Grants Awarded 2021-2022

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2021-2022

• Mapping the Growth and Changing Land Use of the XPCC, Phase 1
• Russian through Cinema Website
• Chinese Food in American Culture
• Encyclopedia of the Dog: Annotations to Sasha Sokolov's Between Dog and Wolf
• Thomas Jefferson University Late Antique Egyptian Textile Catalog

A Case of Carceral Urbanism? Mapping the Growth and Changing Land Use of the XPCC

Team

• Lauren Restrepo (Assistant Professor, Growth and Structure of Cities) - Project Director
• Zachary Silvia (PhD Candidate, Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology) - DS Graduate Assistant & GIS Specialist
• Mari Ocando-Finol (LITS) - Project Manager
• Alice McGrath (LITS) - Consultant and TLR Liaison
• Undergraduate Digital Scholarship Project Assistants (2)

Timeline

January 2022- August 2022

Description

This grant supported research into XPCC's current land holdings, combining several spatial datasets to identify known prisons, concentration camps, and factories of forced labor and understand the extent of the detention of Uyghur minorities. Team used machine learning to identify additional locations and track changes in land use over time.

Russian through Cinema Website

Team

• Irina Walsh, Department of Russian, Bryn Mawr College

Timeline

November 2021 - January 2022

Description

This grant supported hiring a student to develop a website for Russian through Cinema, a paper textbook (Kudyma, Six, and Walsh, 2022). The textbook aims at helping learners of Russian understand and discuss contemporary Russian-language films. The textbook offers intermediate and advanced level readings (blogs, biographies, poems, songs, film reviews, etc.) with assignments that help learners develop effective reading skills. The main features of the textbook encourage learners to expand their vocabulary by approximately 1300-1400 lexical items, including specialized vocabulary for discussing films. The website focuses on helping learners master this massive new vocabulary, through vocabulary decks and self-correcting vocabulary exercises. Aside from vocabulary drills, the website has links to the films and keys to the textbook assignments for course instructors. 

Chinese Food in American Culture

Team

• Changchun Zhang, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Lecturer of Chinese on the Jye Chu Lectureship in Chinese Studies

Timeline

December 2021 - January 2022

Description

This grant supported hiring a student to edit videos about Chinese food and Chinese food culture in the United States.

Encyclopedia of the Dog: Annotations to Sasha Sokolov's Between Dog and Wolf

Team

• José Vergara, Russian Department, Project Lead
• Martina Napolitano, University of Udine, Editor & annotation co-lead
• Alice McGrath, LITS, Tech lead
• Andy Janco, Haverford Libraries, Consultant
• Camilla MacKay, Mari Ocando Finol, Chris Boyland, LITS, Consultants
• Cameron Boucher, Jackie Toben (Digital Scholarship Project Assistants)
• Annotation Collaborators: Noemi Albanese, University of Rome, Peter Baumann, Swarthmore College, Stephen Dodson, Independent Translator/Editor, S.A. Karpukhin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sasha Sokolov, Author, Tim Langen, University of Missouri-Columbia

Timeline

November 2021 - May 2023

Description

This grant supports the creation of The Encyclopedia of the Dog, a complete and freely accessible bilingual digital edition of Sasha Sokolov’s 1980 novel Between Dog and Wolf. It features both the original Russian text and Alexander Boguslawski’s English translation as well as multiple kinds of annotations to help readers grasp the various meanings, allusions, and layers of the novel.

Thomas Jefferson University Late Antique Egyptian Textile Catalog

Team

• Alicia Walker, HART
• Marianne Weldon, LITS
• Chloe Rimmerman, BMC '24

Timeline

June - August 2022

Description

The grant supported hiring a student researcher to process data about Late Antique Egyptian Textiles produced in undergraduate research seminars, input the data in JSTOR Forum, and prepare technical documentation so future students can input their own data.