Call for Applications: Digital Matters Graduate Residency Fellowship, Fall 2022
February 17, 2022
Digital Matters Fall 2022 Faculty Grant Awardees Announcement
May 5, 2022
Congratulations to Eliza McKinney (Department of History) who won the Digital Matters Fall 2022 Graduate Residency Fellowship!
Eliza will receive a $10,000 fellowship for the Fall semester and pursue a digital humanities project while in residence.
DM Grad Fellow, Fall 2022
Eliza McKinney is a master's student in the Department of History, primarily studying gender and sexuality in the 20th century U.S.
Womyn’s World: Lesbian Community in 90’s Salt Lake City
My project seeks to make the lesbian world represented in The Womyn’s Community Newsletter accessible and tangible for both scholars of queer history and interested community members. This is a project rooted in cultural preservation that also promotes queer tactics in community building. Not only is this history of lesbians largely unremembered, but the paper copies of The Womyn’s Community Newsletter that represent this period are ephemera, easily lost to neglect and decay. Preserving this newsletter digitally sustains avenues of research and understanding for current and future scholars. My objective is two-fold: to digitize and annotate every copy of The Womyn’s Community Newsletter, then to flesh out their represented geography through easily accessible tour maps, developing walking tours using Google My Maps to realize the landscape of lesbian spaces in 90s Salt Lake.
