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Movements through Time and Space: Visualizing a Literary Journey by Ethnic Koreans in China
Seed Grant Summer 2022 Report Catherine Ryu and Olivia Hale Project Description Our project’s main goal in the summer of 2022 was to pilot a viable digital humanities approach to visualizing the movements through time and space in the writings by ethnic Koreans in China (Map 1-a). This diasporic community is situated in the area […]
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Materializing Multiple Futures: Printing Jatayu’s Wing
Summer 2021 Seed Grant Funding Submitted by Jessica Stokes The project Wingin’ It: A Material Re-Storying the Ramayana is an attempt to make material and tangible parts of a speculative cinema piece and role-playing game crafted around the vulture Jatayu. An exalted character in the Ramayana epic tradition, the vulture Jatayu is known for his […]
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Superheroes Die in the Summer
Seed Grant Summer 2021 Report Submitted by Kate Birdsall The Cube The Cube, in its role as the only publishing nexus of its kind at MSU, currently has three distinct operational wings that provide significant experiential learning, mentorship, and professional development opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. In its second operational wing, The Cube’s director, […]
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Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico (AREPR)
Summer 2021 Seed Grant Funding Submitted by Christina Boyles Summer 2021 Highlights: Hosting 2 workshops to train students and community partners on best practices for collaboration, collection, and technology. Developing customized themes and modules for Omeka S to support multilingual and community-based project work with the support of our developer, Ivy Rose. Developing a metadata […]
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CURBED3: Using DH Visualization to Understand Location, Cultural Identity, and the Public Imaginary
Summer 2020 Seed Grant Funding Report Submitted by Divya Victor, Julian Chambliss, and Natalie Phillips Overview & Project Goals Inspired by Professor Divya Victor’s forthcoming book Curb (2021), CURBED3 is a web-based multimedia space that seeks to visualize instances of racial othering in the United States. The DH@MSU Summer Seed Grant supported Digital Humanities and […]
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Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico
Summer 2020 Seed Grant Funding Report Submitted by Christina Boyles Puerto Rico’s recent spate of natural and man-made disasters has led to greater public attention on governmental disaster-response methods–prioritization of urban centers, slow distribution of resources, and limited communication with those in need–often leaving marginalized and vulnerable communities to fend for themselves. Individuals and communities […]
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Transferring the website “Legacies of Enlightenment” to Humanities Commons
Summer 2020 Seed Grant Funding Report Submitted by Valentina Denzel, Tracy Rustler, and Michael Stokes The DH@MSU summer seed grant allocated during the summer of 2020, allowed Valentina, Tracy, and Michael to migrate the website “Legacies of the Enlightenment: Humanity, Nature, and Science in a Changing Climate” to Humanities Commons (an open access, open source […]
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“Level 101: A Video Game About Video Games”-Game Development in a Global Pandemic
Summer 2020 Seed Grant Funding Report Submitted by Justin Wigard Prior to receiving the 2020 DH Summer Seed Grant, I was the recipient of a 2018 DH Summer Seed Grant, and that report can be found here. Since 2018, this project has grown from a pedagogical DH project into my dissertation; as such, I applied […]
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Visualizing German-Jewish Intellectual Life in the Twentieth Century
Summer 2019 Seed Grant Funding Report Submitted by Ryan Carty and Matthew Handelman In the summer of 2019, the DH@MSU Summer Seed Grant enabled Ryan and Matt to build the code for prototype visualizations of archival data of German-Jewish intellectual correspondences during the Weimar Republic. This work is part of a larger, ongoing project, also […]
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The Collapse of the USSR: A Living Archive on the End of the USSR and Afterward
Summer 2019 Seed Grant Funding Report Submitted by Martha Olcott The funding that I received from the Digital Humanities program helped support my attendance at the European Summer University in Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig, where I completed the 2-week course on Humanities Data and Mapping Environments, and supported some of the cost […]