The primary goal of LEADR, the Lab for Education & Advancement in Digital Research at MSU, is to facilitate student research in History and Anthropology using a variety of digital methods and tools. I was Director from 2019-2023 (and was Assistant Director from 2016-2019). Lab staff members worked with faculty to design digital projects and …
Category: Digital Humanities
Dissertation
My PhD dissertation in Byzantine art history utilized digital methods such as photogrammetry, vector modeling, and web mapping to argue that monumental ceiling crosses were designed objects used to manipulate the experience of viewers in Cappadocian monuments. McMichael, Alice Lynn. “Rising Above the Faithful: Monumental Ceiling Crosses in Byzantine Cappadocia.” PhD dissertation, The Graduate Center, …
Byzantine Studies and DH
In Fall 2017 I was invited to develop a workshop on the intersection of Digital Humanities and Byzantine Studies for the Byzantine Studies Conference in Minneapolis in 2017. My article on the same topic was published in Peregrinations Journal: McMichael, A.L. “The Byzantine Scholar’s Digital Portfolio,” in Brad Hostetler and Sarah Blick, eds., Peregrinations, vol. …
Dewey Digital Teaching Award
Description The New Media Lab’s Dewey Digital Teaching Award is a recognition of teaching has been “transformed by the innovative use of new technologies,” especially for work accomplished by doctoral student adjuncts and teaching fellows. I received it for my work on Documenting Cappadocia in Fall 2012.
Cappadocia on the Commons
Description The Cappadocia on the Commons initiative augments the Digital Catalog of Cappadocian Ceiling Crosses with an interactive map and 3D models of Byzantine monuments, curated into a public-facing web resource. This project begins with a digital dissertation data contribution to a stable repository. The data is then pulled into a public facing website that …
Tagging the Tower Posts
Description The GC Digital Fellows Program operates as an “in-house think-and-do tank” for digital projects throughout the Graduate Center. Tagging the Tower, a group blog on the GC Digital Fellows website, is a collection of posts that include reflections, tutorials, and events. My contributions (highlights below) were added between 2012 and 2015. Posts Evaluating, Valuing, …
“Collaborative Definitions” AHTR Essay
Description The essay was a response to an activity from my Fall 2015 course, Digital Humanities and the Modern City, in which the students were given agency to define digital humanities for themselves. This assignment reflection was first disseminated on AHTR Weekly, a blog on the Art History Teaching Resources (AHTR) website which had more …
DH Workshops
Description I have taught a variety of digital humanities skills workshops. Some were one-off skills events for faculty and graduate students at the Graduate Center as part of the GC Digital Fellows workshop series. These were designed to connect graduate researchers to accessible tools and methods to answer research question for scholarly projects. Others were …
Reconstructing a Sacred Barrier
Project Reconstructing a Sacred Barrier Description This project centers around a 3D model that combines my own photographic data with historical photos and descriptions for a better understanding of a Byzantine monument that was partially destroyed in the twentieth century. Recognition 2015 NYCDH Graduate Student Digital Project Award, Second Prize Project introduction The following post …
Digital Humanities and the Modern City
Project Digital Humanities and the Modern City course Baruch College, Fall 2015 co-instructor John Maciuika Syllabus To view the entire syllabus as a PDF, click here. Description This course was an endowed Feit Seminar, designed to facilitate interdisciplinary, collaboratively-taught themes to a small and select group of students within the curriculum of the Weissman School …
Documenting Cappadocia
Description Documenting Cappadocia is an open access digital humanities resource on Byzantine art, architecture, and landscape features in the region of central Turkey. This bibliography, blog, gallery, and online community offers a starting point for academic research and background information for travelers. The project’s goal is to bridge the gap between commercial sources and published …
Digital Catalog of Cappadocian Ceiling Crosses
Description The Digital Catalog of Cappadocian Ceiling Crosses (DC_CCC) will be a database of my dissertation data, deposited in open repositories and visualized for public dissemination as an interactive catalog of all known monumental ceiling crosses in Byzantine Cappadocia, a region that is now central Turkey. Recognition This my capstone project for the 2015-2016 NEH-sponsored …
