The unsatisfactory representation of women on Wikipedia has received much attention in recent years (such as here). Specifically, a dearth of coverage of women, as well as bias within the Wikipedia articles on women that do exist, have both been observed. This issue has been connected to the low percentage of female Wikipedia editors; according […]

Background Earlier this year, I became interested in work being done by the Equal Justice Initiative. Specifically, the organization had put out a report, Lynching in America, based on research they did to document lynchings between 1877 and 1950. In doing so, they collected data on more than 800 previously unreported lynchings. Using a data supplement and basic […]

I spent a particularly difficult week as a volunteer editor-at-large for DHNow. As I write this blog entry, I have gone through several stages of grief in light of Donald Trump’s election. Earlier this year, my family and I took citizenship oaths and were thrilled to be living some form of the American Dream. The […]

In one of my other classes this semester (Women, Gender and Fascism in 20th Century Europe), I am exploring the topic of how Weimar Berlin (1918-33) profoundly shaped urban homosexual aesthetics and identity. Urban life enabled social outsiders—such as female and male homosexuals—to not only create, but also define their own space, identity and narrative. […]

In the first years of the American Republic, James J. Roosevelt started a business that would eventually, under his son, became the largest importer of plate glass in the country. At first, it was just a store, and the merchandise was general in nature though certainly related to building construction and decoration. Two related items, […]

As I’ve been working through the many complications of finding, downloading, cleaning, uploading, and analyzing my data set, I took a moment to create the above word cloud using Wordle which itself was a little complicated as it requires a Java Plugin that is no longer supported on any of the computers I’ve been using today.  After […]

In my visualization project, my principal aim is to present the relationship between space and collective memory through visual testimonies of social movements in Turkey. In this framework, the goal is to set up a map, where one can browse all videos recorded in a city/neighborhood/street, and examine urban temporalities.

Aside from the juvenilia, many of On Kawara’s most famous works are documents of movement and time. For his I Got Up series, Kawara sent two postcards every day between May 10, 1968 and September 17, 1979. Each postcard is stamped with the words “I GOT UP AT” with the time that Kawara got up. […]