Teaching and Coursework
Diagrammatica
Diagrammatica was developed in collaboration with the Fall 2023 Diagrams and Visual Thinking course. It functions as both an archive and exhibit. The site is built upon the Omeka S content management platform, and student contributions included historical and archival research, aesthetic analysis, web design, data architecture, and coding.
STIA3196 Spring 2024
This WordPress site functions as a course blog, where each post is from a different author. All work published on this site are original pieces written by students at Georgetown University in STIA3196: Environmental Writing for the Public (a Calderwood Seminar) taught by Cynthia Wei during the Spring 2024 semester.
Doing Environmental Humanities in Doha
Doing EH in Doha is a project of Georgetown University in Qatar’s ENGL 266 class, Introduction to Environmental Humanities. Its aim is to establish new directions for environmental humanities research in Qatar. It is in the style of a text-based WordPress blog.
Italian Language Portfolio
Professor Hipwell collaborated with CNDLS to develop a portfolio template for Italian students to document their language learning throughout their time learning the language while at GU and beyond.
Research
Georgetown Slavery Archive
The Georgetown Slavery Archive is a repository of materials relating to the Maryland Jesuits, Georgetown University, and slavery. This project was initiated in February 2016 by the Archives Subgroup of the Georgetown University Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation and is part of Georgetown University’s Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation initiative.
The Collection of Biothreat Risk Assessments (COBRA)
The Collection of Biothreat Risk Assessments (COBRA) was created by Georgetown University researchers studying the history and development of U.S. high-consequence biological agent regulations. In our work, we noticed that while many of these risk assessments existed, finding them was a difficult task. COBRA is the result of years of archival work spent collecting, organizing, and analyzing risk assessment documents.
Feminist Remembrance and Activism in Mexico
This archive takes as its main source the “Mapa de feminicidios en México” created by María Salguero. Using that database, we collect images and testimonies from feminist activists who carry the victims’s names in protests, marches, or spaces of communal grieving as a way of remembering and honoring those women.
Digital Dunhuang
Michelle C. Wang, driven by her extensive work on the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, applied for support from the DRI program to digitize a print index tracking activity at the heritage site. Using tools like Tableau, Domains, and WordPress, the project includes a fully functional visualization of the cave site accessible in English, simplified Chinese, and traditional Chinese characters.
Christian Communities of the Middle East
Create a digital archive and oral history of Christian Syriac communities now being displaced from their homelands to benefit the communities in danger of losing language, communal memory, human record, and common human heritage. The CCME Project Online Archive includes a repository of oral histories, photographs, and digitized personal histories or histories of communities.
Teaching and Coursework
Gen Yin’s Research Group
This WordPress site is a landing page for introducing Gen Yin’s physics research group. It introduces the members of the team, as well as provides information for prospective students who may want to work in the lab.
Descendants Documentary Project
Since Last We Met is a multi-year, multi-film documentary project developed by Bernie Cook in collaboration with members of the GU272+ community, the living descendants whose ancestors were owned by the Jesuits of Maryland. This wordpress blog gives an overview of each documentary in the project and provides a contact point to get in touch with the team.
Data-Centric Computing
This is a landing page for the Data-Centric Computing research page. It is a simple, text and link based page that is an example of using the Grav app.
