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Author: Emily Sherwood

  • Digital Editions of Primary Documents: A Collaborative Modern Approach to Ancient Texts

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    Emily Sherwood

    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,…

  • Swarthmore Projects for Educational Exploration and Development (SPEED): Promoting Public Scholarship in the Liberal Arts

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    Emily Sherwood

    Nabil Kashyap and Roberto Vargas (Swarthmore College) Swarthmore Projects for Educational Exploration and Development (SPEED) is an initiative jointly administered by Swarthmore Libraries and Information Technology Services. Loosely based on the agile development model, SPEED provides dedicated staff and student intern support for accepted proposals during an eight-week summer period in order to design and…

  • No money? No credit? No problem! Building A Successful Digital Scholarship Fellowship Program With Limited Resources

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    Emily Sherwood

    Michael Zarafonetis (Haverford College) The Haverford College Digital Scholarship Fellows program launched in the fall of 2014, and is set to enter year two in the fall of 2015. The program is a collaboration of Haverford Libraries Digital Scholarship, the Office of Academic Resources, the Center for Career and Professional Advising, and the Writing Center.…

  • A Room of One’s Own: Creating Place for the Queer Studies History at Denison University

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    Emily Sherwood

    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…

  • Using Historypin to Engage Students at the Archives

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    Emily Sherwood

    Donna Baker (Albert Gore Research Center at Middle Tennessee State University) In the 2013 spring semester, the Albert Gore Research Center at Middle Tennessee State University uploaded material to Historypin, a crowdsource platform for historical materials. Instead of populating the center’s profile with collection highlights selected by staff, the students of Dr. Mary Hoffschwelle’s Tennessee…

  • The Musical Geography of 1924 Paris: Archival Research through Collaborative Mapping

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    Emily Sherwood

    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…

  • Friendship and Diversity: Philosophical and Geographical Considerations

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    Emily Sherwood

    Sheila Lintott and Melissa Eng (Bucknell University) Employing an interdisciplinary approach involving philosophy and geography, we are investigating diversity in friendship given the claim that friendship is circumstantial. We begin our study by distributing a three-part survey to students at Bucknell University in order to gather a variety of data types. The quantitative web-based questionnaire aims to…

  • Models of Student Engagement in DH at Lafayette College

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    Emily Sherwood

    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…

  • From Historic Buildings to Murder and Mayhem: The Evolution of Wooster Digital History

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    Emily Sherwood

    Katherine Holt, Anna Claspy, Brandon Bell, and Colleen Gilfether (The College of Wooster) For three summers teams of undergraduates from the College of Wooster have been at work on Wooster Digital History (www.woosterhistory.org), a project that has grown from curated exhibits to more mature collections, mapping exercises, and web-based town tours. The project began as…

  • New Orleans in 12 Movements

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    Emily Sherwood

    Brian Gockley and David Gockley (Bucknell University) In summer 2012, Bucknell’s instructional technology group began working with Profs. Kevin Gilmore (Civil Engineering), Barry Long (Music) and Brian Gockley (Teaching & Learning Center) on developing materials for the new Integrated Perspectives (IP) course, ‘New Orleans in 12 Movements,’ offered for the first time in summer 2014.…

  • Pennsylvania Health Atlas/RESC098 ‘The Future is Now’

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    Emily Sherwood

    Amy Wolaver, Jon Walls, Mike McGowan, and Noelle Watters (Bucknell University) Healthcare costs are higher in the United States than any other country and are rising faster than all other countries. A primary influence on costs in the US are hospitalizations. Identifying ways to reduce the number of hospitalizations could reduce the cost of healthcare…

  • Authoritarianism and Development: A Spatial Analysis of Uganda by Sub-County

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    Emily Sherwood

    John Doces and Erik Heinemann (Bucknell University) In Africa, a common theme in development is that authoritarianism has been detrimental to development. In particular, arguments about the nature of this relationship focus on the role of the African “Big Man” and the effect of patronage politics viewing the situation as one in which people connected…

  • Performing Collaborative Scholarship

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    Emily Sherwood

    Christopher P. Long is Associate Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Education and Professor of Philosophy and Classics in the College of the Liberal Arts at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of an enhanced digital book, Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading (Cambridge, 2014), and two other monographs, Aristotle…

  • Environmental Activism in Central PA

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    Emily Sherwood

    Amanda Wooden, Nicole Bakeman, and Jaclyn Tules (Bucknell University) Over the past five years, Bucknell University has made a strategic investment in integrating GIS and digital scholarship across the undergraduate curriculum in teaching and research.  We believe that applying GIS and digital scholarship methods broadens and deepens the learning experience for faculty and students alike…

  • Using Scalar to Create Dynamic Textbooks

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    Emily Sherwood

    Vimala C. Pasupathi (Hofstra University) In this digital poster, I will share Writing With Substance, an anti-textbook of sorts that I wrote using the platform Scalar. My interest in writing an electronic textbook for my First-Year Writing course was inspired in part by my growing desire to flee the textbook industry, whose profits and practices had…

  • Student-Based Digital Data Collection in Archaeological Field Schools

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    Emily Sherwood

    Benjamin Carter and Timothy Clarke (Muhlenberg College) Archaeological field schools pose distinct challenges for data collection. First and foremost, because archaeology is context dependent, the process is inherently destructive; the removal of objects from the earth (i.e., excavation) destroys their contextual data which is only preserved through accurate recording. Therefore, systems must be developed that…

  • The Digital Opportunities: Train Students for Historical Research in the Digital Age

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    Emily Sherwood

    Song Chen (Bucknell University) To train students for research is a challenge. It is more so in the field of non-Western history because of the additional language barriers. The conventional answer to this challenge is translation. Since the late nineteenth century, missionaries and scholars have been translating classical works from Chinese intellectual and literary traditions.…

  • Public Digital Scholarship: Engaging Faculty in Student Research

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    Emily Sherwood

    Benjamin Rowles, Adam Haley and Chris Long (Penn State) In the context of modern technologies, “public” and “digital” scholarship are inextricably linked. The possibilities for openness offered by digital tools increase the pressure to make research more accessible, posing questions about the incentives for and the potential scope of public digital scholarship and research. For…

  • Mapping the Susquehanna Valley

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    Emily Sherwood

    Katherine Faull, Henry Stann, and Alexa Gorski (Bucknell University) This summer our research team has created a database of historically significant locations and events to Native Americans within a five-mile corridor along the West Branch of the Susquehanna River between the years of 1650-1800. This time frame is also referred to as the pre-contact and…