There is a question I’ve continually returned to over the past eight weeks. What is the relationship between the past and the present? When someone thinks of reparations, the first question that might come to mind could be, what is Black America owed? However, throughout my summer fellowship, I found how one answers the formerContinue reading “Creative Coding and Reparations: A Final Reflection”

For my summer digital fellowship, I proposed to work on my research – “gender differences in imprisonment with an analysis of state-level and overtime data.” In this blog posting, I would like to share my experiences and lessons throughout my summer digital fellowship.   (1) Consistent work with emotional support: This summer digital fellowship enabledContinue reading “My Experiences with the Summer Digital Fellowship”

https://youtu.be/RieWjOkmBko Humanities scholars traditionally explain their arguments through text written form, and they use visual effects as evidence to support the written argument. Nathan Yau argues that data visualization in digital humanities transforms the presentation of scholarly arguments by giving scholars the room to make visual arguments [1].   Elizabeth L. Eisenstein quoted in Stephan Tanaka’s article explains that “all view of history has been fundamentally shaped by the way records are duplicated, knowledge transmitted, and information stored and retrieved” [2].  TheContinue reading “Reflecting on the experience of creating a visual argument”

In my initial blog post, I reflected on finding the balance between artistic and academic digital reconstructions, hoping to engage with the topic more closely throughout my project, and I am rather pleased with how it turned out. It is nearly impossible to create strictly academic 3D models. The more I studied the archaeological drawingsContinue reading “3D Modeling Project Thoughts and Reflection”

Although we still have a couple of weeks left of the Summer Studio Fellowship experience, I’d like to use this blog post to think through some of my overall takeaways from my time working on my project, which is a series of data visualizations and video essays on the racial and gender politics of theContinue reading “Reflecting on my Studio Experience”

As introduced in the last post, my project examines the discourse of personal control in published newspaper articles from 1979 to 2019. I am interested in 1) exploring the different life aspects in which people discuss sense of control and their variation in prevalence over time; 2) concepts that people consider similar or related withContinue reading “More on Discourse of Personal Control in Newspaper (1979-2019)”

For this project, I’m working on a virtual reality video essay on the anti-Blackness and transphobia I have experienced in medical spaces, with the help of the Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio, and under the guidance of both my point-of-contact, Alyssa Varner, and my thesis advisor, Inara Verzemnieks. For more info on this nascent project,Continue reading “Medical Racism and Horror: A Virtual Reality Video Essay”

Thanks to the Studio Summer Fellowship, I have had a deeply meaningful scholarly experience and learned four lessons about digital work in the academy.     Lesson 1: Value Process Over Product My intention at the start of this summer was to build a map that visualized the recent history of the public higher educationContinue reading “Lessons Learned Doing Digital Work”

Exploring the complexities of space and place are the foundations of my Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio Fellowship project The Midwest is Easy to See. This digital exhibition features a series of artworks from the University of Iowa’s Stanley Museum of Art amid, and in dialogue with, the spaces of Iowa – a US-American, settler-colonialContinue reading “The Midwest is Easy to See”