Who will read my academic book? Telling public stories about Africa and Africans
As a graduate student 90+% of the way through writing my dissertation, I often have ask myself this question: how many people will ever read anything I write? My dissertation will be read by my...
View ArticleWhat does Digital Humanities mean to you?
A few days ago, in the office, my co-workers referred to me as the “DH person”. “The DH group” is also used to refer to the scholars on MSU campus who work with Digital Humanities. On the one hand, I...
View ArticleTeaching Early African History/Studies with a Digital Lens
I recently attended a panel on teaching pre-1800 African history using digital humanities. The panel focused on early African history, but some of the presentations ignored the digital humanities...
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Hitting the Proverbial Wall
I think there is a point in time that every novice reaches in technical projects when they wonder..will I actually successfully complete this project? This is my current mental state in my...
View ArticleThe Challenge of Language
When I decided to use my CHI Fellowship to chronicle and disseminate the stories of individual migrants, my greatest question was the problem of language. My wider research focuses on the experience...
View ArticleMaking my Dissertation Digital
Have you ever tried to explain your dissertation to your family? Your students? Strangers or acquaintances you barely know? This is a trying task. My dissertation focuses on mobility and migration...
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Introducing the Peruvian Origins Informatics Project!
I am excited to finally launch the “Peruvian Origins Informatics Project” for public viewing. This website was designed to illustrate material culture of the pre-ceramic inter-zonal connection between...
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The Launch of MapMorph
MapMorph: Teaching Human Variation is pedagogical tool for teaching the history and implications of race theory in biological anthropology, as well as the causative forces controlling human variation...
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Daniel Fandino and CHI Part III: Days of Futures Past
Greetings once again fellow traveler on the great ocean of knowledge that is the internet! I am Daniel Fandino, a third year PhD student with the History Department at Michigan State University....
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Hi from Elise Dixon — Senior CHI Fellow
Hi all! My name is Elise Dixon. I’m a 5th year PhD candidate in Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures, and a second-year returning fellow at CHI. I’m thrilled to be back at CHI– it has been one of...
View Article3DMMS Initiative: Summer Expansion
This summer I am working on an extension of my 2020-2021 CHI Fellowship project: 3D MMS Initiative. This website was initially created with the focus of disseminating a pedagogical tool for users to...
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Extension of 3DMMS-Initiative
With the end of the summer comes the culmination of my CHI Fellowship summer project. As an extension of my 2020-2021 CHI Fellowship, I spent the past few months making 3DMMS-Initiative.com a more...
View ArticleIntroducing Myself: An Archaeologist Learning Digital Tools
My name is Jeff Burnett, a fourth-year doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology and an incoming CHI Fellow. When not in CHI I work as Campus Archaeologist, a student position in MSU’s Campus...
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Micayla Spiros | Returning CHI Fellow 2021-2022
Hello, again! My name is Micayla Spiros and I have accepted a Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative returning fellow position this year. I am a fourth year biological anthropology doctoral student...
View ArticleVision, Fellowship, & Planning
In the CHI fellowship, during the first semester we carry out rapid development project challenges with a team of fellows. Last year, the CHI fellowship was completely online due to COVID-19. While...
View ArticleAnnouncing “Forensic Anthropology: A History”
This year I will be creating a website focused on the development of forensic anthropology. A bit different from my CHI project last year (3DMMS Initiative), the motivation of this project is to use...
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Plotting Colombian Emblematic Memories
I am making a sudden thematic shift this month. Instead of talking about digital humanities and their potential, I am sharing the project that I will complete during the Spring semester. “Plotting...
View ArticleBack to Virtual | Quick Transitions
With the COVID-19 pandemic beginning in the spring of 2020, educators had to learn quickly how to adapt to virtual learning in a world that quickly became isolated. As teachers and students alike...
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Memory Mapping
As the work progresses on the framework for my map of property ownership in the Highlands area of Oak Bluffs, I can now start focusing the ways in which additional types of data will be added to the...
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Launching the Oak Bluffs Historic Highlands Map
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...
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