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, […]
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 […]
Creating a Digital Environment for Engaging Students, Teachers, and Researchers in Medieval Literature
Michael McGuire and Olga Scrivner (Indiana University) Medieval literature in the digital community is in general underrepresented and when available often exists in less interactive and useable forms such as raw archived images. This is especially problematic for less commonly studied languages where fewer people are able to read and interpret the original text. Although […]
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 […]
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 […]
The History Harvest: Undergraduate Engagement with Local Community Histories
Brandon Locke (Michigan State University), Jacob Friefeld, and Ashlee Anderson (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) History Harvest (http://historyharvest.unl.edu) is a collaborative, team-oriented, student-centered and community-based project that contributes to the democratization and accessibility of American history by collecting and sharing the experiences and artifacts of everyday people and local historical institutions in an open web archive. […]
Small Places Contain Worlds of Their Own: Transforming Local History into Public Scholarship
Rob Sieczkiewicz, Edward Slavishak, Marie Wagner, Rachel Baer, and Amber Peretin (Susquehanna University) In this work-in-progress session, Susquehanna University faculty, students and staff will explore how a new campus-wide Omeka program transformed a Pennsylvania history course. The faculty member will discuss the origins of the project as an exercise to change students’ perception of local history […]
In Search of Symmetry: Integrating the Library with Undergraduate DH Instruction
BUDSC15-InSearchOfSymmetryDale Askey, Jason Brodeur, Paige Morgan (McMaster University) In Winter 2015, McMaster University’s Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship offered an inaugural introduction to digital humanities course for undergraduates. Based entirely within the University Library, the course used library resources and was led by an instructional team of six library staff members with varying areas of […]
The Musical Geography of 1924 Paris: Archival Research through Collaborative Mapping
Philip Claussen, Natalie Kopp, and Breanna Olson (St. Olaf College) Though sound is at the center of music historical research, the sounds of the past remain elusive to scholars and students. Traditional media through which scholarship works – including books and lectures – offer at best a remote, second-hand experience of the concerts, personalities, and […]
Models of Student Engagement in DH at Lafayette College
Emily McGinn, Feevan Megersa, Jethro Israel, and Ian Morse (Lafayette College) In developing the digital humanities efforts on campus, Lafayette’s Digital Scholarship Services has been extending its focus from faculty driven projects to also include student research through our DH in the Classroom initiative and our DH Summer Scholars Program, an intensive internship where students […]