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Meet Our Students

Discover the diverse voices that shape our program. From archival research to digital storytelling, students bring various experiences and interests, all driven by a commitment to interdisciplinary exploration and innovation.

Katrina Patlow    
Meredith Sauer    
     

Our Alumni

Each student in the Digital Humanities MA program completes a capstone project as the culmination of their coursework—an opportunity to showcase their applied skills, research interests, and creative approaches to digital scholarship. Below is a list of alumni and their completed capstone projects.

2025

Tim Bertucci Variātiōnēs Neolatīnae: Digitally Mapping Romance Phonetic Outcomes
Jeremiah Lateef Digital Archive of Ijebu Yoruba Àṣọ̀ Olónà: Exploring Symbolism, Authority, and Meaning
Shwetha Lnu Learning With/In Fandoms: Cultural Curiosity and Knowledge-Making in Studio Ghibli’s Transcultural Fan Communities

2024

Ria De Echoes of Tragedy: The Bengal Famine of 1770

This digital exhibit unveils the tale of one of the deadliest famines in India. Explore the vast expanse of affected regions, migration patterns, and how the East India Company's pursuit of profit intertwined with the suffering of 30 million people.
Consuelo Diaz de Valdes Navarrete Mosaico

This digital platform aims to highlight the rich cultural heritage and vital contributions of the Latin American community to Chicago. Having observed a significant gap in public awareness surrounding the history and presence of the Latin American community in Chicago, Mosaico seeks to provide a comprehensive index and interactive map showcasing these invaluable resources and community hubs.
Caroline Houser Masks of Mexico & The May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection

This is a digital archive and teaching resource of the Mexican masks of the May Weber collection. The project explores how masks have persisted and existed throughout Mexican culture, from pre-contact to present day, and how do we contextualize that data in a digital record?
Brianna Wright Entre Nous: Gossip and the Production of the Little Review

How does gossip function as a tool for information building in the context of curating a little magazine? Discover how gossip in the correspondence between Amy Lowell and Margaret Anderson works to in/exclude a network of poets and assert critical values.

2023

Felix Oke ExtractV: Visualizing Dickinson’s Variables 

 

2022

Emma Bauman The Virginia Duff Digital Archive

 

2021

Owen Ruggerio Too Big to Fail: #OWS and Reconstructing a Moment
Prakruti Maniar Creating an Indian Literary Database: Theory and Practice
Regina Hong Traces of Time: a digital database on the pre-war Japanese community in Singapore
Anna Kroon Dino in the Hill: Designing a Digital Edition for Children
Andrew French The Stoker Serials: A Digital Edition of the Serialized Versions of Bram Stoker's Dracula
Eliora Horst WordPress Theme for Digital Critical Editions

 

2018-2020

2020
Zach Stella Academic Humanities Infrastructure, Libraries, and the Future of DH: A Case Study of Loyola University Chicago Libraries’ Online Catalog
Ericka Christie Black Lives Matter: Mirroring Entanglements in the Rogue Digital Archive
Caroline McCraw English Trade Cards: A Digital Companion
Xiaolin (Bill) Sun East Asian Textile

A companion project to the May Weber Digital Collection is East Asian Textiles, a DH capstone project by Xiaolin Sun that provides access and information to 84 textiles from the Weber Collection. This project features faceted searching across object catalogue records, high-resolution digital images, microphotography, 360 degree photography, mapping, and extensive contextual information about the textiles. The data for this project was drawn from existing catalogue records as well as Xiaolin's 2019 filedwork in Guizhou, China.

 

2019
Rebecca Parker #PlainTxtPodcast: A DH Social Experi{ence|ment
Abdur Khan Rush Hour: How do Chicago's Neighborhoods Use Public Transit?
Tina Figueroa Chitown Food Aid
Taylor Brown The Digital Variorum of Wordsworth's "Nutting"

 

2018
Tyler Monagan OTU-db: State of the Union Database
Adam Depew The Nostromo Project
Maureen Smith The Big Brick House
Andrea Pacheco DREAMers in Higher Education

 

2017
Julie Wrobleski Chicago Writer’s Block: Mapping Chicago's Literary Culture in the Digital Realm
Maria Camila Palacios Periodismo en tiempos de guerra: Colombia 1998-2002

 

2016
Niamh McGuigan Function Words, Topic Models and Lexical Variety: Statistical Approaches to Close Reading The Good Soldier
Amanda Jensen Roots4all: A Genealogical Repository Mapping Tool

 

2015
Uzzie Cannon  
Joshua Torres  

 

2014
Adam Tenhouse  
Erik Hanson Mapping The Possible: Graph Database Concept Using Nintendo's "Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina Of Time" and Neo4j

 

2014
Adam Tenhouse  
Erik Hanson Mapping The Possible: Graph Database Concept Using Nintendo's "Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina Of Time" and Neo4j
Caitlin Pollock  
Hannah Gillow  

 

2013
Helen Davies The Digital Danelaw - Viking Life in Medieval Britain
Trevor Borg Single Page Apps for Humanists: A Case Study Using the Perseus Richmond Times Corpus

 

2012
Mindy Gagel  

Discover the diverse voices that shape our program. From archival research to digital storytelling, students bring various experiences and interests, all driven by a commitment to interdisciplinary exploration and innovation.

Katrina Patlow    
Meredith Sauer    
     

Each student in the Digital Humanities MA program completes a capstone project as the culmination of their coursework—an opportunity to showcase their applied skills, research interests, and creative approaches to digital scholarship. Below is a list of alumni and their completed capstone projects.