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Research Highlight: Matt Handelman-Below the Line
“Below the Line” (https://www.feuilletonproject.org/) provides open-access resources for those interested in learning more about the feuilleton—an arts and culture section of European newspapers popular before the Second World War—and its importance in the formation of modern Jewish cultures. The project aims to foster conversation about and research into the feuilleton as a historical forum that attracted many different types of writing, writers, and readers.
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Research Highlight: Marissa Knaak-Rebuilding Departments Stores in SketchUP.
This project is a 3D model, built in SketchUp, of the 1899 John Walsh department store in Sheffield, UK. Drawn from the architectural plans of Flockton, Gibbs & Flockton, accessed at the Sheffield Archives, I am attempting to create a general recreation of the building which was destroyed in 1940. This project is part of my dissertation, which is a comparative study of department and fashioning stores in Sheffield, UK and Cologne, Germany, as sites of industrialized labor at the turn of the twentieth century. Currently, the model is a work in progress, but has helped my conceptualize space and…
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Research Highlight: Adventurers, Friends, and Witnesses by Crystal VanKooten
Inspired by the stories of her extended family in Anchorage, Alaska, Crystal VanKooten at Michigan State University, documented the lives of three Alaskan nurses; Jacqueline Greenman, Anna Belle Engbers, and Marjorie VanKooten. These were American women of Dutch descent who lived in Alaska and worked at the Alaska Native Medical Center. In this website you can read all about their life stories from the Tuberculosis outbreak to the Great Alaskan Earthquake and the trials and tribulations that they’ve overcame.
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Research Highlight: Stratford Heritage Guide
Analysis of 19th-century guidebooks reveals how public understanding of Stratford’s monuments has evolved, demonstrating the subjective nature of the town’s relationship with Shakespeare.
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Project Highlight: The Travels of Lady Nijo: Pilgrimage, Travel, and Tourism in 13th and 14th Century Japan
The Confessions of Lady Nijo is a work written around 1307 by Lady Nijo, a Japanese noblewomen turned Buddhist monk.
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Research Highlight – Unlocking Squareland Mysteries: The Development of Squareland Digital Field Trips
With the DH Seed Grant, allowed the opportunity to think more creatively and expansively about how K-12 students engage with the landscapes, people and stories of KBS.
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Project Highlight: Archive of Malian Photography
Archive of Malian Photography provides access to preserved & digitized collections of five important photographers in Mali.
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Project Highlight: Marsh Time
Corey Marsh Ecological Research Center (CMERC) is a 400-acre parcel of land in Bath, Michigan, that is as noteworthy for its past as its future. The plot is the only remaining portion of the original MSU land grant that is non-contiguous with the East Lansing campus.
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Project Highlight: Mapping Michigan Menus
Mapping Michigan Menus began last summer with an exploration of available ways of “mapping” a food or drink menu, funded by a Digital Humanities Seed Grant.
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Project Highlight: The Green Book
The Green Book was a travel guide published between 1936 and 1966 that listed hotels, restaurants, bars, gas stations, etc. that Black travelers would be welcomed.
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Research Highlight: Internment Archaeology Digital Archive
The Internment Archaeology Digital Archive (IADA) project is a digital platform and website dedicated to sharing the stories of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated and interned during World War II in Idaho.
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Project: Citing Slavery
The legal profession must confront its role in slavery. Acknowledging and discussing the modern citation of slave cases is a first step.
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Project Highlight: Humanities Commons
Humanities Commons is an open, not-for-profit social and professional network and knowledge exchange environment for scholars, researchers, and practitioners across the humanities and around the world.
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Project Highlight: The Current
The Current is a unique publication that allows students to participate in every aspect of creating a printed magazine, from writing to editing and design.
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Research Highlight: The Cube
The Cube, a space for diverse ranges of people, places, and communities to participate in communications of all kinds, from traditional book production to user experience research to web and app development.
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Research Highlight: Zach Kaiser
This new book (in full color!) by DH@MSU faculty member, Zach Kaiser, is an interdisciplinary artist-scholar monograph, which examines the role of UX design in the production and legitimation of the idea that people are both computing and computable.
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Project Highlight: The American Religious Sounds Project
The American Religious Sounds Project (ARSP), is a collaborative research initiative co-directed by Amy DeRogatis (Michigan State University) and Isaac Weiner (Ohio State University), which aims to offer new resources for documenting and interpreting the diversity of American religious life by attending to its varied sonic cultures.
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Project Highlight: This is Indian Country
This is Indian Country is a digital cultural map of indigenous community issues worldwide. This project began as a collaborative project in Spring 2016 with Dr. Heather Howard’s ANP 433: Contemporary American Indian Communities class at Michigan State University.