CDHI Blog
A Q&A with Elio Colavito, CDHI Graduate Fellow
Department of History, U of T | Supervisor: Elspeth Brown Project Title: Mapping Transtopia: Transmasculine Mutual Aid, Crae, & Community Formation What are you hoping to learn as a CDHI fellow? I am hoping to learn from other DH scholars about how to best...
A Q&A with Janani Mandayam Comar, CDHI Graduate Fellow
Department for the Study of Religion, FAS | Supervisor: Srilata Raman Project Title: Caste, Literature, and Reading Publics: A Print History of Nandanar’s Story in Colonial and Postcolonial Tamil Nadu What are you hoping to learn as a CDHI fellow? My hope is to...
A Q&A with Mathew Iantorno, CDHI Graduate Fellow
Faculty of Information, U of T | Supervisor: Julie Yujie Chen Project Title: Toronto 14-24 What are you hoping to learn as a CDHI fellow? Overall, I aim to increase my proficiency with data visualization tools as well as gain a vaster knowledge of other...
A Q&A with Ellen Forget, CDHI Graduate Fellow
Faculty of Information, U of T | Supervisor: Alan Galey Project Title: Disability Representation in DH: Textual Encoding Initiative Schema for Braille Materials What are you hoping to learn as a CDHI fellow? As a CDHI fellow, I am hoping to engage with people...
A Q&A with Roxana Escobar Ñañez, CDHI Graduate Fellow
Department Geography and Planning, U of T | Supervisors: Matt Farish and Tamara Walker Project Title: Afro-Peruvian Women Digital Black Geographies What are you hoping to learn as a CDHI fellow? I’m hoping to learn how to put in conversation sonic and performances...
A Q&A with Amrita Kumar-Ratta, CDHI Graduate Fellow
Geography and Planning, FAS | Supervisor: Katharine Rankin Project Title: ‘Our Bodies Our Voices’: The Feminist Political Geographies of Reproductive Control & Justice in ‘Punjabi Canada’ What are you hoping to learn as a CDHI fellow? I am...
A Q&A with Christine H. Tran, CDHI Graduate Fellow
Faculty of Information, U of T | Supervisor: Nicole Cohen Project Title: Amid the Pink Collar: Dressing Up Against Precarity & Patriarchy in Game Streaming What are you hoping to learn as a CDHI fellow? As a CDHI Fellow, I hope to develop online community defence...
Meet CDHI’s 2023-24 Graduate Fellows!
We're thrilled to welcome our new cohort of Graduate Fellows to CDHI for the 2023-24 year — and, of course, we wanted to learn more about them. Click each image to read their Q&A and see what U of T grad students are working on! Elio Colavito Department of...
A Q&A with Réka Patrícia Gál, CDHI Graduate Fellow
Faculty of Information, U of T | Supervisors: Sarah Sharma & M. Murphy Project Title: Concrete Rain and Rocket Debris: Mapping the Environmental Harms of SpaceX's Boca Chica Rocket Launch Facility What are you hoping to learn as a CDHI fellow? I am really...
Queer Art and Archives: Critical DH Pedagogy in Action
Rachel Corbman shares her experience teaching “Queer Art and Archives,” a six-week information workshop she designed for Master of Information students at the University of Toronto.