Random [mostly food] Thoughts

There is no need to seek far for goodness and happiness. It is found in the imposed peace, in the rhythm of communal and private labor, in wealth amassed and…

From: Drucker, Johanna. “Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 005, no. 1 (March 10, 2011). There is so much to think about when trying to convey abstract information…

This is a picture of our hallway. As you can see, we are a house of map lovers. When I was a kid I used to stare at maps and…

This week I dove into more computational text analysis. While I gained a better understanding of the methodology through the articles we read, when it came time to learn how…

Visualization of James Ralph Jewell's Agricultural Education Including Nature Study and School Gardens, written in 1907 for the US Dept, of the Interior's Bureau of Education. This document is part…

This week we were given free reign to explore all of the topics for the next five weeks which should lead to a Digital Humanities Advancements grant proposal draft and…

…to be a one at all, you must be a many and it’s not a metaphor.—Donna Haraway (2014). I am not going to act like I fully comprehend the work…

“One of the advantages of anthropology as a scholarly enterprise is that no one, including its practitioners, quite knows exactly what it is” Interpretation of Culture--Clifford Geertz After ruminating a…

High school girls learn the art of automobile mechanics. Left to right: Grace Hurd, Evelyn Harrison, and Corinna DiJiulian, with Grace Wagner (under car), at Central High, Wash. D.C. [1927,…

I am taking Digital Humanities in the second semester of the first year of my graduate work in the history department at Michigan State University. Creating an online presence is…