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Launching J-Skel
I am very proud to announce the launch of J-Skel: The Digital Ages Estimator of Subadult Skeletons at j-skel.matrix.msu.edu! I designed this website with the goal of]-o0 acquainting upper-level...
View ArticleLaunching the Timeline of Michigan Archaeology
The Timeline of Michigan Archaeology has officially launched! You can find it at timemarch.matrix.msu.edu. Overall, I’m pretty happy with how it turned out, and I hope you are too. You can scroll...
View ArticleLaunching NorrisTown!
Welcome to NorrisTown! This work of love (literally) has taken a long time. This will be updated through the summer as I find and digitize more material, so I would really appreciate your feedback,...
View ArticleLaunching Listen to Lansing!
This project is a website showcasing the results of a study I am in the process of conducting with colleagues in the Michigan State Sociolinguistics Lab. For this project, we are investigating...
View ArticleNationalism and Constructing the Nation in Norwegian Museums
As a continuation of my examination of Norwegian national identity and the various medium in which this can occur, during this summer I expanded my project site to go beyond looking at literature for...
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Introducing CHI Fellow Nicole A. Raslich
Hello everyone, my name is Nicole A. Raslich and I am excited to be a CHI fellow this year. The department of Anthropology here at MSU is my home, where I am a PhD. candidate. My training is in...
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(Re)Introducing CHI Fellow Jack Biggs
Greetings everyone! My name is Jack Biggs and if my name sounds familiar, that is because I was a CHI Fellow during the last academic year and was fortunate enough the be a returning Fellow for this...
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Introducing CHI Fellow Daniel Fandino
Greetings traveler on the great ocean of knowledge that is the internet! My name is Daniel Fandino and I am a first year PhD student in the Department of History at Michigan State University and a 2017...
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Introducing CHI Fellow Cody Mejeur
Hi Everyone! I’m Cody Mejeur, and I’m extremely excited to be joining the CHI Fellows program for 2017-18. I’m a PhD student in the Department of English at MSU working at the intersection of many...
View ArticleDigitizing our Cultural Heritage
My own recent ethnohistoric research for family genealogy made me think about ChiMatrix and the need to digitize old documents public documents. Anyone who has ever used county libers will agree but...
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Cat memes and Identity – Archives and Digital Worlds
The reason why I wanted to do this fellowship was not only to expand my knowledge of computational/digital methods of approaching cultural heritage questions but also to have this methodological...
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Introducing Elise Dixon (CHI Fellow)
Hi Everyone! I’m Elise Dixon and I am a third-year PhD student in the Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures program. I am very excited to be a part of the 2017-2018 Cultural Heritage Informatics...
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The Future of the Past
Archaeologists and anthropologist back in the day (say around the later Victorian era and the early 20th century) had it easy in terms of research and methodologies. Study subjects and specimens were...
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HASTAC 2017, Twine, and Empowering Student Voices
The HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) 2017 conference is already starting to feel like a distant memory, but as always it was a fantastic opportunity to meet...
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Open data and 3D Printing
I’m a Teaching Assistant for an Intro to Physical Anthropology course and during their last week of classes before the final, we have a lab activity set up for them where we bring in fossil hominin...
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Digital Narratives of The Disappeared
Since I’m a returning CHI Fellow for this school year, I wanted to do something quite different compared to my project from last school year. That previous project is called J-Skel and it is an online...
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Supporting Inclusive, Interdisciplinary Game Studies
It’s no secret that gaming cultures and communities—including game studies—have longstanding issues with inclusion, especially inclusion of marginalized and underrepresented peoples. The most apparent...
View ArticleQueer (World) Making
In my previous posts, I’ve outlined some of the ways making and multimodal composing offer up spaces for people to make in order to make their worlds. In my last post, I articulated what I think are...
View ArticleThe LGBTQ Video Game Archive and Visualizing Representation
The nascent field of queer game studies has expanded exponentially in recent years thanks to the work of scholars such as Adrienne Shaw, Bonnie Ruberg, and Edmond Chang. Yet, despite growing scholarly...
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Tokyo: The Virtual City
In May of 2017 while in Tokyo I visited Meiji shrine in Shinjuku for the Spring Grand Festival, a series of traditional performances including dance, archery and theater. After returning home, I posted...
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