian Geyer
Hey everyone my name is Brian Geyer and I am a doctoral student in the Anthropology Department here at Michigan State. Though not formally a Cultural Heritage Informatics Fellow, I have joined the team this year to develop my technological skills and become a more robust candidate for employment once I complete my Ph.D. Upon…
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In Pursuit of a Digital Academic Workflow: Putting Digital Reading, Annotating, and Citation Management to Work for Your Studies
I’ve always been one of those students who had trouble taking notes from readings. I’ve tried a variety of strategies with varying degrees of success and most of these revolved around ways to write notes on paper, Word documents, or annotate hard copy texts themselves. Yet, I encountered problems with keeping track of notes and…
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Researching African Hip-hop Culture: The Role of Online Archives
For the last couple of years, I have been engaged in researching Hip-hop culture specifically, Kenyan Hip-hop. Owing to difficulties in finding original music albums, coupled with music piracy in the country, I have found myself relying mostly on online resources to do my research. One of the resources I have come to find very…
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Naangodinong kwii bekaayaa wii noondaagoyi
One of the issues that confronts those involved with Native American language revitalization is how to teach a language whose speakers are often few and far between and potential students are often spread out over a large area. In Michigan there are less than 50 speakers of Anishinaabemowin, or the Ojibwe language. While many reservation…
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Digital Collaboration
One of the difficulties of being a historian of South Africa living in East Lansing (or really being a historian of any foreign place) is that, for most of the year, I am over 8,000 miles away from my subject matter. This is not to say that I do not have valuable resources at my…
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CHI Fellowship Introduction: Esther Milu
I am a PhD student in Rhetoric and Writing. My Research interests revolve around language, literacy, cultural and digital rhetorics. Specifically, I am interested in learning how today’s youth are developing translingual and transcultural literacy practices in todays multilingual, multicultural and transnational world. I use hip-hop from the African diaspora as a heuristic to understand…