The following are examples of projects that DS @ U-M has worked with in the past. Each listing has a description of the project along with information like funding sources, technical platforms used, and which people and department(s) were involved.
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The Egalitarian Metropolis
Read more: The Egalitarian MetropolisThe Michigan-Mellon Project on the Egalitarian Metropolis is an Urban Humanities Initiative organized around a partnership of humanists, architects/urban designers/planners, and community leaders. A collaboration between the University of Michigan’s Taubman…
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The First 100: Chicanas Changing History
Read more: The First 100: Chicanas Changing HistoryThis project was one of six Anti-Racist Digital Research Initiative (ARDRI) awardees and led by Dr. Lorena Chambers, a Postdoctoral Fellow in History and American Culture at U-M, and Dr. Margaret Salazar Porzio, Curator…
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Virtual Writer’s Museum
Read more: Virtual Writer’s MuseumWriter’s House Museum and Digital Collection Student projects in this collection come from a course taught by Prof. Magdalena J. Zaborowska in American Culture and Afroamerican Studies and each semester…
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Virulent Hate Project
Read more: Virulent Hate ProjectThe Virulent Hate Project, led by Dr. Melissa May Borja, uses news media to research trends in anti-Asian racism and Asian American activism. We identify, analyze, and map incidents of anti-Asian…
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Star Spangled Music
Read more: Star Spangled MusicThe Star Spangled Music Foundation — a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization — was created on September 14, 2012 by dedicated musicians, scholars, and educators to recognize the 200th anniversary of…
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Korean Art Song Resource
Read more: Korean Art Song ResourceThis project began in 2020 supported by the ArtsEngine at the University of Michigan and works to make Korean art song accessible to English speakers. To date, we have collected nearly…
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Study & Struggle: Tracking Anti-HMoob Violence in CA, MN, and WI, 1975-2019
Read more: Study & Struggle: Tracking Anti-HMoob Violence in CA, MN, and WI, 1975-2019In November 2022, the Anti-HMoob Violence Research Project released its white paper, Study & Struggle. This white paper is part of a multi-year, multi-methods study on hate violence against HMoob people from…
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Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Read more: Navigating Disability in 19th-Century AmericaThis exhibit brings together materials from the Clements Library at the University of Michigan that illuminate the history of disability in the nineteenth-century United States. Most of these artifacts are…
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Crafting Democratic Futures
Read more: Crafting Democratic FuturesCrafting Democratic Futures (CDF) project is a national network of humanities scholars located at nine geographically and organizationally diverse colleges and universities to develop research-informed, community-based reparations plans for each…
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Spanish Talker Intuition Regarding Rate of Speech Repository
Read more: Spanish Talker Intuition Regarding Rate of Speech RepositoryHow do dialects of Spanish differ from one another? How do Spanish speakers perceive these differences? What are the specific language features that make one Spanish more challenging to learn…
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Below the Line: The Feuilleton & Modern Jewish Cultures
Read more: Below the Line: The Feuilleton & Modern Jewish Cultures“Below the Line” provides open-access resources for those interested in learning more about the feuilleton and its importance in the formation of modern Jewish cultures.
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Anishinaabe Plants: Learning from Museum Collections at the University of Michigan
Read more: Anishinaabe Plants: Learning from Museum Collections at the University of MichiganHow do Indigenous peoples make baskets and mats using plants native to the Great Lakes region? In 1933, Volney Jones, an ethnobotanist at the University of Michigan’s Museum of Anthropology, set out…