Archives: digital history

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Shawn Graham Wins Judge’s Choice Award at 2015 Heritage Jam

Dr. Shawn Graham's digital project "Listening to Watling Street," has won a Judge's Choice Award at the 2015 Heritage Jam, sponsored by the University of York, Department of Archeology. "Listening to Watling Street" is Dr. Graham's experiment into sonifying the digital representation of the past. The song reflects concentrated areas in the... More

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian’s Macroscope, by Prof Shawn Graham

With colleagues Ian Milligan (University of Waterloo) and Scott Weingart (Indiana University)  Carleton's digital historian Shawn Graham has written a pioneering book on big data and history. The book describes and demonstrates the ways data can be explored to construct cultural heritage knowledge, for research, and in teaching and learning. It... More

Thursday, October 1, 2015

Kathryn Greenan to Explore Environmental History of Campus as Fall 2015 Graham Digital History Undergraduate Research Fellow

Kathryn Greenan, a third year honours History student with an interest in Environmental History, has been selected to be the fourth Graham Digital History Undergraduate Research Fellow. The Fellowship allows a student to pursue their own digital history research with members of the department, with a $750 stipend to help them along. Kathryn, who... More

Monday, December 15, 2014

History, Social Work and Engineering Scholars Produce Virtual Exhibit on the Wheelchair

Researchers at Carleton have recently launched MobilityHistories.ca, a virtual exhibit on the history of the wheelchair. The exhibit is unique in that it brings together scholars from the fields of biomedical engineering, social work, and history. History doctoral candidate Dorothy-Jane Smith led the research efforts of a group supervised by Dr.... More

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Interested in Learning About the Digital Humanities?

Digital Humanities Program Information Session The Collaborative Master’s in Digital Humanities is hosting an information session for students who are interested in pursuing this specialization as part of a Master’s degree at Carleton. Date: Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 Time: 3 – 4 p.m. Location: 2017 Dunton Tower. What Will You Learn? We will... More

Monday, November 17, 2014

Public History graduate Arpita Bajpeyi produces new podcast with the History Watch Project

Public History graduate Arpita Bajpeyi has produced the first episode in a new series of podcasts, coordinated by Dr. Audra Diptee and affiliated with the History Watch Project. This episode features a discussion with Drs. Danielle Kinsey and Shawn Graham on the ways in which history is represented in video games, and the challenges... More

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Shawn Graham on the Value of Historical Gaming

Shawn Graham has just published two chapters in  Kevin Kee (ed) Pastplay: Teaching and Learning History with Technology (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014): ‘Rolling Your Own: On Modding Commercial Games for Educational Goals’ pp. 214-254 and, authored with Kevin Kee, ‘Teaching history in an age of pervasive computing: the... More

Monday, January 20, 2014

Hollis Peirce wins Digital History Research Fellowship

Professor of History, Shawn Graham is pleased to announce that the first George Garth Graham Undergraduate Digital History Research Fellow will be Mr. Hollis Peirce. In the summer of 2012, Hollis attended the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria. At DHSI he successfully completed a course called “Digitization... More

Load More →