Author: Jill Hallam-Miller

Keira Koch (Gettysburg College) After studying the challenges of being a woman on a college campus during World War II, Digital Scholarship Summer Fellow Keira Koch decided to expand her research to post-war life. Her project “Hello Coed!” aggregates information from various scrapbooks, oral histories, college publications, and photographs from Gettysburg College’s Special Collections and…

Alexis Henshaw (Miami University) and Jill Hallam-Miller (Bucknell University) At a May 2015 Mellon Basic Pedagogy Workshop at Bucknell University, Alexis Henshaw, former Bucknell Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, and Jill Hallam-Miller, Blended Learning Librarian, examined potential benefits of having students create infographics as part of their semester-long projects for an International Relations course.…

Tawfiq Alhamedi (Lafayette College) Over centuries merchants, religious scholars, and Sufi mystics have migrated from Hadhramaut, a region in southern Yemen, to various coastal regions of the Indian Ocean. Using descriptions of prominent Indian Ocean port cities written by the renowned world traveler Ibn Battuta in the 14th century, this project presents an interactive map,…