Digital Humanities Projects

The USC Mellon Digital Humanities Programs supports the training of Ph.D. students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty in the use of digital tools to advance knowledge of history, literature, art history, film, religion, and other humanities disciplines.  Scholars affiliated with the program learn advanced digital techniques, allowing them to transform their research, archive materials for open source access, and engage in cutting-edge forms of multi-media publishing. Below are some projects from current and past fellows and participants from our summer Boot Camp series. We are proud to feature work created at USC alongside new projects developed by our fellows with other organizations and institutions. 

The Revolution will be Videotaped


Peter Collopy, USC-Mellon Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow (2015-2017)
Current Position: University Archivist and Head of Archives and Special Collections, California Institute of Technology

“The Revolution Will Be Videotaped” is a network history of the experimental videographers who collaborated across the fields of art, psychiatry, and politics in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is also a history of the resources videographers drew on, both material and intellectual, including the technology of electromagnetic recording, the practice of mediated self-observation, the metaphysics of collective consciousness, and the discourse of ethereality.

"Video and the Origins of Electronic Photography"


Peter Collopy, USC-Mellon Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow (2015-2017)
Current Position: University Archivist and Head of Archives and Special Collections, California Institute of Technology


Here in Flint


Christopher J. McGeorge, USC-Mellon Digital Humanities Ph.D. Fellow (2015-2017)
Current Position: Director of Development, COlabs, and Project Manager, Wild Blue Studios 

This documentary short was a collaboration between COlabs, Nomad Clan, and Flint Public Art Project. The team coordinated with Flint’s Southwestern Academy to develop a week-long ‘Muralism 101’ course, which taught students the basics of mural painting techniques and visual story telling. They learned how to design public art that spoke about Flint’s history and unique characteristics while addressing community issues and hopes for the future.

Depression-Era Migration


Jeremy Mikecz, USC-Mellon Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow (2017–2019)
Current Position: Fellow in the Neukom Institute for Computational Science, Dartmouth College

In collaboration with Myron Gutmann and Angela Cunningham at the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado. 



Indigenous Geographies of the Colonial World


Jeremy Mikecz, USC-Mellon Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow (2017–2019)
Current Position: Fellow in the Neukom Institute for Computational Science, Dartmouth College

Mapping Conquests (and other Spatial Acts): A Spatial History of the Spanish Invasion of Indigenous Peru


Jeremy Mikecz, USC-Mellon Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow (2017–2019)
Current Position: Fellow in the Neukom Institute for Computational Science, Dartmouth College

Toponymia Americana: Indigenous and European Place Names across the Americas


Research Project by Jeremy Mikecz, USC-Mellon Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow (2017–2019)
Current Position: Fellow in the Neukom Institute for Computational Science, Dartmouth College

Digital Rhetoric Boot Camp Projects

International Journal for Digital Art History


Justin Underhill, USC-Mellon Digital Humanities Postodctoral Fellow (2014–2016)
Current Position: Editor, International Journal for Digital Art History and Director, Visualization Lab for Digital Art History, University of California, Berkeley

 

Digitized Book of Hours, Use of Netherlands, Groot Begijnhof van Leuven and/or Ghent, ca. 1445-1460


Sabina Zonno, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute Fellow (2018) 

This digitization project was produced in collaboration with the USC Digital Library.

Digitized Book of Hours, Use of Rome, Northern France and/or Bruges, c. 1460–1470


Sabina Zonno, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute Fellow (2018)

This digitization project was produced in collaboration with the USC Digital Library.

Banner Image: From Jeremy Mikecz, "Mapping Conquest: A Spatial History of the Spanish Invasion of Indigenous Peru (ca. 1528-1572)." 

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