• Taking A Walk Down Memory Lane: Exploring Immersive Digital Approaches in Local Communities

    Seed Grant Summer 2024 Report Ashley Cerku Background Downtown Main Street. A few images may come to mind, but that image is different for everyone because we all have various experiences and perceptions. Like any historical record, many small towns have a homogenized history—one that is recorded by those in positions of power and lacking […]

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  • Mapping Reproductive Justice Law

    Seed Grant Summer 2024 Report Taylor Elyse Mills and Gregory Rogel Background With the overturn of Roe v. Wade and current, continued reports of forced sterilization of immigrant women in recent years, our timely project aims to track and map the history of legal precedent that has enabled the forced sterilization of women (and those […]

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  • Networking Letters of Revolution

    Seed Grant Summer 2024 Report Gillian MacDonald and Morgan Fox Background Inspired by more recent developments in the field of network science and early modern studies, Networking is a nascent open access digital repository of code and data specifically related to relationships and networks of people in Scotland during the Revolution. The recent publication of […]

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  • A Community-Engaged Approach to Mesoamerican Plant Knowledge: The Co-Creation of a Botanical Database

    Seed Grant Summer 2024 Report Aubree Marshall Project Background Food plays a complex role in our daily lives. In addition to providing us with the nutrition we need to nourish our bodies, food access and choice reflect many different cultural practices and ideologies, which in turn can affect health for better or for worse (White, […]

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  • Unlocking Squareland Mysteries: The Development of Squareland Digital Field Trips

    Seed Grant Summer 2023 Report Kara Haas Project Description At the Kellogg Biological Station (KBS), MSU’s largest off-campus research and education complex, in-person field trips have been a mainstay of outreach efforts since the 1920s. Field trips are memorable learning experiences that connect students physically and emotionally with the local environment. Unfortunately, these in-person events […]

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  • Marsh Time: Humanistic Ways of Measuring and Experiencing Corey Marsh

    Seed Grant Summer 2023 Report Garth Sabo and Matt Rossi Background and Context Corey Marsh Ecological Research Center (CMERC) is a 400-acre parcel of land in Bath, Michigan, that is as noteworthy for its past as its future. The plot is the only remaining portion of the original MSU land grant that is non-contiguous with […]

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  • Mapping Michigan Menus

    Seed Grant Summer 2023 Report Dani Willcutt I requested the seed grant to support preliminary research for finding a methodology for using bar and restaurant menus as data. I knew that I needed to find menus that were specific to Michigan and to Lansing and that the seed grant would provide the resources to digitize […]

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  • Wireframe of the PageBlocks module. Design elements shown include a jumbo search (top left), video with text (middle left), map (not developed), 2 or 3 column (top right) and browse by topic (bottom left).

    AREPR and Omeka S: Developing Tools for the DH Community

    Seed Grant Summer 2022 Report Christina Boyles The Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico (AREPR), or the Emergency Response Archive of Puerto Rico, is a digital open access repository of Puerto Rican artifacts of disaster pertaining to Hurricanes Irma and María (2017), the Puerto Rican earthquake swarm (2019-2022), and COVID-19 (2020-present). These artifacts include […]

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  • Fig. 5 The relationship between locations and the nature of time

    Movements through Time and Space: Visualizing a Literary Journey by Ethnic Koreans in China

    Seed Grant Summer 2022 Report Catherine Ryu and Olivia Hale Project Description Our project’s main goal in the summer of 2022 was to pilot a viable digital humanities approach to visualizing the movements through time and space in the writings by ethnic Koreans in China (Map 1-a). This diasporic community is situated in the area […]

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    Materializing Multiple Futures: Printing Jatayu’s Wing

    Summer 2021 Seed Grant Funding Submitted by Jessica Stokes The project Wingin’ It: A Material Re-Storying the Ramayana is an attempt to make material and tangible parts of a speculative cinema piece and role-playing game crafted around the vulture Jatayu. An exalted character in the Ramayana epic tradition, the vulture Jatayu is known for his […]

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