Four graduate students in the 2016 Digital Scholarship Incubator program will showcase their research on September 29 at 3:30 p.m. in Love Library. The students worked for 12 weeks over the summer in the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities.
The students and their projects:
- Kami Ahrens (anthropology): Making the Frontier Home: Stories from the Steamboat Bertrand seeks to understand gender roles and identity during the mid-nineteenth century on the frontier through the analysis and digitization of artifacts from the Steamboat Bertrand.
- Jonathan Cheng (English): "Passive Voice (consider revising)": The Broad Literary History of Pithy Style aims to provide a computational analysis of passive voice and render its literary provenances.
- Christy Hyman (history): The Oak of Jerusalem: Flight, Refuge, and Reconnaissance in the Great Dismal Swamp highlights and analyzes the Great Dismal Swamp landscape with a view to uncovering enslaved canal laborers' intellectual networks, which developed as a result of the arduous labor they were forced to perform in antebellum northeastern North Carolina.
- Gabi Kirilloff (English): Imagined and Experienced Places: a Geographical Mapping of the Locations in Willa Cather’s Writing explores the relationships between Cather’s travels and her references to place in her correspondence and fiction by visually representing the differences between Cather’s actual travels and her reference to geographic places.
The program promotes student-led digital research and scholarship. Fellows receive a stipend; one-on-one and group consultations with UNL faculty and staff; co-working space, hardware, and software in the CDRH; and other professional development opportunities.
