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Digital Humanities for Undergraduates The digital humanities offer one avenue for exploring the future of liberal education by pursuing essential learning goals and high impact practices in a digital context. This panel of faculty, staff and students from the Tri-College Consortium (Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges), Furman University, Hamilton College, and Wheaton College will share how students have used digital methodologies to engage in authentic, applied research and prepare to be citizens in a networked world. Rebecca Frost Davis, Program Officer for the Humanities, NITLE Kathryn Tomasek, Associate Professor of History, Wheaton College Angel David Nieves, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Hamilton College Janet Simons, Associate Director of Instructional Technology, Hamilton College Christopher Blackwell, Professor of Classics, Furman University Laura McGrane, Associate Professor of English, Haverford College Jennifer Rajchel, Digital Humanities Intern, Library, Bryn Mawr College This session is presented by the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) session from AAC&U 2012 annual meeting
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Digital Humani,es for Undergraduates
AAC&U 2012
Introduc,on and Links Available Here
hAp://blogs.nitle.org/2012/01/26/digital-‐humani,es-‐for-‐
undergraduates-‐session-‐at-‐aacu12/
The Na,onal Ins,tute for Technology in Liberal Educa,on (NITLE) | www.nitle.org
NITLE helps liberal arts colleges integrate inquiry, pedagogy, and technology.
Future of Liberal Educa,on • Digital Humani,es • Libraries and Scholarly Communica,ons • New Learning Resources
Humani,es at Risk
“As history shows us, however, the arts and humani,es always risk falling from favor, seeming to some as ancillary or extrinsic, a frill to do without, to cut and drop when ,mes are hard.”
Arts & Humani-es: Toward a Flourishing State? AAC&U, Network for Academic Renewal Conference
November 3-‐5, 2011, Providence, Rhode Island
John Seely Brown, NITLE Fellow 2011
• Explosion of data • Exponen,al advances in computa,on storage and bandwidth
• Large-‐scale, deeply-‐connected problems
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
“a nexus of fields within which scholars use compu,ng technologies to inves,gate the kinds of ques,ons that are tradi,onal to the humani,es, or, as is more true of my own work, who ask tradi,onal kinds of humani,es-‐oriented ques,ons about compu,ng technologies.”
“Repor,ng from the Digital Humani,es 2010 Conference”, ProfHacker, July 13, 2010
Assoc. Professor of Media Studies, Pomona College
Director of Scholarly Communica,on, MLA
Why the Digital Humani,es?
Provide wide access to cultural informa,on
Enable us to manipulate that data: manage, mash up, mine, map, model
Transform scholarly communica1on
Enhance teaching and learning
Make a public impact
Slide courtesy of Lisa Spiro. Find out more: “Why the Digital Humani,es?”
DH and Liberal Educa,on
Alexander & Davis. “Should Liberal Arts Campuses Do Digital Humani1es? Process and Products in the Small College World.” In Debates in the Digital Humani-es, ed. MaAhew K. Gold. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Digital Humanists at Small Liberal Arts Colleges
• Angel David Nieves & Janet Simons, Hamilton College
• Christopher Blackwell, Furman University • Kathryn Tomasek, Wheaton College • Laura McGrane, Haverford College • Jen Rajchel, Bryn Mawr College
NITLE Digital Humani,es
• Techne: hAp://blogs.nitle.org • Digital Scholarship Seminars
– February 3 at 2 pm EST: Building Scholarly Networks: Digital Humani,es Commons
• DHCommons.org • Gedng Started in DH
– Lisa Spiro, Director, NITLE Labs
Angel David Nieves
Associate Professor & Chair of Africana Studies Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi), Co-Director/Co-PI
Janet Thomas Simons
Associate Director, Instructional Technology Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi), Co-Director/Co-PI
Curricular Connections to Digital Humanities Research: ���
DHi’s CLASS Program���(Culture, Liberal Arts & Society Scholars)
Multimedia Course Support
1. Extensive time investment by all involved 2. Find or create examples or models of expected
outcomes. 3. Collaborative Design - faculty with academic
support 4. Structure media assignments as a sequence of
learning experiences building upon each other over the course of the semester so that content can be assimilated simultaneously with critical literacy's skill development.
5. Multiple Checkpoints for Evaluation. 6. Public presentations of students final projects and
process. http://academics.hamilton.edu/mediascholarship/index.cfm?PATH=Recommendations.html
http://dhinitiative.org/projects/scaffold/
Curricular Initiatives & New Models
Independent Projects
• Independent projects as versions of Course Support
• Alexander Benkharthttp://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/from-ancient-to-animation-discovering-japanese-heroines
• Cinema and New Media Studies Minor http://www.hamilton.edu/academics/departments?dept=Cinema
• Research projects - Students and Faculty
• Alexander Benkhart http://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/alex-benkhart-11-awarded-fulbright-to-japan
• Erica Kowsz http://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/erica-kowsz-1-awarded-fulbright-to-canada
• Gabriela Arias http://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/gabriela-arias-11-interns-at-museo-del-barrio
Comparative Japanese Film Archive
http://www.dhinitiative.org/projects/japanesefilm/demo
Culture Language Arts and Society Scholars • Two week intensive training in digital approaches to humanities based research.
Angel David Nieves Associate Professor & Chair of Africana Studies Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi), Co-Director/Co-PI [email protected] Janet Thomas Simons Associate Director, Instructional Technology Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi), Co-Director/Co-PI [email protected] http://www.dhinitiative.org email: [email protected]
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Discovery & Insight""
""Christopher Blackwell "Furman University"
Engaging primary sources."
Compilation, Alignment, Analysis & Collaboration"
Freely seen & re-‐used"
Lists & More Lists"
&
[email protected] · folio.furman.edu"
Kathryn Tomasek, Wheaton College Wheaton College Digital History Project
Eliza Baylies Wheaton Travel Journal & Pocket Diaries Spring 2005 Summers 2005-2008
Encoding Financial Records Day Book
Daily accounting of transactions that reflect the many business activities of Laban Morey Wheaton between 1828 and 1859
Payments Rents
Land, equipment
Taxes
Postage
Labor
Purchases Food
Fabrics and sewing supplies
Lumber and building supplies
Technologies of Argument: Undergraduate Literary
Scholarship
Laura McGrane, Associate Professor Haverford College
Jen Rajchel, Digital Initiatives Intern Bryn Mawr College
Tri-College Digital Humanities Initiative
AAC&U 2012
Guiding Question
How do we create and evaluate new-media undergraduate projects that produce archival arguments?
… OR
Where’s the final paper?
Constructing the digital archive
Integrating Digital Collections into the Curriculum
" Fostering the undergraduate as scholar
• Encouraging new forms of close reading, knowledge production and interpretation
" Enabling original research that moves beyond a set syllabus and a specific classroom
Crucial components
" Multi-directional navigation
" Balance between user- and architect-driven modes of reading
" Multi-media forms
" Interdisciplinary synthesis
" Student work as process versus product
" Projects that open out into the public sphere
Digital Collections
" ECCO (Eighteenth-Century Collections Online)
" 17th-18th Century Burney Coll. Newspapers
" Early American Imprints
" American Periodicals Series
" ARTstor
" EEBO (Early English Books Online)
Examples from Student Archives
What follows are screen shots from one student’s digital archive. In the “real” thing, all links are live (and many are invisible here), and allow the reader to move through primary texts and arguments freely.
Gastronomic Revolutions (Greg Toy, 2010)
Prior to the ratification of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, many American colonists had been engaged in political discussions and disputes regarding the taxable status of essential food items. Indeed, due to the successive English parliamentary acts that imposed tariffs on molasses, sugar, and tea, the colonists had become conscious of the social implications and political connotations of food. Although the Declaration of Independence and the following Revolutionary War effectively ended England’s egregious political control over the American diet, remnants of English culture still permeated the culinary landscape of America; though the American colonies successfully achieved political independence, they still remained culturally attached to England. Consequently, situated within this revolutionary context, this archive endeavors to conceptualize the changing relationship between England and America by examining the changing culinary landscape as depicted in popular domestic guides and cookbooks; through the juxtaposition and purposeful ordering of British and American documents, this archive traces a second revolution. (Gregory Toy, Fall 2010)
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3
4
1. Beef
2. Turkey 3. Salmon 4. American
Specialties
“Most of the American fruits are extremely odoriferous, and therefore are very disgusting at first to us Europeans: on the contrary, our fruits appear insipid to them, for want of odour.”
Samuel Pegge in The Forme Of Cury (1780)
Main Menu
Choosing Beef
Glasse, Hannah. The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy. Alexandria: Cottom & Stewart, 1805. (Originally published in 1747 in London. Later reprinted in America)
Simmons, Amelia. American Cookery. Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1796.
The English Way
The American Way
How would you characterize each excerpt?
Main Menu
American Specialties
Simmons, Amelia. American Cookery. Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1796.
Glasse, Hannah. The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy. Alexandria: Cottom & Stewart, 1805. (Originally published in 1747 in London. Later reprinted in America)
What makes these recipes uniquely American?
Main Menu
Evaluation
" Close reading of rhetoric/terminology & creation of an argument
• Analysis of archives as constructed around categories/metadata
• Ability to integrate course materials into an original research project
Outcomes
" Projects that move beyond the boundaries of the classroom and individual institutions
" Projects that encourage the reader and user to roam freely, but within the constraints of an argument
" Recognition that design choices have theoretical and cognitive impacts
The Undergraduate Thesis
Preparation for involvement in senior thesis work, and larger projects that function trans-institutionally.
Jen Rajchel (BMC ‘11)
Mooring Gaps: Marianne Moore’s Bryn Mawr Poetry is a Bryn Mawr College senior English thesis in the form of a website. This essay explores three of Marianne Moore’s Bryn Mawr poems. It combines close textual analysis of the poems with an interrogation of the possibilities of a website as a critical form. My interpretation of Marianne Moore’s work features three different analytic structures (one for each poem) to suggest that new media allow for multi-presentational critiques as well as multi-vocality.
Dramatizing poetic argument
Collaborating in new ways
Involving Undergraduates in Institutional Conversations
Tri-college Digital Humanities: http://www.brynmawr.edu/tdh/
Re:Humanities http://news.haverford.edu/blogs/rehumanities/
Gabrielle Arias on Soweto ‘76
2011 Re:Hum Alums " Alexander Benkhart (Hamilton) Fulbright Scholar, Film
Digitization in Japan
" Michael Suen (Middlebury) Outreach Coordinator, Learning Games Network
" Evan Donahue (Brown) Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, Riverbed Technology
" Evan McGonagill (Bryn Mawr) Systems Associate, Open Society Institute
" Ethan Joseph (Haverford), Operations Assistant, National Symphony Orchestra
Challenges: How to Enhance …
" Direct ties between undergraduate humanistic inquiry and private/public technologies
" Opportunities for undergraduate institutions to partner with each other and R1 universities
" Opportunities for undergraduates to produce original research and writing as active scholars and citizens beyond individual classrooms
Further Conversation
For questions, comments and collaborative possibilities:
Laura McGrane: [email protected]
Jen Rajchel: [email protected]