Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative

Tag: CHI Fellows

  • Morgan Hill | CHI Fellow 2023-2024

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    Hello everyone, I’m Morgan Hill, currently a second year MFA graduate with a concentration in Studio Arts. I am born and raised in Baltimore County, Maryland, but also frequent to the DC and NYC area. I graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Towson University and decided to pursue an MFA to cultivate my…

  • Aubree Marshall, CHI 2023-2024 Grad Fellow

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    Hi everyone! My name is Aubree Marshall, and I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student in anthropology. More specifically, my specialty lies in bioarchaeology. By studying human remains from archaeological contexts, we can learn more about past behaviors and lived experiences of those individuals and populations studied. My research area is in Mesoamerica, specifically in Belize,…

  • Introducing “Graduate Labor Rising”

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    Happy May Day! I am pleased to announce the launch of my 2022-2023 project, Graduate Labor Rising. This website traces the development of graduate labor unions across the US, their roots in radical labor traditions, and their turn towards justice-oriented bargaining, then shares a library of collective bargaining agreements to aid current and future graduate…

  • Map Style Challenges and Mysteries

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    Last Friday the CHI Fellows continued work on our Mapping Memory project, getting into the actual coding and design of our map. Because we are working in a large group, we identified the three main tasks (design, data entry, and time slider building) and subdivided into three teams, each working on one of those elements.…

  • Fishing for Fun in Building a Pitch Website

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    Over the past couple of weeks, the fellows in the CHI lab have been working through the process of taking an idea for a digital heritage project from vision, to vision document, and then to the creation of a pitch website. As part of the group developing an idea for the Reykjavik Maritime Museum, I…

  • Troubleshooting DH Projects

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    In discussing DH pedagogy, it feels inevitable that whatever project you’re working on will “break” – technically speaking – during the semester. Although some DH scholars have made compelling arguments about the utility of failure when employing DH tools in the classroom, if the course is not designed to be DH at its core, I…

  • Learning Curves, Hindsight, and Setting Goals

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    It’s October again, which means it’s time for the mid-semester crunch! Right now in the CHI calendar, we’re working through a series of rapid development challenges, most of which focus on the technical skills we’ll need to complete our projects. In addition to brushing up on our coding and design abilities, these challenges can help…

  • Greetings, CHI Community!

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    Greetings, CHI Community! My name is Cara Jacob, I am a fifth-year PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology, and I am incredibly excited to be a CHI Fellow for the very first time. In my research, I use a Feminist Political Ecology framework to understand and explain the gendered and racialized impacts of urban water insecurity…

  • Hello again, CHI!

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    Hello again, CHI! My name is Vee Lawson, a returning CHI Fellow for 2022-23 and a fourth-year PhD candidate in Writing and Rhetoric. Last year, I had the privilege of learning from an incredible cohort of colleagues across a range of academic fields, and I look forward to doing the same this year! In my…

  • Launching the Oak Bluffs Historic Highlands Map

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    Today is launch day and I am sharing completed my mapping project for the CHI 2021 – 2022 fellowship. For my Oak Bluffs Historic Highlands project, I have built the framework for a map that uses publicly available deed documents to represent the history of landownership in the Highlands area of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, a…