Projects @ The CDH
For over ten years, Southern Miss faculty, staff, and students have incorporated digital and computational methods in their research. Whether it’s for data compilation and analysis, or building digital repositories and exhibits, the CDH team assistants students and faculty with their projects. Explore the variety of projects created and/or directed by Southern Miss faculty.
Featured Projects
Mapping Freedom
Mapping Freedom aims to bring together individuals from diverse backgrounds—-especially those underrepresented in science, engineering, and digital humanities—with the goal of equipping them with the skills to make significant contributions to collaborative research, in addition to learning how to work effectively as an individual and part of this REU community.
The 103rd Infantry Division Digital Humanities Project
The 103rd Infantry Division Digital Humanities Project is a website and interactive digital archive that aims to preserve the past and explore and understand the men who served with the 103rd Infantry (Cactus) Division during their combat journey in Europe in the Second World War.
by USM’s Dale Center for the Study of War & Society
The Mississippi Community Cookbook Project
The Mississippi Community Cookbook Project is a collection of cookbooks from communities across the state of Mississippi housed in the McCain Library and Archives at USM. The cookbooks showcase local, family recipes and recipes clipped from newspapers and magazines.
by Professor Jennifer Brannock & Andrew Haley, Ph.D.
Emulation and Innovation in Septimania:
Technological and Social Mobility before France and Spain, 800-1000
This project uses 3D modeling to explore the political and cultural history of the region that is now southern France (medieval Septimania) and northern Spain (medieval Catalonia).
by Courtney Luckhardt, Ph.D.
All CDH Projects
The Gravestone Project
The Gravestone Project (TGP) is a Digital Humanities collective that brings together scholars, taphophiles, students, writers, teachers, and others interested in history, literature, and the arts, to think about the various ways that people memorialize the dead.
by Emily B. Stanback, Ph.D.
The Grave
The Grave pioneers digital “poly-glossing” of word forms with respect to linguistic transition, which both looks back toward Old English and looks forward toward Middle English, as a resource for teaching History of the English Language.
by Leah Parker, Ph.D.
Quest Log
Quest Log is a digital publication created by the student members of the USM Game Studies Group, and facilitated by Dr. Craig Carey. Quest Log publishes the work of USM students and alumni, including genres such as: critical writing, game reviews, creative pieces, memoirs, podcast episodes, gaming videos, and artwork.
by Craig Carey, Ph.D.
The Keats Letter Project
The Keats Letters Project is an exploration of the epistolary writing of Romantic poet John Keats. By publishing each letter on the 200th anniversary of its original composition alongside reflections on that letter by some of today’s most exciting scholars and poets, the Keats Letters Project offers a new Keats for the 21st-century.
by Emily B. Stanback, Ph.D.
Riot Acts
Riot Acts explores extralegal collective violence in the United States between 1783 and 1865. The project uses interactive web mapping, network analysis, machine learning, and more to allow users to visualize and analyze over 2,200 incidents of violence.
by Patrick Hoehne, Ph.D.
Product
Product is a student-run, online literary journal produced annually through the Center for Writers at the USM, facilitated by Adam Clay. Current submissions are open to Mississippi writers and artists.
by Adam Clay, Ph.D.
The Beauvoir Veteran Project
The Beauvoir Veteran Project offers a quantitative analysis of Mississippi’s Confederate home, which operated from 1903 until it closed its doors in 1957. The facility was a New South icon in the state, a success story that legislators celebrated as a symbol of Mississippi’s ability to establish and run a modern, efficient home to care for aging and impoverished Confederate veterans and their wives or widows. It was also a symbol of the Lost Cause due to the residents themselves, as well as the home’s previous owner, former Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
by Susannah J. Ural, Ph.D.
The Mississippi Digital Courthouse Project
The Mississippi Digital Courthouse Project (MDCP) digitizes collections from the state’s Circuit and Chancery Court records from the nineteenth- and twentieth- centuries to help southern Mississippi communities preserve their history.
by Susannah J. Ural, Ph.D.
The USM Center for Oral History & Cultural Heritage
The USM Center for Oral History & Cultural Heritage hosts several digital humanities projects, including the Mississippi Oral History Project and its related podcast, the Mississippi Moments Oral History Collection which highlights the Center’s collection through Mississippi voices and unique storytelling on all aspects of life and culture in the state.
by Kevin Greene, Ph.D.