Project Name: BlabRyte Grantee: Anna Alexis Larsson Discipline: English Funding Cycle: 2017-2018 Project Status: White Paper: LARSSON_BLABRYTE_S18 White Paper   About the Project   BlabRyte is an online space where students can respond to writing prompts and get credit for low-stakes, exploratory writing while keeping it private. Blabryte structures a habit of writing frequently and...

Project Name: Holographic Reading Grantee: Andrew Dunn Discipline: English Funding Cycle: 2017-2018 Project Status: White Paper: Dunn – Holographic Reading – White Paper   About the Project   In the 2012 edition of Debates in the Digital Humanities, Johanna Drucker argues that computational tools and humanities scholarship are fundamentally incompatible; while the former function in...

Project Name: “Quantifying Kissinger”: Interactive Narratives Grantee: Micki Kaufman Discipline: History Funding Cycle: 2017-2018 Project Status: White Paper: QuantifyingKissinger_2017-2018_PDIG_WhitePaper_final_opt   About the Project     “Quantifying Kissinger” is a historical interpretation of the former U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor’s declassified correspondence, digitized, hosted, and curated at the National Security Archive in Washington,...

Project Name: Our Mobility Grantee: Jessica Murray Discipline: Human Development / Psychology Funding Cycle: 2017-2018 Project Status: White Paper: Murray White Paper 2018     About the Project     “Our Mobility” is a study of transportation and disadvantage: how disability, income, race, gender, and age can limit someone’s ability to transport themselves and participate...

Project Name: Emperor of Work: Chinese Restaurants, Worker Subjectivities, and the New Regime of Flexible Labor Grantee: Tommy Wu Discipline: Sociology Funding Cycle: 2017-2018 Project Status: White Paper:   About the Project   Using digital ethnography as the primary method of investigation, this research project focuses on the use of WeChat, an all-in-one mobile...