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Fall '17 Digital Scholarship Achievements

December 12, 2017

and read more about Digital Scholarship, Student, and Faculty Achievements from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Digital Scholarship Specialist Alicia Peaker was chair of the Digital Humanities Conference at McGill University, Montreal in July, where she also presented "The Environmental and Human Costs of Digital Humanities." Dr. Peaker also presented "Models for Digital Humanities Programs at the Digital Humanities & Pedagogy Symposium at Misericordia University and led the graduate workshop 鈥淐reating Professional Websites for the Job Market鈥 at 麻豆视频 in September.

In December, the Graduate Community of Learning Digital Scholarship Program, hosted by Alicia Peaker, held a 鈥淐offee and Research Slam鈥 featuring graduate student presentations of ongoing research. 础谤肠丑补别辞濒辞驳测鈥檚 Shannon Dunn presented part of her Master鈥檚 thesis research in 鈥淧oseidon in the Saronic Gulf: Regional Variance in Coastal Sanctuaries.鈥 Classics鈥 Stella Fritzell presented 鈥淐yclical Violence in Greek Tragedy and Lanthimos鈥 Dogtooth (2009).鈥 Andrea Samz-Pustol presented a section of her Master鈥檚 thesis research in 鈥淭he Transport of Quarried Stone in Agrigento, Syracuse and Selinunte, Sicily: A Landscape Approach.鈥 History of Art鈥檚 Michelle Smiley presented part of her dissertation research in 鈥淏ecoming Photography: The American Development of a Medium.鈥 Rachel Starry of Archaeology presented part of her dissertation research in 鈥淎nalyzing Urban Space in Roman Lycia.鈥

Jess Linker, CLIR Humanities and Digital Scholarship Postdoctoral Fellow, held several introductory workshops on building HTML websites for students in the 麻豆视频 community.

础谤肠丑补别辞濒辞驳测鈥檚 Rachel Starry held biweekly Community of Learning seminars on the computer programming language R for faculty, staff, graduate students, and undergraduates.

In October, Elena Gittleman, Matthew Jameson, Laurel McLaughlin, and Mechella Yezernitskaya gave joint presentations sharing their experiences creating digital exhibitions. Matthew and Elena shared 3D models, constructed through photogrammetry, as part of the digital exhibition Fragmentary Excess: Body Text, Receptacle as part of the Graduate Group Symposium. Laurel and Mechella discussed their work creating the digital accompaniment to their dual-sited physical exhibition Beyond Boundaries: Feminine Forms.

Rachel Starry and Andrew Tharler presented on the The Carpenter Carrel Project, a project conducted jointly with fellow Digital Scholarship graduate assistants Stella Fritzell, Elena Gittleman, and Nathanael Roesch. Rachel and Andrew shared the discovery and research process behind the鈥,鈥痑 pedagogical exercise in which students mapped and visualized subjects of books checked out to individual carrels in Carpenter.