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  • A Conversation with the Alabama Memory Project (1.3)

    During this conversation, Sara Whitver will talk to John Giggie and Isabella Garrison about their Alabama Memory Project. Alabama Memory is an Omeka S documentary archive of the lives of lynched individuals in the state of Alabama. Giggie and Garrison will talk about data collection and methodologies for organizing and presenting data with the goal of telling the lived stories of victims of lynching in Alabama.

    Season: 1

    Episode: 3

    Date: 03/24/2023

    Presenter: Dr. John Gggie and Isabella Garrison

    Topic: Alabama Memory Project

    Tags: Omeka S, History, Primary Sources, Lynching Victims, Mapping

  • A Conversation with Amanda Koh (1.2)

    Description

    In the second episode of ADHC Talks, Sara Whitver talks with Chemical Engineer Amanda Koh. Amanda runs the Koh Laboratory which “focuses on engineering soft materials and material interfaces to enable new stretchable electronics, soft robotics, smart devices, and porous materials.” One of Amanda’s current projects is to design a wearable device that helps singers measure their breath while singing, with the ultimate hope of making this device more widely available for breathing therapies. Amanda and Sara will talk about what it means to design and create wearable devices and what kinds of ways these wearable devices can change our perception of what it means to be human and understand our bodies relative to the world around us.

    Season: 1

    Episode: 3

    Date: 02/24/2023

    Presenter: Amanda Koh

    Topic: Soft Materials and Wearable Devices

    Tags: Wearable Devices, Chemical Engineering, Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Humanities and STEM

  • The History of Enslaved People at UA, 1828-1865

    The History of Enslaved People at UA, 1828-1865

    Description

    This project is the result of the work of the Task Force for Studying Race, Slavery, and Civil Rights at UA and documents their comprehensive assessment of University of Alabama Administration Records for the period up to 1865. This project seeks to ensure that all materials pertaining to slavery at the university is identify and transcribe the contents of the main record sets from this time including President Basil Manly’s diaries, President Landon Garland’s letterbooks, the Faculty Minutes, and the collection most commonly referred to as the “slave receipts.” Most important of all, however, was identifying as many of the enslaved individuals who labored on UA’s campus, or who were enslaved by faculty and college presidents, as possible and entering those names, and the records associated with them, in a database

    Project Owner(s): Department of History

    Topic: Enslaved People, History

    Tool: Omeka S

    Methodology: Documentary Research, Primary Sources

    Project Status: Live

    The History of Enslaved People at UA, 1828-1865
  • Journal of A Pandemic Year

    Journal of A Pandemic Year

    This digital museum accompanies Peacock and Peterson’s book, A Deeper Sickness: Journal of America in the Pandemic Year. Beacon Press, 2022. The DAILY ENTRIES cover 200 days of the year 2020. In the EXHIBITS section are housed essays from scholars around the country, creative works submitted by renowned artists, and meritorious undergraduate research projects—all of them dedicated to the study of 2020.

    Project Owner(s): Dr. Margaret Peacock, Dr. Erik Peterson

    Topic: COVID-19, History

    Tool: WordPress

    Methodology: Documentary Research, Primary Sources

    Project Status: Live

    Journal of A Pandemic Year

  • Notre Dame in Color

    Notre Dame in Color

    The Notre Dame in Color is an international collaborative research project that brings together scientists, artists, and art historians to enrich our understanding of the multi-chromatic environment of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris. Together, we are documenting, analyzing, and developing new digital visualizations of the polychromed sculptures of Notre Dame in order to preserve the cathedral for future generations. Content will be added as work progresses through 2026.


    Project Owner(s): Dr. Jennifer Feltman

    Topic: Art History, Medieval Sculpture

    Tool: WordPress, Sketchfab

    Methodology: 3D Modeling

    Project Status: Active

    Notre Dame in Color
  • Joe Minter’s African Village in America

    Joe Minter’s African Village in America

    Joe Minter is a Birmingham-based artist who creates site-specific sculptures on and around his property, many of which comprise his large installation, the African Village in America. The recorded flyover below provides a bird’s eye view of this site, created between 1989 and the present. Learn more about Minter and his work here by viewing a catalogued collection of his works, watching intimate conversations, taking the 3D tour, or reading about him and his work.

    Project Owner(s): Dr. Sara-MariaSorentino

    Tool: Omeka S

    Methodology: Oral History, 3D Tour

    Project Status: Live

    Joe Minter’s African Village in America

  • Dancing Digital Progress Blog

    Dancing Digital Progress Blog

    Dancing Digital Progress Blog

     

    Description

    Dancing Digital is a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to create and facilitate more accessible, equitable, sustainable, and interconnected dance resources online. Dancing Digital involves multiple levels of collaboration. Gesel Mason has joined this phase of the project as Co-Director. Gesel is both an Associate Professor of Dance at UT Austin and Director of Gesel Mason Performance Projects (GMPP). It is her curated collection, No Boundaries: Dancing the Visions of Contemporary Black Choreographers that serves as the material for our prototype digital archive. Other collaborators include the Alabama Digital Humanities Center (ADHC), the College of Fine Arts at UT Austin, and the Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin.
    Project Owner(s): Professor Rebecca Salzer

    Topic: Choreography, Dance & Theater

    Tool: WordPress

    Methodology: Linked Open Data, Video Documentary

    Project Status: Live

     

    Dancing Digital Progress Blog
  • Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Alabama​

    Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Alabama​

    Professors Julia Brock and Leslie Gordon and a team of students have partnered in this project with the Alabama Department of of Archives and History to transcribe and collocate the correspondence of Alabama governors from the civil war and reconstruction era.

    Project Owner(s): Dr. Julia Brock and Dr. Lesley Gordon

    Topic: Civil War, History, Reconstruction

    Tool: Omeka S, From the Page

    Methodology: Primary Sources, transcription, pedagogy

    Project Status: In Development

    Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Alabama​
  • Aphra Behn: The Podcast

    Aphra Behn: The Podcast

    Author, spy, political propagandist, Aphra Behn (1640–1689) was one of the first English women to earn a living by her pen. Set against the tumultuous backdrop of the English Civil Wars, expanding transatlantic slave trade, and settler colonialism in the Americas, Behn’s work engages with frankness and complexity a range of topics, from gender identity to political power. This podcast celebrates the 350th anniversary of the first public performance of a work by Behn, surveying major trends across translations of romances and scientific texts, timely plays, erotic poetry, and an anti-slavery novella. Researched, written, and produced by University of Alabama undergraduates during the coronavirus global pandemic in the spring of 2021, this limited series provides the public with a primer to one of the most influential writers in English you’ve never heard of.

    Project Owner(s): E. E. Tavares

    Tools: WordPress

    Methods: Podcasting, Literary Criticism

    Topics: Literature, Poetry, History

    Aphra Behn: The Podcast

  • Campus Historical Markers

    Campus Historical Markers

    Many people, places, and events which left an impression on the University of Alabama and surrounding community have been commemorated in historical markers and plaques around the campus. This is a collection of those public accounts of our history, in both image and text. Sections include Antebellum Campus, Confederate Commemoration, University Integration, Building Names, Fraternities & Sororities, and Other Historical.

    Project Owner(s): The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

    Tools: WordPress, Google Maps

    Methods: GIS, Archival Description

    Topics: University of Alabama, Historical Markers

    Campus Historical Markers