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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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…
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Violations Against Indigenous Peoples of Africa
Read more: Violations Against Indigenous Peoples of AfricaThis website documents historical and contemporary cases of human rights violations against indigenous peoples of Africa. Detailed case studies vary by country and type of violation. Subject to high levels…
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Umi’s Archive
Read more: Umi’s ArchiveUmi’s Archive is a multipart, multimedia research project that digs deep into the life of one woman, Amina Amatul Haqq (1950-2017), neé Audrey Weeks, to explore the meanings of being Black…
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Detroit Under Fire
Read more: Detroit Under FireDetroit Under Fire: Police Violence, Crime Politics, and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Civil Rights Era is a book-length digital exhibit published in March 2021 and created by the Policing and…
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Global Feminisms Project
Read more: Global Feminisms ProjectThe Global Feminisms Project (GFP) originated in 2002 to create an archive of oral histories from women scholars and activists from four countries: China, India, Poland, and the USA Since…
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Documenting Criminalization, Confinement, and Resistance
Read more: Documenting Criminalization, Confinement, and ResistanceDocumenting Criminalization, Confinement, and Resistance (DCCR) is the umbrella research initiative of the Carceral State Project (CSP), an interdisciplinary collaboration designed to bring impacted communities and advocacy organizations together with researchers from the…
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The Ecology Center
Read more: The Ecology CenterThis website, created by the Environmental Justice HistoryLab, is part of an ongoing collaboration between the Ecology Center and the University of Michigan Department of History. By excavating stories of environmental activism, justice, and…