Category: CHI Fellowship Program
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CHI Fellowship Introduction: Shanti Zaid
My name is Shanti Zaid and I am very happy to have been selected as one of this year’s Cultural Heritage Informatics fellows. Since I have little background in the digital world beyond a lay familiarity with the internet and a mild case of digitized article hoarding, what else could I offer by way of…
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A Voice from the Technological Borderlands: David S. Bennett, civil rights and technology scholar
On September 4, 1957, Elizabeth Eckford approached Little Rock Arkansas’ Central High School in an attempt to enact desegregation. A wall of national guardsmen turned her away. None of this initial exchange was able to be recorded by the television camera operators, as their equipment was still being set up. And yet, today there exists…
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CHI Fellowship Introduction: David Walton
My name is David M. Walton (aka Kalonji A. Butholenkosi). I am a dual doctoral student in History and AAAS (African American and African Studies) at Michigan State University. I am from Romulus, Michigan. My research interests are: African American history (1860-1993), African history (colonization and decolonization), South African history, Detroit history, Michigan history and…
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CHI Fellowship Intro: Adam Haviland
Hello everyone. My name is Adam Haviland. I am a PhD student in the Anthropology program here at Michigan State. I am the lonely linguistic Anthropology student you see hiding out at Espresso Royal. I also am a Graduate Assistant for the Native American Institute. Before coming into Anthropology I received an M.A in American…
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CHI Fellows Intro: Andrew LoPinto
Hello there, internet! I am Andrew. I am a PhD student here at Michigan State University in the Department of Anthropology as well as a research assistant for the Campus Archaeology Program. My background is in archaeology, and specifically, bioarchaeology and mortuary analysis. Yes, I work with the dead. Macabre? Perhaps. Interesting? DEFINITELY! Bioarchaeology can clue us…
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CHI Fellow Introduction: Liz Timbs
My name is Liz Timbs. I am a doctoral candidate in African History here at Michigan State University. I also hold a Master’s in Comparative World History from George Mason University. In my graduate education, I have had the opportunity to work at two institutions which have demonstrated dedication to the application of digital methods…
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Welcome to the New 2013-2014 Cultural Heritage Informatics Grad Fellows
The Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative is pleased to welcome seven new CHI Grad Fellows for the 2013-2014 academic year. The new fellows come from the Departments of Anthropology, the Department of History, and the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures – and represent a wide variety of subdisciplines and areas of research. In the…
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Excavating the Digital Sub-Strata of an Archaeology Conference
The Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the American Philological Association (APA) was held January 3rd – 6th, 2013 in Seattle, Washington. I went to this annual meeting for a variety of reasons: 1) present my preliminary research findings on the Neolithic mortuary practices of southern Greece; 2) network with…
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“Visualizing Adderall” CHI Project Proposal
Introduction: From vitamins to painkillers to psychotropic drugs, consuming pills has become a normalized and even expected part of life for many Americans. In 2010, US pharmaceutical sales topped $300 billion dollars and continue to be one of the most profitable industries in the nation[i]. This unprecedented incorporation of prescription drugs into daily life has…
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The Tumulus Mapping Archive: Tumulus
Introduction The project that is emerging as a result of my CHI Fellowship is one related to my dissertation research in northern Albania. The tumuli (burial mounds) of northern Albania appeared suddenly on the Shkodër plain around the start of the Bronze Age (ca. 3000 BC). As a result of the ongoing Projekti Arkeologjikë i…