Nothing quite embodies the graduate education experience like a dissertation. But Stacey Patton’s 2013 CHE article “The Dissertation Can No Longer Be Defended,” responds to the job market crisis with an …
Author: Sam O'Hana
Sam is a doctoral candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, researching creative lifespans. He previously worked in public programming at Howl! Arts and the Bowery Poetry Club.
Tabless Thursday
We have Meatless Mondays, Taco Tuesdays, and now we have a digital diet day: Tabless Thursday. Dr. James Hamblin at The Atlantic makes a compelling argument for why we should single …
WordPress 2: Categories, Menus, and Widgets
WordPress 2 Handout Image by Lisa Risager from Denmark (WordPress 10th anniversary Uploaded by palnatoke) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Making It Visual
My first major project as a Digital Fellow will be to work with a very impressive team to make interactive visualization/ map of the impact of the Graduate Center on …
Announcing “Digital Dissertations Resources”
The GC Digital Fellows are happy to announce a new resource for students who are interested in creating a digital dissertation (and the committee members and academic departments who support …
DH Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Digital Humanities
The first in a series of posts in which I set out to provide a short review of several different aspects of the digital humanities from a non-digital humanist perspective, with the mindset or culture of DH being just the beginning.
A Crash Course in Digital Photo Editing
Understanding the Basics of Digital Images Because digital photography is ubiquitous in both digital and print projects, this post is geared toward bloggers and scholars who would like an introduction …
Introduction to Image Editing Handout
Posted below is a link to the handout for the “Introduction to Image Editing” workshop that was held on April 10, 2014. The workshop was organized for attendees who are …
Learning to Map with ArcGIS StoryMaps
Introduction Maps are extremely versatile tools for communicating ideas and information. Creating maps can be challenging, but this tutorial will introduce one tool that simplifies the process of making several …
Intro to Data Cleaning and Visualization Tools Handout
This is the handout from the “Introduction to Data Cleaning and Visualization Tools” workshop led by Micki Kaufman* on Thursday, March 13th 2014. The workshop presented the fundamentals of using …
