Projects
Each project is a test drive for our model of scholarly production. This allows us to continually assess our vision of what scholarly communications in the digital age looks like.
Beyond Nuremberg
A virtual reality, time-travel mission that challenges users to collect, analyze, and piece together archival evidence of the human impacts and legacies of the Holocaust and Nuremberg trials.
An animated short set to an instrumental jazz arrangement of a Christian hymn, that raises questions about the state of contemporary Christendom, its relationship to politics, and our shared responsibility to heal.
A virtual reality reconstruction that offers users a multi-modal window into an event of world-historical importance; the coronation of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in Bologna, Italy in 1530.
Cheney Silk
Cheney Silk explores the complicated relationship of owners and workers of the Cheney Brothers Silk Manufacturing Company.
A card game that facilitates humble conversations about one’s own convictions. Players gain empathy for others, engage with varying viewpoints, and reflect upon their own motivations and beliefs.
An interactive branching narrative in which users explore worlds envisioned by philosopher and writer Vilém Flusser, inspired by writings intended to become the basis for “image-making.”
A year-long online remote journaling program for survivors of Japanese American World War II Incarceration.
A map-based exploration of the relationship between immigration, mobility, place-making and identity-formation in Connecticut, focusing on the three Great Migration traditions as they converged in Hartford.
An augmented reality app that geographically situates UConn’s history of student activism and protest and makes visible forgotten aspects of the University’s recent past.
An interactive website examining UConn’s colonial history and the Morrill Act of 1862, which established Land Grant Universities through the violent dispossession of Indigenous people in the American west.
An interactive tool for teaching and learning Classical or Early Modern Irish grammar. Léamh encourages users to maintain a regular program of study, identifying aspects of the language they need additional time to master.
An online institute and professional development opportunity for project managers in the digital humanities and allied fields aimed at improving remote collaboration and facilitation skills.
An app connecting researchers to archival documents that cannot be found online. Sourcery streamlines the archival process by providing one simple platform that works at any collecting institution.