Nicole Connell

The last of my DGAH classes, Textual Technology: Parchment to Pixel follows the history of text throughout the ages, analyzing the affordances of the various forms text can take. My final project is creating a digital critical edition of various English translations of Thucydides’ Melian Dialogue, from 1550 to 2009.

I took Hacking the Humanities my senior winter, which is one of the core courses for the DGAH minor. I had wanted to take it for a few years, but never managed to when course registration came around. The course covered a variety of digital tools and topics such as …

I had a chance to rejoin the Witness to the Revolution project my senior fall, taking it along side Serena Zabin’s American Revolution class. This time around, I was part of a dedicated sources team, which focused on reconstructing and finding as much information about the route one witness, Thomas …

My junior spring I took Digital History, Public Heritage, and Deep Mapping, a 300-level history course taught by Professor Austin Mason. The course was intended to focus on the history of the area around us, looking at the various layers of the area. We read various mapping theory, discussed and …

I took Introduction to Computer Science my junior spring, which was a class I was dreading taking for a long time. And yet, I learned that I actually really enjoyed the structured way of thinking that CS requires. Coding was yet another digital tool that I thought was completely out …

My junior winter I took Beyond the Walls; Introduction to Public History, which was a class that taught the history and methods of public history while also running a public history project. One of the key takeaways is the role of the stakeholder, or the members of the community who …

During the summer of my sophomore year, I went to Norfolk, England for three weeks with Susannah Ottaway and some of my classmates from Bringing the English Past to (Virtual) Life. The first week we spent in the Norfolk Record Office, which focused on digitization and research data collection. The …

During winter term of my sophomore year I took a class to learn about digital tools used in archaeology. This included QGIS, photogrammetry, virtual and augmented reality, and RADAR. My final project was a proposed AR project around the Carleton Campus, allowing patrons to view both historic photos of what …

In the winter of my sophomore year, I took a class with Susannah Ottaway and Austin Mason on workhouses in England and various digital tools for public facing history. The class was also held in partnership with the Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse museum, who were were creating materials for. In …

I started working in the Carleton Archives my sophomore fall, and have continued to work there for the last three years. It’s been an amazing opportunity, to work with materials relating to Carleton’s history and working to preserve, maintain, and provide access to those records. The relevance of this work …