Narratives of War shares wartime testimonies of 1,500 Ukrainian civilians
McMaster library staff supported the digital exhibit that highlights first-person stories from Ukrainians impacted by the Russian invasion.
Tag: research
Research by SCDS Academic Director Andrea Zeffiro Highlighted by McMaster News
Professor Andrea Zeffiro’s innovative interdisciplinary work on data breaches and cyber-security was recently highlighted in a McMaster News article. Read the article by Sara Laux (reproduced below) and learn about how Dr. Zeffiro uses the humanities to see the digital …
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Developing A Photogrammetry Toolkit For Rapid, Low Cost And High Fidelity 3D Scans
Stephen Surlin's project 3D printing a molcajete and tomolote.
As a current PhD student in the Communications Cultural Studies and New Media Program at McMaster University, my research revolves around the application of new media to create personal archives for individuals or relatively small communities, groups and peoples, primarily …
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Putting Health Beliefs on Maps
As an extension to my dissertation, this project stems from a long-standing interest in global health outreach, gender studies, and public health policy. Successful public health policies rely on a deep understanding of the various health beliefs that underpin health …
Digital Medievalist
Dr. Matthew Evan Davis, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Sherman Centre, recently wrote a blog post for Digital Medievalist exploring the database as a methodological tool. Read it here.
Reflections on DH@Guelph 2017
“How do you find the time for a DH project on top of your Dissertation?” This is the question I get asked most frequently as a historian with a digital project. At this point in the discipline, DH does not replace …
Exploring Indigenous Data Sovereignty through Water Governance – Kelsey Leonard, Sherman Centre Fellow
Transboundary waters shared by Indigenous Nations, US and Canada.
Aquay (Hello), I am a PhD student in Comparative Public Policy in the Department of Political Science focusing on Indigenous water security and its climatic, territorial and governance underpinnings. I am an enrolled citizen of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, a …
DATA QUE/E/RIES
Please join us for DATA QUE/E/RIES, a public seminar focused on putting forward provocations for ways of thinking about ‘big data’. In particular, we turn to queer perspectives to help us address and unravel some of the assumptions, biases, and …
The Challenge of Cultural Theft- Crowdsourcing Knowledge for Digital Archives in Africa
Working on a Digital Humanities project as a historian of Africa requires a level of accountability to the people whom your work is about and affects. This responsibility requires an understanding of the history of cultural theft on the continent …
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A Font-based Approach for Testing Space for Textual Reconstructions in Dead Sea Scrolls Manuscripts
One of the challenges of working with reconstructions of Dead Sea scrolls is checking the work of other scholars. In 1963, Hartmut Stegemann reconstructed the manuscript 1QHodayota, a collection of hitherto unknown psalms found only at Qumran. His groundbreaking work …