Past Projects
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- Picturing Mexican America
- This project aims to illuminate the Mexican history of Los Angeles, and to make clear the consistent, enduring presence...
- Principal Investigator(s): Marissa López, English & Chicana/o Studies
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- How We Narrate the Self: A Large-Scale Analysis of Autobiographical Texts
- This project examines autobiographical texts written in English from 1700 to 1900 to analyze how we tend to narrate...
- Principal Investigator(s): Whitney Arnold, Comparative Literature
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- Cinema’s Peculiar Institution
- Cinema’s Peculiar Institution is a history of the representation of slavery in film from the dawn of cinema to...
- Principal Investigator(s): Ellen C. Scott, School ofTheater, Film and Television.
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- Amplify Digital Archive Project
- An international participatory action research endeavor to create a community-based participatory digital archive about forced migration
- Principal Investigator(s): Kathy Carbone, Information Studies
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- How We Make It: Disability Justice in the Wake of Covid’s Long Haul
- Multi-media audio, visual, and textual composition on the SCALAR platform about the effects of Long Covid
- Principal Investigator(s): Rachel Lee, English & Gender Studies
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- Faces Revealed Coffin Database
- The examination Egyptian yellow coffins’ lids through a new and in-progress methodology approach based on the analysis of facial...
- Principal Investigator(s): Stefania Mainieri, NELC & Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
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- COMFORTLESS AR/VR Project
- Shot on location, COMFORTLESS is an immersive experience of “American Town,” a brothel established exclusively for the U.S. Air...
- Principal Investigator(s): Gina Kim, TFT
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- Incan Working Group
- The goal of the Inca Mapping Project is to create a map that utilizes a topographic (3D/Google Earth) base...
- Principal Investigator(s): Stella Nair, Art History
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- Mapping Transborder Complexity
- Digital mapping research project between UCLA and ECOSUR-Conacyt that looks at the migration patterns and territorial reconfigurations of Mexico’s...
- Principal Investigator(s): Maite Zubiaurre, ELTS & Spanish and Portuguese
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- Testing Digital Historical Research Methods to Advance DH Book Project
- This capstone presents the opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to be a part of the creation of a...
- Principal Investigator(s): Ashley Sanders, Digital Humanities
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- Platform for Community Engaged Archive Class
- Creation of a class on community archiving and the history of the Zapotec diaspora.
- Principal Investigator(s): Maylei Blackwell, Chicana and Chicano Studies, Gender Studies
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- Thermal Inequalities
- this project will examine qualitative differences in thermal experience by attending to how heat is constructed and construed, by...
- Principal Investigator(s): Bharat Jayram Venkat, Institute for Society & Genetics, Department of History
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- CaliDHRI
- The establishment of a local version of DHRI- CaliHRI
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Zoe Borovsky and other UC/California school collaborators
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- Historical Photography Analysis
- The primary aim of this project is to develop an open-source reverse image retrieval system that will search historical...
- Principal Investigator(s): Lin Du, Asian Languages and Cultures
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- In Search of L.A.
- In Search of LA is a digital hub for making histories and telling stories about Los Angeles neighborhoods, past...
- Principal Investigator(s): Tawny Paul,UCLA Public History Initiative Director and Doug Barrera, Associate Director at the UCLA Center...
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- Afro-Asian Archives: Preserving and Digitizing Gujarati Sources for Indian Ocean African History.
- The Afro-Asian Archives Project aims to catalog, preserve, and digitize this collection; and secondly, to promote knowledge about and...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Hollian Wint, History
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- Visualizing Recorded Jewish Music
- With data from over 130,000 recorded tracks and over 20,000 albums, the DRJM provides an unprecedented research tool as...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Mark Kligman, Dr. Jeff Janeczko; Danielle Stein
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- Old Herbs
- Old Herbs provides basic information about the plants and herbs used in historical Mediterranean medicine, including its scientific name,...
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Alain Touwaide and Dr. Emanuela Appetiti
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- K-12 Outreach Upgrade
- UCLA offers a variety of programs and resources for K-12 students, parents and educators. K-12 Outreach provides the basic...
- Principal Investigator(s): Lauren Na
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- Inclusive Gatherings
- Inclusive Gatherings is an EPIC-funded project to educate UCLA faculty about how and why to maintain an inclusive classroom...
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Carla Suhr, Spanish and Portuguese; Prof. Jimena Rodriguez, Spanish and Portuguese; and Prof. Kip...
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- (QB)² – Question Bank Quick Builder
- (QB)2, or the “Question Bank Quick Builder,” is a Google Sheet Add-on developed at UCLA’s Humanities Technology to reduce...
- Principal Investigator(s): Thomas Garbelotti, Director of Humanities Technology
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- Playing with Shakespeare
- Playing with Shakespeare is a project to increase public engagement with the works of Shakespeare by making it easy...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Rob Watson, English; Prof. Mel Shapiro, Theater
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- R Lab for Historical Linguistics
- Prof. David Goldstein is collaborating with HumTech to design and create a lab component for his Spring 2018 Linguistics...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. David Goldstein, Linguistics
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- African Languages Website Migration
- The African Languages Website Migration project is preserving the Chadic languages (Yobe, Miya, Musey, Hausa) digital resources created by...
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Olga Ivanova, Linguistics
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- Archive of Ritual, Healing, and Transformation
- David Shorter is exploring how to publish cultural heritage material in a way that is respectful and empowering of...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. David Shorter, World Arts and Cultures
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- Evidence Locker
- Evidence Locker is a web application under development at CDH to help students learn critical reading and writing skills.
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Dave Shepard, CDH; Dr. Chris Mott, English
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- Undergraduate Writing Center Appointment Scheduling System
- The UWC Appointment Scheduling System lets UCLA undergrads easily get hands-on help improving their writing on actual assignments.
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Christine Holten, Writing Program
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- A Digital Version of Prokosch’s Comparative Germanic Grammar
- Nick de Carlo is building a digital version of Prokosch's "A Comparative German Grammar."
- Principal Investigator(s): Nick de Carlo, Germanic
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- Yoruba Architectural Reconstruction
- Prof. Steven Nelson is experimenting with the 3D modeling of Yoruba house posts in their original environment, in order...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Steven Nelson, Art History (formerly)
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- Mapping Indigenous L.A.
- Mapping Indigenous L.A. developed a website where members of the native communities in the greater LA area can tell...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Maylei Blackwell, Chicano/a Studies; Prof. Mishuana Goeman, Gender Studies and Native American Studies; and...
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- Tweet Reader
- This project uses data mining to explore how Twitter is used during major disasters.
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Dave Shepard
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- Virtual Cartographies: Mapping Historical Memory from the Spanish Civil War and Postwar Period
- exploring how digital mapping can help her understand and communicate how contemporary representations of mass graves in Spain affect...
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Wendy Kurtz, Digital Humanities
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- Genocide, Testimony, and the Digital Archive
- Database queries and network visualization to explore testimonies of genocide, as well as the ethics and challenges of preserving...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Todd Presner, ELTS
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- Big Data and Big Novels: Text Mining the Prose of the Russian Revolution
- Dr. Sean Griffin is exploring how topic modeling can help his students better understand the literature of the Russian...
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Sean Griffin, Slavic
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- Hebrew e-Workbook Public Pilot
- Dr. Nancy Ezer's Hebrew e-Workbook pilot will evaluate the possibility of allowing other Hebrew programs to share the learning...
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Nancy Ezer, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
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- LA in the Sixties
- LA in the Sixties uses digital maps to explore and teach about racial contestation and musical development in 1960s-era...
- Principal Investigator(s): Rosaleen Rhee, Musicology
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- Engaging Punk
- Engaging Punk seeks to create a more effective listening guide for Music History classes on the punk music genre,...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Jessica Schwartz, Musicology
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- Diversifying the Classics
- Diversifying the Classics is creating new digital editions of classic Spanish comedias to help bring this rich theatrical tradition...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Barbara Fuchs, Spanish & Portuguese/English/Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies
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- Burton Holmes Digital Archive
- The Burton Holmes Collection has been archived and may be available through the UCLA art history department.
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Steven Nelson, Art History
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- Immersive Humanities Viewer
- An experimental web viewer for three-dimensional models of historical objects that allows users to tag them with rich cultural...
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Dave Shepard, CDH; Prof. Willeke Wendrich, NELC
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- Mickey Katz Digital Library
- The Mickey Katz Digital Library uses digital artifacts from the life of the ground-breaking musician to illustrate both his...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Mark Kligman, Musicology/Ethnomusicology
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- Metadata for African Art
- "Metadata for African Art" explored the combination of Artstor's Shared Shelf and Omeka to better introduce students to the...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Steven Nelson, Art History
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- Sicalipsis
- Sicalipsis is a virtual museum or Wunderkammer that houses erotica and popular culture of early 20th c. Spain. Sicalipsis.humnet.ucla.edu...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Maite Zubiaurre, Spanish and Portuguese
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- Augustan Rome
- Reconstructions of Augustan era Rome
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Diane Favro, Architecture
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- WorldLiterature@UCLA
- WorldLiterature@UCLA originates in the desire to document translational networks of literature in the intersection of conventional humanistic methods and...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. David Kim, Germanic
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- World’s Columbian Exposition
- The World’s ColumbianExposition of 1893 is a perfect test case for the educational applications of interactive computer models. The...
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Lisa M. Snyder, IDRE
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- VSIM
- VSiM facilitates the real-time exploration of highly detailed, three-dimensional computer models in both formal and informal educational settings.
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Scott Friedman, Dr. Lisa M. Snyder, Dr. Elaine Sullivan, Eduardo Poyart, Franklin Fang, and...
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- Event Pulse
- “Event Pulse” brings together social media data and broadcast news data in order to discover, track, visualize, and analyze...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Todd Presner, Digital Humanities; Prof. Francis Steen, Communication Studies; Dr. David Shepard, CDH; Yoh...
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- Seeing Sunset
- Create an online textbook a class. It is led by Prof. Jan Reiff and has been supported by the...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Jan Reiff, History
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- RomeLab
- RomeLab is a multi-disciplinary research group whose work uses the physical and virtual city of Rome to study the...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Christopher Johanson, Classics
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- Andean Narratives
- A web based project that offers more insight into the collection of Andean ceramics at the Fowler Museum at...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Miriam Posner, Digital Humanities and Information Studies
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- LA Aqueduct Digital Platform
- In partnership with Lauren Bon and Metabolic Studio, UCLA Library Special Collections developed the Los Angeles Aqueduct Digital Platform,...
- Principal Investigator(s): Jillian Cuellar, UCLA Library
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- Digital Karnak
- The Digital Karnak Project aims to make the site of Karnak more accessible to students and instructors in the...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Diane Favro, Architecture
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- Far From Moscow
- A database of new music, poetry, and regional songwriting from more than 3,000 independent artists in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus,...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. David Macfadyen, Musicology
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- Reverse Engineering History: Structural Analysis of the Lighthouse at Alexandria
- Digital Reconstruction of the Pharos Lighthouse
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof Diane Favro, Architecture; Anthony Caldwell, Library
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- Mapping Danish Population Change and the Railroads, 1860-1920
- This project aims to bring together sources describing changes in infrastructure, population, and farming methods from the mid 19th...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Tim Tangherlini, Scandinavian
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- Urkesh: The Digital Invention of an Ancient Site
- Update his original archaeological database using current standards, while still maintaining its integrity as an argument about the nature...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Emer. Giorgio Buccellati, Cotsen Institute of Archeology
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- Multimodal Communication
- The exploration of solutions to enable media-rich writing projects for a Fall English 3 class.
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Leigh Harris, Writing Programs
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- Mapping Literary L.A.
- The goal of this project is to contribute to the design and mock-up of a Mapping Literary Los Angeles...
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Colleen Jaurretche, Writing Programs; Dr. Kelly Miller, UCLA Library; Doug Worsham, UCLA Library
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- Korean/Korean American Online Folklore Archive
- A reimagining of the search and display interface of the Korean/Korean American Online Folklore Archive
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Tim Tangherlini, Scandinavian
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- Keys to Voice Studies
- A project, led by Professor Nina Eidsheim from UCLA's Department of Musicology, to build a website for the Keys...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Nina Eidsheim, Musicology
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- East Asian Studies Macroscope
- A Mellon-funded initiative to create an integrated set of computational tools for the analysis of digitized East Asian Studies...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Jack Chen, Asian Languages and Cultures; Tim Tangherlini, Scandinavian
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- Digital Mapping and Visualization of UCLA Service Learning
- This project aims to help UCLA's Center for Community Learning develop a geospatial display of their students' service learning...
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Elizabeth Goodhue, UCLA Center for Community Learning
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- A Statistical Analysis of Canaanite Akkadian Texts
- The goal of this project is to provide hard data to clarify a debate on the linguistic characteristics of...
- Principal Investigator(s): Alice Mandell, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
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- UCLA Encylopedia of Egyptology
- The UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology is an international cooperative project to provide high-quality, peer-reviewed information on ancient Egypt. It...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Willeke Wendrich, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
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- Online Encyclopedia of African Music
- Develop a website that presents the work of musicologist Darius L. Thieme, whose pioneering fieldwork during the 1960s represents...
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Jesse Ruskin, Ethnomusicology
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- Visual Resources Collection for Teaching and Learning
- A HumTech collaboration with Prof. Steven Nelson to pilot Artstor's Shared Shelf platform as a possible home for the...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Steven Nelson, Art History
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- Paris: Past and Present
- 3D Modeling of high Medieval Paris (1100-1300 CE)
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Meredith Cohen, Art History
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- Digital Anatolia
- This project pushes the boundaries of multimedia argumentation by offering a rapid, 4-D map-based approach to studying and exploring...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Christopher Johanson, Classics
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- Ancient Egyptian Coffins Project
- The goal of this project is to migrate Prof. Cooney's personal database of images and meta data pertaining to...
- Principal Investigator(s): Professor Kara Cooney, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
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- A Sense of Place
- A project to explore the relationship between space and narrative. We examine all aspects of this question, but will...
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. John Lynch, CDH
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- American Labor Who’s Who Database
- This project aims to convert scanned pages of a 1925 directory of trade union, immigrant rights and radical activists...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Toby Higbie, History
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- CSANA/UCLA Celtic Studies On-Line Bibliography Project
- Online bibliography that attempts to cover all aspects of Celtic studies and work on and in all the Celtic...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Joseph Nagy, English; Karen Burgess, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies