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 ...

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 ...

A screenshot from Rye Davies’ text-based adventure game, “These Fragments I Have Stored” (free to play on itch.io) For their major project in English 470/570, PhD student Rye Davies used Twine to craft an interactive science fiction narrative with two possible endings and many ways to reach them. As Rye explains, the game is a meditation on issues of digitization, identity, & power in archives explored by scholars like Dorothy Berry: The game was designed with ...

Click here to visit Dear Miss Tingle “The most exciting thing about DH to me is that it is interdisciplinary — any type of researcher from STEM, to social science to humanities can use DH tools and principles to explore their research in new ways.  My capstone DH project was a website I created based on my historical research on Lilian Tingle, a cooking correspondence columnist in the Sunday Oregonian in the early 20th Century. By recreating recipes from the column and ...

Click here to visit Dara Willmarth’s podcast, “Understudy-ied Theatre History” For her capstone project, DH minor Dara Willmarth (2021) researched, wrote, recorded, and edited the three-episode pilot season of this podcast and developed a companion website — complete with episode transcripts, links to scholarly sources, and bonus content. Episode 1: Regina Anderson Andrews — Playwright, librarian, and community builder of the Harlem Renaissance ...