American Studies – The Incubator

August 24, 2022

Digital Place Making: Mapping Hartford Puerto Rican Public Art

Digital Place Making: Mapping Hartford Puerto Rican Public Art Course Description Beyond Traditional: Contemporary Understandings of Puerto Rican Culture (Spring 2022) An island uniquely characterized by a liminal political status and a dominant stateside diaspora, the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has been the subject of renewed national attention in the wake of the devastating 2017 Hurricane María and the...

American Studies/Anthropology

February 18, 2022

ARCANUM

Queer|Art is pleased to announce the 2019-2020 Queer|Art|Mentorship Annual Exhibition: “ARCANUM,” open from October 29, 2020 through January 7, 2021. The exhibition features new and ongoing work by the graduating Fellows of the organization’s celebrated Queer|Art|Mentorship (QAM) program and comprises interactive multimedia installations and events focused on revitalizing the intergenerational and interdisciplinary art of storytelling. Combining both virtual components and...

American Studies/Anthropology/Art/History/Human Rights/Music/Rhetoric and Writing/Sociology/Theater and Dance/Women, Gender, and Sexuality

April 13, 2021

YouTube as Anthropological Data: An Analysis of the Emma Chamberlain Channel

Assignment Prompt: The archaeological relative dating method of seriation is often taught with American colonial material examples such as that of New England cemeteries and gravestone design changes over time, as popularized by the historical archaeologist James Deetz (1930-2000) in his seminal work, In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life (1996). In this timeline demo assignment, students...

American Studies/Anthropology

May 6, 2020

The Evolution of Greek Life on Trinity College campus

This is a website dedicated to the history and evolution of Greek Life on Trinity College campus. I decided to create a digital platform that encompasses the history and major changes that have been made within Greek Life over the past 60 years. I offer an in-depth analysis by the decade of Greek Life that has been featured in both...

American Studies

May 5, 2020

The Evolution of Interior Design Magazine Covers

This project uses knightlab timelines on a squarespace website for the magazine covers of House & Garden and House Beautiful between the 1940s-2010s. I created this website for my AMST-306 Digital Humanities class in the fall of 2019, however I am still adding to and working on the website to improve it. The inspiration behind this website is my passion...

American Studies/Art/English & Literature/History/Rhetoric and Writing

April 30, 2020

Coeducation at Trinity: Evolution of the Female Field Hockey Bantam

My name is Caroline Munn and I am a member of the Class of 2021 at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. As an Urban and American Studies double major, I created a digital archive for my Fall 2019 American Studies 306 class, Imagining Digital Humanities. I researched the Evolution of the Female Field Hockey Bantam to understand the history of...

American Studies

April 3, 2019

Voces de la Migración: Archiving and Sharing the U.S. Latinx Experience in Hartford

When Américo Paredes said that castañas are where “our people put documents, things they have written, books they have read,” he did so with a sense of urgency. The reality is that much of Latinx history is not in archives or libraries. It is in old trunks, in the drawers of old desks, or in the recollections of people who...

American Studies/CHER/History/Human Rights/International Studies/Language & Culture Studies/Political Science/Public Policy and Law/Sociology/Unaffiliated/Urban Studies/Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Category: American Studies