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Reading Slavery, Writing Freedom
Betsy Bowen
Type of Project:
Faculty Original Project
Project Description:
“Reading Slavery, Writing Freedom” examines the literacy experiences of the last generation of Americans who were enslaved, using an interactive digital map. Between 1936 and 1938, the Federal Writers’ Project undertook a unique project: to interview the last generation of Americans who had been born in slavery. Interviewers in 17 states collected more than 2,300 first-hand accounts of life in and after slavery. “Reading Slavery, Writing Freedom” tells some of their stories.
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Digital Volga German
Brent A. Mai and Robert Hoyt
Type of Project:
Faculty Original Project
Project Description:
The goal of the project is to research and preserve the heritage, history, traditions, and accomplishments of the Volga Germans. The researcher seeks knowledge and understanding of the relevance of Volga Germans yesterday, today, and tomorrow by asking the following questions:
- What does the study of Volga German history teach us about yesterday?
- What difference does a Volga German heritage make today?
- What impact will knowledge and understanding of Volga German history make on tomorrow?
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INDIA: Skill Training for Employability Project
Gita Rajan
Type of Project:
Faculty Original Project
Project Description:
INDIA: Skill Training for Employability Project (IndiaStep) is designed to help bring women into the workforce after effective skill training, and to ensure that they remain in the workforce to engender sustainable development.
The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank have decisively documented that there is a strong correlation between women entering the workforce and an uptick in national GDP. It is also accepted wisdom that women, more than men in developing economies, are able to sustain this economic growth because they continually invest in the education of children and well-being of families (Grameen Bank report). It is in this larger dialogue framework of women in the arena of sustainable development that INDIA: Skill Training for Employability Project, an innovative implementation research plan, operates.
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Medieval Nubia
Giovanni Ruffini
Type of Project:
Faculty Original Project
Project Description:
This is a site dedicated to the collaborative publication of scholarly resources for the study of Medieval Nubia. It is a site that will grow as scholars from the international community use and contribute to it. A preliminary list of resources appears below. All articles on this site can be edited by multiple people at once, and their edits can automatically appear on the live website. If you are interested in editing or adding to one of the available articles, or if you would like to contribute a new scholarly resource of your own, feel free to contact us, and we can give you the necessary editorial access. We welcome any and all ideas for growing this site and making it useful to the greatest number of people.
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Tweeting (or Tweaking) Climate Change: A Research Blueprint
Tommy Xie
Type of Project:
Faculty Original Project
Project Description:
Study of Twitter during Climate Summit 2014 (NYC, Sep/2014) and COP21 (Paris, Nov-Dec/2015).
Reserach Questions:
Network structure
- Who are the voices (identity)?
- How are they interconnected (identity clusters)?
- How are they geographically mapped over time?
Narrative
- What are the major frames (topic salience) in the discourse?
- How are the frames paired (e.g. immigration & national security) to mold public perception
- How is the content sourced (news media/NGO/pundits...)
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