This talk outlines theoretical and methodological approaches of digital gazetteers, and highlights the increasing use and importance of Linked Open Data (LOD) in the practice of digital spatial humanities. It explores how a wide variety of research projects and pedagogi...

This presentation includes a brief overview of UCLA's Digital Humanities Program, introduces projects and methods as well as local people (Wendy, Anthony, and Ashley) and their expertise(s). The methods covered: text analysis/text-mining, mapping, 3D modeling -- and, pe...

The paper reports on transcription as a means to increase usability and access to specialized audio collections in the library. We discuss the complexity of transcriptions as a both a political and linguistic process rather than a neutral one. Two audiovisual collection...

ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS This project attempts to offer an extended discussion related to objects as an attachment, as body extension, as interlocutors in how the individual (the body) experience the world. It refers to the physical representation and the many attempts to...

Actors are often praised and lauded for their ability to seamlessly transform into characters that are very different from themselves. It is why method acting is so appealing to many of us actors and why the Oscar awards are usually given to those who disappear behind t...

This dissertation analyzes the last four books of an influential, fourth-century CE, Christian text, the Historia Ecclesiastica (History) written by church historian and bishop, Eusebius of Caesarea Maritima. Rather than approaching this Patristic text through a literar...

This dissertation explores the lives of Afro-Mexicans who lived in the Port-City of Veracruz and its hinterland, known as Sotavento (Leeward), during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. It focuses on the understudied Afro-Mexican population of Veracruz and...

Robustness and counterfactual bias are usually evaluated on a test dataset. However, are these evaluations robust? In other words, if a model is robust or unbiased on a test set, will the properties still hold under a slightly perturbed test set? In this paper, we propo...

“The Realism of Seeing the Text in Nineteenth-Century Fiction” investigates the way material features of nineteenth-century texts imagine the relationship between seeing and reading. It specifically examines literal illustrations, visual depictions of alphabetic textual...

Beginning in the mid-seventeenth century, colonial projects in southern New England sponsored dozens of communities commonly called “praying towns.” Missionaries and colonial authorities envisioned these as bounded settlements where Indigenous people would learn to adop...