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Mu’ammar Gaddafi: A Populist Approach

Jacob Beam

Type of Project:

Student Project

Project Description:

Mu’ammar Gaddafi: A Populist Approach seeks to invoke contrarian thought through a visual expression of Libyan leadership from 1969 through 2011. This AdobeSpark Biopic adjusts the conventional framing of Gaddafi’s leadership through a bildungsromane development furthering the idea of experience-focused leadership.
Apollon Undergraduate Journal

Humanities Institute

Type of Project:

Faculty Contribution; Student Project

Project Description:

Apollon strives to publish superior examples of undergraduate humanities research from a variety of disciplines as well as intellectual approaches.

Our goal is to engage students in every stage of the process, beginning with student-faculty collaboration in generating undergraduate scholarship and finishing with the release of a polished digital journal.
La Principessa Straniera / The Foreign Princess

Rebecca Ruyack

Type of Project:

Student Project

Project Description:

A dual-language multimedia presentation of an original Italian fable created for ITLN 2233: Creative Writing in Italian. Winner of the Humanities Institute's 2020 Digital Humanities Prize for Best Individual Submission.

Author's statement: "My creative work is informed by additional research I conducted on Italian folktales. This project was designed to make what I learned in class accessible to a wider, non-Italian speaking audience and it will be of interest to students interested in translation studies. When addressing the incorporation of multiple media, I wanted to go beyond text. My project utilized several modes, including linguistic (with my writing), visual (with the pictures I used), and aural (listening to an embedded YouTube video of me reading). I used the software Adobe Spark, which allowed me to incorporate images and audio throughout my writing. The correspondence of text and image was designed to facilitate the understanding of a non-native speaker reading through the fairy tale for the first time, by looking to the images for visual clues to help understand the text. I also wanted my project to be easily navigable and understandable for a public audience, therefore I chose to structure my project around a single web page that links to each section."
The Vincent J. Rosivach Register of Slaves in Fairfield, Connecticut

Vincent J. Rosivach, Giovanni Ruffini, Alec Lurie, and Olivia McEvoy

Type of Project:

Faculty Contribution; Student Project

Project Description:

The Vincent J. Rosivach Register of Slaves in Fairfield, Connecticut (1639-1820) is a comprehensive database of enslaved individuals in colonial and post-colonial Fairfield. This database is searchable, and will be able to track projection of slave families as well as movement across households and other important information related to the slave, their family, and their history. While there are some distinct contrasts between Northern and Southern slavery, one of the key similarities is the lack of proper record-keeping of these enslaved individuals’ identities. The database compiles information including birth, death, and distribution of slaves in colonial and post-colonial Fairfield into a single site to help formulate a once-broken narrative. In several cases, we were able to piece together entire families of slaves, identifying a lineage previously scattered across countless documents.

The Register uses primary source property documents, church records, newspaper advertisements, military records, and museum archives to compile a list of slaves and the households they were a part of.
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.
Eloquentia Perfecta: Fairfield Core Writing Anthology of Student Work

Fairfield University Core Writing Program

Type of Project:

Pedagogy; Student Project

Project Description:

This Anthology presents exemplary writing by first-year students in the Core Writing Program. As the first “born digital” volume, it introduces students to the elegance of digital publication. The Anthology demonstrates the Core Writing Program's dedication to the Jesuit tradition of eloquentia perfecta—the notion of active engagement with language in the service of public good and personal development.
Map-Based Creative Writing and Local Geography

Sonya Huber

Type of Project:

Pedagogy

Project Description:

Sonya Huber, MFA, first began using maps in her creative writing classroom in 2015, after she began to develop her creative project.

More information on maps in creative writing pedagogy can be found here: initial map assignment for her creative writing students focusing on rewriting campus, and her discussion of the pedagogy and how this was adopted at other campuses.

Sonya Huber teaches at Fairfield University and in the Fairfield University Low-Residency MFA Program.
Map of Early Modern London

Shannon E. Kelley

Type of Project:

Faculty Contribution; Pedagogy; Student Project

Project Description:

The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML), is an ongoing project by the University of Victoria to map the spatial imaginary of Shakespeare’s city. The project asks how London’s spaces and places were named, traversed, used, repurposed, and contested by various practitioners, writers, and civic officials. MoEML’s maps allow users to plot people, historical documents, literary works, and recent critical research onto topography and the built environment.

Shannon Kelley is a MoEML Pedagogical Partner of the project. Students enrolled in English 213 – Shakespeare I at Fairfield University in the Fall of 2014 also contributed to the project.
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?
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.
"Beauty and the Beast" Through the Ages: Exploring the Feminist and Narratological Implications of Attempts to Modernize the Classic Tale

Jessica Romeo and Nels C. Pearson

Type of Project:

Student Project

Project Description:

Beauty and the Beast from the 18th Century to the Present is an interactive eBook (created using Apple's iBook Author) by Jessica Romeo '17 as part of her EN 390 Literature Capstone, taught by Professor Nels Pearson, in the fall of 2017. The project offers both a critical overview and interactive timeline of the history of adaptations of Beauty and the Beast from the 18th Century to the present.

Note: For best experience, use iBook application on Mac or iOS devices to open the iBook file (.ibooks). Users without Apple devices can view the regular pdf version (without interactive elements).
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.
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...)