Visualizing the Local Impact of the NEH
August 18, 2018Project Team: Hannah Aizenman, Tahir Butt, Jojo Karlin, Patrick Smyth – all GC Digital Fellows. Description: In 2017, and in light of President Trump’s budget announcement, the GC Digital Fellows, and Deputy Director Lisa Rhody, examined data from the NEH to get a sense of where and how funds had been invested since the… Read more
Student Project: Excavating the Salve Experience
August 15, 2018Project Team: Monika R. Wright, Iris Finkel, and Tristan Goodwin. Team members were students in the Digital Praxis Seminar, Spring 2018. Project Description: The Excavating the Slave Experience (eSe) project is the visual interrogation of several networks of textual and visual historical slave records. For decades, historians and scholars have interrogated these fragmented… Read more
Student Projects: Supported by Provost Digital Innovation Grants (PDIGS)
August 11, 2018Provost Digital Innovation Grants (PDIGS) The Provost’s Digital Innovation Grants support digital projects designed, created, programmed, or administered by doctoral students at the CUNY Graduate Center. Since 2012, the grants have supported a range of inventive projects across the disciplines. Learn more about PDIG-funded projects below. Every spring, applications are accepted… Read more
Spatiality Apps
August 11, 2018Spatiality Apps Project Team: Steve Romalewski, director of the CUNY Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research Description: Spatiality Apps provides mobile applications that go beyond the basic tourist information about cities. He and his team “focus on delivering interesting, detailed, unexpected information often buried in government databases” with the aim… Read more
Children Framing Childhoods
August 10, 2018Project Team: Wendy Luttrell, Professor of Urban Education and Social-Personality Psychology Description: This project investigates the ways young people participate in social structures in her visual ethnography project Children Framing Childhoods. She asks them to take pictures of their family, school, and community life that “emphasize their participation in and insights… Read more
What They Saved
August 10, 2018Project Team: Distinguished Professor Nancy K. Miller (Comp Lit, English, French) Description: What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past reconstructs Professor Miller’s family’s missing past from artifacts passed down to her. Locks of hair, postcards, receipts, letters written in Yiddish are among the objects which inspire the quest to understand her relatives’… Read more
