Eric Rhodes (History, Class of 2016, Antioch College) “In 1988, Douglas Massey found the housing patterns in Dayton and its suburbs to be the third most racially segregated among the fifty largest metropolitain areas in the United States. According to Massey, the metropolitan areas with higher levels of racial segregation than Dayton were Cleveland, Ohio, […]
Fallingwater Digital: How One of the World’s Greatest Houses, Digital tools, and Collaboration Created Powerful Student Engagement
Janice Mann (Bucknell University) In the spring semester of 2015 I offered a project-based course focused on Frank Lloyd Wright’s celebrated Fallingwater, built in the Laurel Highlands about 40 miles away from Pittsburg for department store magnate Edgar Kaufmann in 1935. Although the class used Falllingwater as a point of departure, it was interdisciplinary in […]
Visualizing the Poetry of Michael Field
Sarah Kersh, Kathleen Jarman, and Georgia Christman (Dickinson College) During the summer of 2015, the Mellon Foundation Digital Humanities grant at Dickinson College, funded a project to produce an online, annotated edition of a volume of poems written by Michael Field and entitled Sight and Song (1892). “Michael Field” is actually the pseudonym of two […]
Making the Process Public: Collaboration, Performance Pedagogy, and Digital Director’s Books
Anjalee Deshpande Hutchinson (Bucknell University) Where are the intersections between digital scholarship and live performance pedagogy? Can digitizing some of the craft and process of theatre making offer opportunities for collaboration that can exceed what we have done in the past? Join Anjalee Deshpande Hutchinson as she details how digital literacy can be taught hand […]
Dreaming Too Big?: How Cross- and Intra-Institutional Collaboration Saved “Reading New York”
Melissa Dinsman (University of Notre Dame) and Elizabeth Rodrigues (Temple University) “Reading New York” is a collaborative digital research and teaching tool that has already failed twice and sparked a blog about DH failings. Now in its third iteration and on its second title, “Reading New York” has begun to gain momentum all thanks to […]
Building (Digital) Bridges: A Collaboration between Research and Teaching-Centered Institutions
Christina Boyles (University of Iowa) While many digital humanities projects involve collaboration, few have combined the efforts of large research institutions and small liberal arts colleges. With the assistance of the Mellon Foundation, however, the University of Iowa and Grinnell College have established such a partnership, seeking “to weave the digital humanities more deeply and […]
Bigger than the Sum of its Parts: A Collaborative Conference Structure and Student Empowerment to Engage
Donnie Sendelbach (DePauw University), Jacob Heil (Five Colleges of Ohio), Gregory Lord (Hamilton College), and Taylor Mills (Hope College) Small, residential campuses provide an environment for intensive undergraduate-faculty research, albeit usually based on the faculty member’s work with the student undertaking a branch of it. How do we create the scaffolding for students to take […]
Lessons Learned: Engaging Online Students in Effective Engaged Scholarship Experiences
Emily Baxter (The Pennsylvania State University) Penn State defines engagement as, “…the scholarship of teaching, research, and creative accomplishment, as well as service that involves citizens and the University working in partnership to create and apply knowledge that addresses pressing societal issues and strengthens civic responsibility and democracy through mutually beneficial relationships. In the broadest […]
Text Encoding with Marie de France
Mackenzie Brooks, Stephen McCormick, and Sarah Schaffer (Washington and Lee University) In this collaborative presentation, a French professor, a Digital Humanities librarian, and an undergraduate French minor from Washington and Lee University will speak about their experience combining two courses, an advanced French literature course with a one-credit Digital Humanities lab (DH Studio). In the […]
Coincidental Collaborations: Bridging Communities of Practice on the Liberal Arts Campus
Stephen Flynn, William Rial, and Sofia Visa (College of Wooster) This presentation offers perspectives from the College of Wooster’s Computer Science and Library faculties on the development of a project that will ultimately result in digital editions of Madeleine de Scudéry’s series of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century _Conversations_. French Professor Laura Burch, after teaching from PDF […]
Digital Editions of Primary Documents: A Collaborative Modern Approach to Ancient Texts
Claude Hanley, Stephanie Neville, Charlie Shufeider, and Alex Simrell (College of the Holy Cross) The Holy Cross Manuscripts, Inscriptions, and Documents (MID) Club encourages undergraduates to pursue original research, in collaboration with faculty members, in codicology, epigraphy, paleography, and various languages. Our research, focused on faithfully recording every scribal mark on various antique primary sources, […]
A Room of One’s Own: Creating Place for the Queer Studies History at Denison University
Sheilah Wilson and Shannon Robinson (Denison University) The Queer Studies program at Denison University has a history that includes: inception in 2000, a close call with dissolution in 2009, and the current re-emergence with many highly engaged students and faculty contributing to the thriving program. In 2014, a grant was awarded to create a digital […]