History major and DH minor Maria Shimota mined historic newspapers to capture popular attitudes towards women workers in Oregon during and between the World Wars. Her spring 2023 capstone project, “Changing Attitudes Towards Women’s Labor: How Newspapers Reflect Popular Ideologies,” is published as a static website that Maria built using GitHub pages. The front page is a multimedia essay featuring visualizations of trends across roughly 100 newspaper articles that Maria ...

English major and DH minor Lauryn Cole built a public-facing version of her Honors College thesis using Twine, a tool for creating interactive narratives and text-based games. “Fat & Fabulous: The Power of Contemporary Romance as a Site of Anti-Oppression Work“ will be deposited in its entirety on UO Scholars’ Bank. But as Lauryn explains, the “choose your own adventure”-style navigation has the potential to reach different audiences and to experiment ...

Kamapuaʻa/kalo. Image by Kūpono Duncan, 2019 for the position paper. Anyone interested in the Digital Humanities will sooner or later come across AI. Perhaps you’ve already played around and asked an AI program to compose a Valentine’s poem for you, or a painting of John Oliver marrying a cabbage. But have you ever thought about how Indigenous methodologies can inform our practices with AI? UO’s Professor Ashley Cordes (Coquille; affiliated with Indigenous Studies; English; DH; ...

Professor Tara Fickle’s book The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities (NYU Press, 2019) Tara Fickle’s award-winning book, The Race Card, shows how video games contribute to discourses of race in the U.S. She complicates the usual arguments about games as spheres of empowerment and self-realization, revealing how gaming culture imposes a very specific and limiting role on Asian Americans within U.S. national culture. To make this argument, Fickle analyzes a variety ...

Image from the collection on the Polish-American System of Chronology in TimeOnLine UO History Professor Daniel Rosenberg Rosenberg is interested in time: how we perceive it, and the various means we use and have used to depict it. He also loves games, charts, graphs and ephemera from long-gone days. To share these passions with a wider audience, he teamed up with UO Libraries and created the digital archive TimeOnLine. With the support of a prestigious Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant ...

UO Digital Scholarship Librarian Kate Thornhill is part of a team of researchers and technologists who were awarded a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the (NEH) for their project Learn-Static. Learn-Static is a hub for Digital Humanities-focused static web teaching modules and project templates. The two primary aims are to Offer learning modules that cover fundamental introductory concepts in static web development, such Markdown, HTML, CSS, and working with GitHub ...

Map of Victorian London with points of interest from the Soundscape Map of The Lyon Archive. The Lyon Archive is a collaborative project between UO Professor Heidi Kaufman, her students, and members of the Anglo-Jewish Lyon family, which has members living in Jamaica, England, Australia and the U.S. As avid fiction writers, editors, diarists, scholars, philanthropists, and scholars, they have created and gathered a multitude of documents, which are now showcased in the Lyon Archive. These ...

The Female American; or, the Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield. Compiled by Herself. London, 1767. Reproduced courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library. This project originated in Professor Mattie Burkert’s UO graduate seminar “Science, Colonialism, and Empire.” In collaboration, the class first created a digital edition of the text – a process that involved transcriptions, corrections, markups and the addition of editorial comments. In a second step, a smaller group used the free ...

The front page of the London Stage Database This project is directed by UO’s Professor Mattie Burkert. The aim is to recover the damaged data and code from the 1970s London Stage Information Bank. The Information Bank gathered information about performances of plays, prologues and epilogues, afterpieces, pantomimes, instrumental music, singing, and dancing in London’s public theaters in the long eighteenth century. Unfortunately, the project became technologically obsolete within the ...

Click here to visit the interactive storymap In English 470, UO SOJC students Bobbie Adelson, Kiele Head, Catherine Oswalt, Sesilie Stout used ArcGIS Storymaps to create a curriculum tool for local schools to teach histories of racism, oppression, and freedom struggles in the Eugene-Springfield community. Built with careful attention to state & local curriculum requirements, the interactive map and multimedia elements invite students to explore local landmarks as a portal to histories ...