Author: Cassandra Hradil

School Protests in Africa is a dynamic digital scholarship project whose central premise revolves around resurfacing the frequency and prevalence of modern youth-led protests in Africa.

Leaflet.js is a lightweight, open source Javascript library that is widely used to create and share web mapping projects online.

D3 (Data Driven Documents) is an open source Javascript library that is widely used by data experts, creative technologists, and scholars to create and share many different kinds of data visualizations on the web. D3 is a “web-first” visualization library, making it a great tool for creating an interactive visualization that can be embedded in a larger digital project.

For our beginner-friendly “data gathering” session, we had over 30 attendants come together in a hands-on workshop to reflect on how we might gather and curate datasets from our own lives.

Led by Cassandra Hradil, Elliot Montpelier, and Deb Stewart, this workshop explored some of the existing intersections between anthropology and the digital humanities, as well as opportunities for cross-pollination.

Cassidy Holahan (PhD Candidate in the English Department) and Anyelina Wu (senior, Fine Arts + Computer Science) teamed up with DH specialist Cassandra Hradil and project lead Mélanie Péron (senior lecturer in the French Department) on the Occupied Paris project. Occupied Paris brings together research, oral histories, archival materials, and maps on approximately ten key figures who experienced the Nazi occupation of Paris during WWII.

This summer, students from different disciplines gathered over Zoom to learn and work together on six digital humanities projects that are being supported by the Price Lab and Penn Libraries.