Category: History
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Digital Humanities & Methods: Mapping Social Networks and Indigenous Legal Culture in Colonial Mexico
About a year ago, I became interested in mapping as a research tool. Since then, I have met and talked to many other graduate students, professors, and researchers who work on amazing projects. We shared ideas, plans, (and beers), and talked about difficulties and problems we encountered in our work. There are so many interesting […]
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Call for Articles: “Modernism across the Arts: Charting Pirandello’s World” (PSA Vol. XXXI)
The Pirandello Society of America is pleased to announce that we are now accepting submissions for our next issue of PSA, the Society’s journal. See the Society’s website for additional information: http://pirandellosociety.org/ Call for Articles and Contributions for PSA XXXI (2018) Co-editors: Lisa Sarti and Michael Subialka In light of growing attention to the multimedia […]
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How to Use OER Games in the Classroom
How to use OER Games in the College Classroom Amy Hildreth Chen Play is fundamental to learning; so fundamental, in fact, that play is how animals, not just humans learn. While a wide range of pedagogical approaches, institutes, and other opportunities exist to facilitate play experiences in the classroom, most resources are devoted to […]
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Postcolonial DH: An Interview with Roopika Risam
POSTCOLONIAL DH: AN INTERVIEW WITH ROOPIKA RISAM By: Sylvia Fernández Roopika Risam is an Assistant Professor of English and Secondary English Education, Salem State University. Currently, she serves as Assistant Professor of English, Faculty Fellow for Digital Library Initiatives, Coordinator of the Digital Studies Graduate Certificate Program, and Coordinator of the B.A./M.Ed. English Education program at Salem […]
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Empty Spaces?: Indigenous Peoples and Euro-American Maps of the Colonial Southwest
In my research on eighteenth-century Spanish Louisiana and Texas, I ask how ethnicity and race shaped discourses on migration and border-security. I examine how Spanish officials engaged native communities as border patrols to control Anglo-American immigration, while at the same time recruiting European immigrants to infringe on native territories. When I started this research last […]
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When Historians go to a Geographer’s Conference…
We all like to talk about interdisciplinary work. In fact, “interdisciplinary” (or even better: “transdisciplinary”) is a buzzword that PhD students are advised to sprinkle over their grant applications. As a second-year PhD student in history, I found myself intrigued by the many promises of interdisciplinary work. Yet… when it came to implementing those theoretical […]
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OAH18: Digital Public Humanities for Historians
At the 2018 Organization of American Historians conference, I presented a paper alongside Matthew Reeves and fellow HASTAC Scholar Marc Reyes on the panel “Intersections Digital And Public: Emerging Perspectives On Digital Pedagogy, Scholarship, And Audience Engagement.” As a panel, we sought to build on developments in history graduate programs to articulate how the increasing intersection of public and digital […]
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Mellon Foundation Grant to Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library Will Catalyze New Scholarship on American Women’s Suffrage and the Still-Unrealized Promise of Female Citizenship
Mellon Foundation Grant to Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library Will Catalyze New Scholarship on American Women’s Suffrage and the Still-Unrealized Promise of Female Citizenship Cambridge, MA—April 17, 2018. The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has received a grant of $870,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. […]
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“The Artist Must Take Sides: Paul Robeson and the Paradox of Justice
I’m so glad we watched “Here I Stand,” the documentary film based on Robeson’s autobiography of the same title. Having read the the book, the film brought to life so many of Robeson’s words–words I understand as important declarations concerning freedom, black humanity, and the role of the artist in shaping the world. Reading the […]
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Park Central Mall Scalar Project Step 1: Developing site architecture, sorting media assets, setting deadlines
Last week the Park Central Mall team members and I got together to discuss the next step in the project, which is the creation of a multimedia presentation of the interesting photos, articles, and oral histories that were curated after sifting through the 18 scrapbooks found in the mall basement. After conversing with Dr. Matthew […]