Native Places: An Indigenous Atlas of Utah and the Intermountain West John Flynn is a PhD student in history. His research focuses on environmental history and the American West. Before coming to Utah, he worked as a journalist in Austin, writing about science and the environment....
Open Wounds Daniel Uncapher is a PhD student in Creative Writing at the University of Utah with an MFA from Notre Dame, where he was a Nicholas Sparks Fellow. A disabled bisexual from North Mississippi, his work has appeared in The Sun, Chicago Quarterly Review, Tin...
Indigenous cryptocurrency: Finance, capital, and the digital ghost of empire Ashley Cordes (Coquille) is an assistant professor of Indigenous communication at the University of Utah. Her research lies at the intersections of digital media, critical/cultural studies, and Indigenous studies. Some of her research can be found...
#Representation Matters: Mapping Gender, Race, and Sexuality on Twitter Sarah E. S. Sinwell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media Arts at the University of Utah. She has published essays on Kickstarter, Green Porno, Riverdale, and Dexter in A Companion to American...
Negative Space: Illustration as Historical Engagement Todd Samuelson is the Assistant Director for Special Collections at the J. Willard Marriott Library, where he works with other archivists and curators to provide access to the Library’s manuscript, print, and media collections. Todd’s research agenda addresses the technologies...
Marnie Powers-Torrey holds an MFA in Photography from the University of Utah and a BA in English and Philosophy from the Boston College Honors Program. Marnie is an Associate Librarian at the Marriott Library, where she serves as head of the Book Arts Program. She...
One question that seems to be sitting with me is if digital design scholarship pertains to what you are designing, or who you are designing with? I think there should be a greater emphasis on the multiplicity and diversity of research sources. This seems to...
This project attempts to historicize the very recent past (the last 25 years) of poetry publishing. In doing so, I hope it provides another vocabulary or way of thinking about how the poetry community has and will continue to change. --Max Schleicher, Fall 2020 DM Graduate...
The project I worked on, Native Places Atlas, provides a digital map of Utah onto which Native peoples can provide names for places. The project is a response to a history of colonization and erasure of indigenous placenames. Through the naming of space and mapping,...
I think the most crucial insight that I have gained is that thinking about these photographs as having “data” or even “metadata” that needs to be simply collected and input so that the digital exhibit and interactive map can function does not at all comply...