{"id":17282,"date":"2017-11-02T21:44:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T01:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?page_id=17282"},"modified":"2024-08-30T13:53:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T17:53:30","slug":"elise-bigley","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/student-stories\/elise-bigley\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Story &#8211; Elise Bigley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Student Story &#8211; Elise Bigley\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n    <div class=\"grid gap-6 mx-auto my-6 cu-column md:gap-10 md:grid-cols-2 md:my-10 first:mt-0\">\n        \n<div class=\"cu-column-content\">\n    \n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/elise-bigley-history-grad-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17283\" style=\"box-shadow:none\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/elise-bigley-history-grad-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/elise-bigley-history-grad-160x240.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/elise-bigley-history-grad-240x360.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/elise-bigley-history-grad-360x540.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/elise-bigley-history-grad.jpg 629w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"cu-column-content\">\n    \n<p><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"specializing-in-digital-humanities-and-volunteering-opened-doors-for-history-grad\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Specializing in digital humanities and volunteering opened doors for history grad<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By Susan Hickman<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With only a few months to graduation, Elise Bigley landed a plum job as director of cultural affairs at the Embassy of Israel this summer.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 26-year-old, who graduates with a master\u2019s of arts in history from Carleton in November, credits her many hours as a volunteer holocaust educator at the Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship (CHES) and her final year internship there for launching her career.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While she admits her specialization in digital humanities drastically changed her approach to research, Bigley also tributes her history professors, who \u201cwere very insightful and encouraging\u201d throughout her studies. \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The department has good relationships with other departments at Carleton, so if my thesis ever found its way into a different stream of study, my supervisors were quick to suggest a professor in another department who was an expert in that field.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her concentrated digital humanities courses \u201calso opened many new doors for potential careers with my history degree that I would not have considered prior to this degree,\u201d she says, adding that her internship in the Developing Future Leaders program, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a program run by the Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies that funds internship placements in&nbsp;the Jewish community, was one of her favourite experiences at Carleton.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bigley advises new history students to \u201cbe proud and confident\u201d going into the program and suggests volunteering or becoming involved in something they are passionate about.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I wanted to make my degree practical in terms of finding careers, and I was passionate about holocaust education, so alongside my degree I dedicated a lot of time to this cause.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Specializing in digital humanities and volunteering opened doors for history grad By Susan Hickman With only a few months to graduation, Elise Bigley landed a plum job as director of cultural affairs at the Embassy of Israel this summer. 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