For my QGis mapping project, I mapped the migration patterns of the Chewa and Chikunda ethnic groups to Zimbabwe between 1900-1970. The primary objective of my capstone project was to develop a map that helps illustrate and visualize the argument I make in my dissertation. The map was the best suitable visual mode because itContinue reading “Migration Mapping Journey: Engaging with digital tools and progressing”

My digital certificate journey is coming to an end. As I continue to work on my dissertation, I will continue to think about the skills I have learned working with the digital studio team. When I started my project, my goals were: 1. learn to scrape data from posts and comment sections from two mainContinue reading “Reflecting on digital publishing accessibility and academic publishing”

Working on my digital capstone project has been a lesson not only in creating digital exhibits, but in flexibility. During the summer of 2022 I thought that I had developed the perfect plan for a digital capstone. I wanted to do a theatre archiving project using the works of Iowa-born playwright Susan Glaspell. My initialContinue reading “Embracing flexibility in my capstone Project”

Adding my graduate studies to my already packed schedule was not a decision I came to lightly. In addition to my studies at the University’s School of Library Information and Sciences (SLIS), I’m also employed full-time as a Public Services Librarian. These past two years, fast as they seem in retrospect, was a journey intoContinue reading “Words of Art: Archiving North Liberty Library Artists”

I am a History Ph.D. student writing a dissertation that analyzes a migrant community in the Mazoe district of Zimbabwe in Africa. The Capstone project I am working on is a flow map that will become a part of my dissertation. Integral to the dissertation thesis I am developing are discussions of relationships between theContinue reading “Mapping Connections in the Zambezi Basin, Southern Africa “

As a historian, I sometimes struggle to portray different historical eras as they were experienced by the people who lived in them. Historical analyses reflect the historians’ modern biases, and there has been a conscious effort by the field to provide agency to the sources we study.   This project is part of an effort toContinue reading “Tales From Oil Country”

My dissertation, “Messengers and Messages in Middle English Literature,” examines the under-explored role of messengers in fourteenth-century English romances, where they often prove to be crucial elements of the plot or interesting stand-ins for an authorial function. During my capstone experience, I will be pursuing corpus linguistic investigations, with the help of the Digital Studio’sContinue reading “Mining for Medieval Messengers”

I am in my last semester of coursework and currently working on my prospectus, which allows me more time to think about how my dissertation will take shape. In this project, I am developing codes to scrap data on two Chinese websites, Weibo (a social media platform) and Bilibili (a video-sharing platform). I have beenContinue reading “Public Digital Humanities Capstone Post #1”