Projects
In Development
A recent series of discoveries in the South African National Archives provides for new strategies to map the growth and development of townships over the forty-six year apartheid era.
A database of video clips from early silent films to contemporary Anime, with annotations and metadata that can be shared with consortial institutions for scholarly and instructional activities.
The Beloved Witness project will create a digital archive of the video-taped and audio-taped readings, as well as personal documents, letters, and manuscripts of Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001).
Development of a virtual Confucius Temple that would allow the user to enter a temple to explore the sites and sounds of the Confucius Temple, its spirit niches, and ritual instruments.
This database is part of a collaborative project to map historic sites across South Africa’s townships, focusing on the history of Soweto’s built environment and the role of its historic resources in the liberation movement.
The project has the goal of documenting and preserving the cultural heritage of the Sinixt First Nation who despite their continued presence in the Pacific Northwest were pronounced extinct in 1956 by the Canadian Government.
A unique, three-dimensional archive interface that allows visitors to easily guide themselves through a 3D re-creation of Soweto, combining both education and exploration as they learn about the places, people, and past of Soweto.
"National reconciliation and peace building can be promoted through the effective use of innovative heritage projects for empowerment while providing redress for marginalized communities."
Fire!!! is a multidisciplinary journal that serves the social sciences, arts, and humanities, aiming to attract scholarship that incorporates audio-visual evidence to substantiate or challenge scholarly theories and interpretations.
Civil War materials from Oneida County, New York (in which Hamilton College is located). Most of these materials were written by soldiers of the 117th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, their family and friends.
The American Prison Writing Archive will be a place where incarcerated people can bear witness to the conditions in which they live, to what is working and what is not inside American prisons, and where they can contribute to public debate about the American prison crisis.
The Locution of Location is a mapping project: the central story of the course is the story of how a “scene” unfolds at a particular place during a particular time.
A documentary film about the river Euphrates which is born in eastern Turkey. The documentary will focus on water issues and related political, economic and cultural problems in the region.
Completed Projects
The goal of this archival project is to provide users with virtual access to the history of Soweto so that they may better understand a critical period in South Africa’s history.
The Institute for Global Africana Studies (IGAS) seeks to foster scholarship and teaching on race, gender and ethnicity in the U.S. and abroad.
NITLE grant-funded project exploring, researching, and helping support media scholarship across the liberal arts curriculum.