Kristina Medina-Vilariño – Associate Professor, Romance Languages – Spanish
Alicia Henriquez Porras, Beatrice Hammel, Blake Wieseler, and Jimena Fernández – Student Researchers
Students from CURI, and several Spanish and Am Con courses have worked over the past four years on independent digital projects that have been the backbone of a local project with a transnational collaborative reach. Caribbean Studies Network. Our digital platform functions as a bridge between Caribbean cultural production outside the academy and academic studies led by undergraduate students anywhere in the world. The collaborative works we publish are guided by academic mentors and members of the communities or organizations on which each research focuses. Our network uses methodologies that are appropriate, socially just and specific to the intended audience. This CURI project will offer students the opportunity to engage with research questions and primary materials within the fields of Digital Humanities and Caribbean Cultural Studies in a bilingual fashion. With the help of IT staff, they create story maps and curated archives, analyze quantitative data, transcribe Spanish audios and interviews, upload, tag, and organize metadata by using methods pertinent to Cultural Studies. They will also identify potential research questions that could be answered using their newly developed digital archive on Dominican and Puerto Rican cultural production, and tap potential audiences to disseminate the data.
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CURI, Spanish, American Conversations |
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ArcGIS Story Maps, Thinglink, Google Maps, Video Production |
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Caribbean Studies Network site |
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