This page is a collection of some of the projects I have completed or contributed to during my time at Carleton College. Each entry includes a brief write-up detailing the project and my contributions, accompanied by a snapshot from its creation. It is arranged to begin with my first project, a digital history of Carleton’s literary societies, and continues roughly chronologically through my Carleton career. If you click on any title, it will take you to the project itself. I hope you enjoy!
Carleton’s Greek Life? – Uncovering the Literary Societies
This digital history of the historical literary societies of Carleton College, completed as the final project for DGAH110: Hacking the Humanities, was my first major digital history project completed at Carleton. I led the archival research and writing sections of the project and collaborated on the web design and 3D modelling portions as well. While certainly a beginner’s project, it was still one we were proud of, and marks the point where my passion for combining narrative history with digital technologies began.
“Mapping the World” Digital Exhibit
For the course HIST231: Mapping the World before Mercator, my class contributed to the ongoing project “Mapping the World.” With a partner, I created an exhibit entry for Justus Danckerts’ ca.1690 map “Dukedom of Prussia leaves Poland and joins Brandenberg” that fuses bibliographic information about the map with detailed description, contextualization, and analysis of its history and contents.
Carleton Guide to Medieval Rome – Franciscan Walking Tour
In the Spring of 2023, I travelled to Rome for a medieval history Off-Campus Study program. One of the courses on the program focused on the built, spatial history of the medieval city was has been both built over and ripped out to highlight both modernity and classical antiquity. One of our projects for this course involved working on the Carleton Guide to Medieval Rome, a collection of walking tours designed to highlight and teach all audiences about Rome’s medieval period. In particular, I followed, reviewed, and edited the Franciscan Walks portion of the development version of the site.
Global Engagement Digital Portfolio
I created this digital portfolio as the capstone project for both my European Studies minor and my Hyme Loss Global Engagement Award. It chronicles my intercultural engagement at Carleton, my five months abroad studying in Rome, Berlin, Frankfurt, and Dublin, and the Comps project whose research I undertook in Germany and Ireland. Additionally, it was the first narrative website that I designed and implemented start to finish, and I’m proud of the result!
These projects, which represent a small slice of my digital work at Carleton, engaged varied aspects of digital history and Digital Humanities work more broadly and have prepared me well to tackle digital history projects outside of academia as well! If you click on the button below, you can read about how I transferred this work to my internships at the Baltimore Museum of Industry and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs!