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Student Projects (Prior to Fall 2020)
At Pitt-Greensburg, digital humanities students work in teams on projects, several of which have been repurposed and continued over two or more semesters. Since the launch of our Digital Studies Certificate program in 2015, we have offered a two-semester sequence of coding courses, Coding and Digital Archives and Coding and Data Visualization, each of which offers complementary experience in the XML family of languages and investigating digital humanities research questions with code. Our program gives students the option to take just one or both of these two courses in any order, and this sequencing gives returning students the opportunity if they wish to continue a project they helped to launch in a previous semester, usually with a new project team. Several of the projects here ceased development with the termination of a semester (especially those constructed prior to 2015), but others have continued active development.
Spring 2020
Coding and Data Visualization
Fall 2019
Coding and Digital Archives
Spring 2019
Coding and Data Visualization
- The Banksy Project: develops a database and map of Banksy’s graffiti tags, sculptures, exhibitions, paintings, and books. [GitHub]
Alyssa Argento, James Farley, and Abdual Nadeem
- Bloodborne Lore: analyzes motifs, objects, and settings of the game Bloodborne Lore. [GitHub]
Frank Koshinskie, Donald Denne, and Nathan Dietz
- Pokemon Map: plots and evaluates Pokemon types, availability, and scarcity in the Pokemon world. [GitHub]
Jacob Gonos and Alan Chen
- The Ulysses Project: investigates literary allusions, and references in James Joyce’s Ulysses and maps them to locations in 1904 Dublin. [GitHub]
Fiona Carter, Kiara De Vore, Brad Thomas
Fall 2018
Coding and Digital Archives
Spring 2018
Coding and Data Visualization
Spring 2018 Greensburg students present their projects together with students in our sibling course at the Pittsburgh campus in the Cathedral of Learning on Friday morning April 19 beginning at 9am, according to the posted presentation schedule.
- Akira: A Textual Analysis: a significant upgrade of the available digital resources on the 1988 Japanese animated movie, with analysis of its characters and power networks. [GitHub]
Nicholas Pcsolar and Mark Raschiatore
- Rick and Morty: investigates and organizes the intricate time traveling references in the Rick and Morty animated TV series. [GitHub]
Dorothea Lint and Allyson Hall
- Overholt Diary: an analysis of Karl Overholt’s diary about the West Overton Mennonite Community in Scottdale, PA. Thanks to the West Overton Village and Museum for access to the original diary, scanned and digitized by the newtfire team. [GitHub]
Alex Fell and Garrett Joiner
Digital Humanities Advanced Praxis Group
In addition to the Coding and Data Visualization class, a group of advanced students from Greensburg and Pittsburgh met virtually once per week in Spring 2018 to review and refresh their skills and to build new projects and update their ongoing work on newtfire. The new projects include:
- La Lega Toscana di Protezione: A social, spatial, and linguistic study: archives and investigates documents from 1919 to 1925 of the Lega Toscana di Protezione, a beneficial society of Italian immigrants living in the Pittsburgh area. The documents are provided by the Heinz History Center, the full team of researchers includes members of students and faculty in the French, Spanish, and Italian Department at the University of Pittsburgh, and the digital work of the project is led and managed by Zachary Enick, a Pitt student and collaborator with the Greensburg and Pittsburgh DH instructor teams from Fall 2017. [GitHub]
Zachary Enick
- A linguistic study of Gertrude Stein’s Miss Furr Miss Skeene, conducted for a senior thesis project in English Literature:
[GitHub]
Jonathan Horanic
Additionally, the Advanced Praxis Group supervised Melissa Klamer, a member of the Digital Mitford project team and PhD student at Michigan State University, in her learning of TEI and the XML family of languages to develop her digital edition of Elizabeth Gaskell’s journal for her PhD thesis. Ongoing projects continued by members of the Advanced Praxis group this semester include Hamilton led by Audrey Hunker and Briana Filer and the Lope de Vega Project led by Prof. Stacey Triplette.
Fall 2017
Coding and Digital Archives
This semester, the students in our sibling course at the Pittsburgh campus worked with newtFire course materials, developed projects on newtfire, and advised on each other's work. We list Pittsburgh projects together with Greensburg student projects.
Greensburg:
- The Harlem Renaissance Poetry Project: investigates punctuation and figurative language in a collection by Harlem Renaissance poets Arna Bontemps, Claude McKay, James Weldon Johnson, and Langston Hughes. [GitHub]
Kaylee Stinebiser, Elizabeth Laughlin, and Tylar Lyons
- War of Currents: investigates the contesting views and language used for alternating vs. direct currents in the early years of planning electrical power grids. [GitHub]
Allyson Hall, Aaron Newton, and Jamie Downey
Pittsburgh:
- Portuguese WhatsApp: investigating linguistic patterns in a Portuguese text-messaging app.[GitHub]
Brandon Rodgers, Patrick Brooks, Tyler Bokan, and Zachary Enick
- 90s Rap: a linguistic investigation of rap music of the 1990s. [GitHub]
Monica Felix and Wesley Ho
Spring 2017
Coding and Data Visualization
- The Hamilton Project: studies the lyrics of Hamilton: The Musical, using network analysis to survey who is sung about by which characters, and mapping the locations referenced. [GitHub]
Audrey Hunker and Briana Filer
- News Analysis Project: comparatively analyzes the usage of emotional language in reporting from four major news sources; FOX News, CNN, BBC, and NPR. [GitHub]
Samantha McGuigan, Aaron Newton, and Jonathan Horanic
Fall 2016
Coding and Digital Archives
- The Graveyard Project: digitally mapping and curating historic Brush Creek Cemetery, Irwin, PA [GitHub]
Jon Horanic, Lauren McGuigan, and Jared Kramer
- The Lope de Vega Project: analyzing language and contexts of plays and prose by Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio [GitHub]
Stacey Triplette, Madison Bredice, and Audrey Hunker
- Eldritch Project: analyzing exotic words in H. P. Lovecraft's writings [GitHub]
Matthew Burch, Patrick Herron, and Evan Tatarka
Spring 2016
Coding and Data Visualization
- Digital Humanities Project Showcase Schedule
- During the week of April 18-22, Pitt-Greensburg students presented their semester Digital Humanities projects together with students in Prof. David J. Birnbaum’s Computational Methods in the Humanities course. The event presented a conference opportunity for the Pittsburgh and Greensburg Digital Humanities students to share their work, respond to questions, and gain feedback from each other and from instructors in both courses as they completed their project work for the semester.
Fall 2015
Coding and Digital Archives
Fall 2014
Digital Humanities
Fall 2013
Digital Humanities
Students’ project work involved expanding the Digital Archives and Pacific Cultures site, launched in Spring 2013 by a student-faculty team from two University of Pittsburgh campuses.
