History – The Incubator

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

January 6, 2022

Monosexism and Its Impact on Bi+ Health

This exhibit is for the final project of my introductory class of the Global Health Humanities Gateway. I was inspired by the prejudices that myself and other multisexual people face as a result of our sexuality. I consider it a finished project, but I would like to include more historic voices of color in the exhibit to paint a fuller...

History/Human Rights/Rhetoric and Writing/Women, Gender, and Sexuality

August 24, 2021

Timeline JS Assignment with Rubric

This assignment was created for FYSM194: Stories we Tell: Histories of Medicine in the United States, 1800 to the present. It asks students to use excerpts from John Pintard’s diary to create a timeline on the cholera epidemic in New York City. The assignment includes a rubric that indicates how points will be distributed for content and design elements.

History

April 9, 2021

Personal Stories about Hip Hop or Home

In “INTS 344: Global Hip Hop Cultures” (Fall 2017), students were tasked with conducting oral histories and producing short films about Hip Hop pioneers in the city of Hartford. In familiarizing themselves with the Audacity audio application, students were required to share personal stories about their relationship to either Hip Hop or home. This assignment was meant to address technical...

History/International Studies

April 9, 2021

Hip Hop Beat Production Workshop

‘Out of Control’ is a Hip Hop beat produced by Kayla Armistead (Class of 2023). Kayla produced this beat as part of her final assignment for the course ‘FYSM 212: Introduction to Hip Hop” based on the technical training she received from DJ Stealth, a Hartford hip hop producer and DJ. “The Break” is a Hip Hop beat produced by...

History/International Studies/Music

June 29, 2020

Trinity College, Hartford, CT – Snapshots in Time: A Campus History

During the 2019-2020 academic year, Tess Meagher, class of 2020, and I worked on a story map showing the evolution of the Trinity College campus over time. The story map uses historic aerial photos from 1934 -1986, along with pop-ups about each of the campus buildings, to document growth and change of the campus from a birds-eye view. The story...

GET RIT/History

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

July 26, 2019

An Elementary Guide to Transcribing

Carlson Given and I had the opportunity to participate in summer research with the Trinity Public Humanities Collaborative. During this time we transcribed eighteenth-century manuscripts. We created a transcription guide for others learning to transcribe, explaining the process and strategies to incorporate while working.

CHER/English & Literature/History

April 25, 2019

Iron, Steel, Minerals, Brass, and Coal

My group used Google Tour Builder in order to trace the beneficiaries of the Slave Abolition Act 1833.

History

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: History