Digital Humanities Projects
Entanglements: Mapping the History of Asian Migration onto Coast Salish Lands (In Progress)
Entanglements is a collaborative digital counter-mapping project that documents the history of Asian American migration onto Coast Salish lands. The project draws on Indigenous feminist theory to ask how we might forge anticolonial pathways towards future solidarity between Asian American and Indigenous communities by identifying sites where Indigenous and immigrant stories from Coast Salish and Asian American communities intersect—allowing us to reimagine the map of Seattle as a meeting space for different histories. Project partner is Anna Nyugen.
Funded by a Mellon public humanities grant from the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities and the John and Mary Ann Mangels Endowed Fellowship for Public History.
Washington Racial Covenants Project (In Progress)
In spring 2021, the Washington State Legislature passed HB 1335, a bill funding and mandating research into the history of racially restrictive covenants in Washington. Until the late 1960s, these covenants prohibited nonwhite ownership or even residence in many thousands of properties across the state. This project, divided into eastern and western research teams at the University of Washington and Eastern Washington University, involves the combination of digital and archival methods to identify, investigate, and map properties in Washington with racially restrictive covenants in their deeds and other documentation.
Learn more about the project in the December 2021 issue of Perspectives.
Artwork by Marissa Rowell.
A Peoples’ Landscape: Racism and Resistance at UW
A People's’ Landscape is a collaborative digital public history mapping project undertaken by the People’s History graduate student collective on behalf of the University of Washington Black Student Union and Divest & Demilitarize UW. The map contributes to a long history of resistance and activism at UW and seeks to further contextualize the university’s history of racism, settler colonialism, and police violence.
Vancouver’s Contested Waterfront, 1897-1914
This digital history project, part of a dissertation chapter titled “Vancouver’s Disorderly Waterfront,” is a database and interactive map of police court and prisoner’s records, also called “Rogues Galleries,” that renders visible the spatialization, gendering, and racialization of crime and vice in Vancouver, British Columbia at the turn of the twentieth century.
This project received financial support from the University of Washington Summer Digital History Summer Fellowship in 2019 and 2020.
Galgapoła (Working Together) – A Collaborative Reframing of Kwakiutl Film and Audio Recordings with Franz Boas, 1930
Galgapoła is an interactive art history digital publication and collaborative project between author Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, University of Washington Press, University of British Columbia Press, Burke Museum staff, and Kwakwaka’wakw First Nation members. This digital “book” incorporates anthropological film footage, audio recordings, and material culture objects into a multi-path interactive online text that serves as both a scholarly peer-reviewed publication and educational tool for the Kwakwaka’wakw First Nation.
Madison’s assistance to the digital publishing side of the project were funded by the John and Mary Ann Mangels Endowed Fellowship for Public History and University of Washington Press. This project also received financial backing from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Next Exit History
Next Exit History is a mobile app under development with Three21 Innovations that provides history walking tours in various cities across the United States. As a research consultant with the American Society of Environmental History, Madison Heslop researched and produced original content on historic buildings and sites in Seattle for Next Exit History, including narrative text, historic and contemporary photos, and references.