Recipe for Radiant Reflections: More HASTAC Scholars in the Mix

The HASTAC Scholars program is growing by leaps and bounds!  We have an impressive cadre of scholars with diverse interests and expertise, and it is my pleasure to offer you a brief introduction to our most recent appointees:

Rizvana Braxton, a graduate student in Literature at Duke University, whose interests include fashion history and theory, contemporary visual culture, critical studies in new media and technology and the body.

Nicole Coleman, a senior in Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), who is interested in NVivo coding, website development, thematic coding and African-American studies.

Christopher Hanson, a graduate student Critical Studies at the University of Southern California's (USC) School of Cinematic Arts, who researches issues of time and space in digital media and technologies, focusing on the cultural, social and political implications of replay and repetition.

Brian Jacobson, a graduate student in Critical Studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, whose work explores the origins of the relationship between moving images, architecture and technology by examining the world's first film production spaces around the turn of the 20th century.

Yang Hye Jim, a graduate student in Teaching English as a Second Language at UIUC, who is interested in computer assisted language learning, videolearning and user-created contents.

Ga-Young Joung, an undergraduate studying Biomedical and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Duke University, whose interests include robotics, virtual reality applications like the Duke DiVE project, and promoting green/sustainable technology through programs like Engineers Without Borders.

Angela M. Kinney, a graduate student in Classical Philology at UIUC, who is interested in website development, online learning and online rare book exhibits.

Joshua McVeigh-Schultz, a graduate student at the University of California at Santa Cruz, who is interested in using online tools to rethink political engagement and performance and who is developing a (many-to-many) crowd-sourcing interview tool to reexamine the structure of the traditional one-on-one interview.

Isabel A. Millan, a graduate student in American Culture at the University of Michigan, whose interests include new media, digital technologies and globalization, multimedia and the socialization of children/youth, and identity formation and representations.

Edward Moses, a graduate student in Educational Policy Studies at UIUC, whose interests include diasporic Black culture, spoken word, B-Boying, Katrina, HEAVE Media and Smile Politely Webzine.

Megan Osfar, a graduate student in Linguistics at UIUC, who is interested in digital sound, website development and programming.

Veronica Paredes, a graduate student in Interdivisional Media Arts & Practice at USC's School of Cinematic Arts, whose interests include musical subcultures, the Internet Anti-Empire, the contradictions of a digital global economy, embodiments of the network and transational digital subjectivities.

Kylie Prymus, a Philosophy graduate student and University Scholar at Duke University teaching at Converse College in South Carolina, whose interests include the cultural impact of social networking sites on moral norms, online identity formation, and video gaming and its impact on broader cultural norms.

Chalet Seidel, a graduate student in English at Case Western Reserve University, whose work explores the professionalization of journalism amid the rapidly changing technological and information environment of the late 19th-century as an origin of the profressoinal boundary testing of our current digital world.

Staci L. Shultz, a graduate student in the joint program in English & Education at the University of Michigan, who is interested in online fan fiction sites, particularly as they may inform composition pedagogy.

Suzanne Scott, a graduate student in Critical Studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, whose interests include fan communities and participatory cultures, transmedia narratives, MMORPGs and the shifting cultural signficance of authorship and canon.

Kathleen Smith, a graduate student in Germanic Literatures and Languages at UIUC, who works on the German Emblem book project and is interested in digital archives.

Whitney Trettien, a graduate student in Comparative Media Studies at MIT, who works at the HyperStudio Lab for the Digital Humanities and whose thesis explores the relationship between early modern proteic poetry (ars combinatoria) and contemporary practices in computational art.

 

Congratulations and welcome to all of you!

If you would like more information about the HASTAC Scholars Program, or if your institution might be interested in sponsoring a HASTAC Scholar, please contact Erin Gentry Lamb, at erin.gentry@duke.edu.