Call for Participation DH @ WLU seeks applications for two Mellon Digital Humanities Undergraduate Fellows for the 2016-2017 academic year. We’re looking for students who are curious about the ways that technology affects the world around them. You don’t have to be a software engineer to build a website or…
Lasso-ing the Laisses: A Digital Journey Through Annotations, Javascript, and More!
Guest post by Sarah Schaffer ’16 Introduction Hi, my name is Sarah and I am a senior Business Administration major with a French minor. This past semester of independent study I worked with Professor McCormick on his current Huon d’Auvergne project. You may be wondering: “What is a business major…
Reflecting on the Fellowship
The culmination of my time under the Mellon Digital Humanities Undergraduate Fellowship semester has been my website titled Refugees of Germany. This process has… Given me space to design something from scratch (i.e. Ruby on Rails and Python). Not having studied computer science formally since high school, it has been incredibly…
Michelle Brock on “Choose Your Own Witch-trials”
Enjoy this post by Michelle Brock, Assistant Professor of History and DH Incentive Grant Awardee 2015-2016 The Idea: My course on the Age of the Witch-hunts is designed to introduce students to one of the most fascinating and disturbing events in the history of the Western world. Between 1450 and…