Projects @ CDH

For over ten years, Southern Miss faculty, staff, and students have incorporated digital and computational methods in their research. Whether it’s for data compilation and analysis, or building digital repositories and exhibits, the CDH team assistants students and faculty with their projects. Check out the variety of projects created and/or directed by Southern Miss faculty.

English & Literature Based Projects

  • The Grave

    The Grave pioneers digital “poly-glossing” of word forms with respect to linguistic transition, which both looks back toward Old English and looks forward toward Middle English, as a resource for teaching History of the English Language.

    by Leah Parker, Ph.D.

  • The Gravestone Project

    The Gravestone Project (TGP) is a digital humanities collective that brings together scholars, taphophiles, students, writers, teachers, and others interested in history, literature, and the arts, to think about the various ways that people memorialize the dead.

    by Emily B. Stanback, Ph.D.

  • The Keats Letter Project

    The Keats Letter Project (KLP) is an exploration of the epistolary writing of Romantic poet John Keats.

    by Emily B. Stanback, Ph.D.

  • The New York School Diaspora

    "The New York School Diaspora" is a bi-weekly feature on The Best American Poetry Blog. Written by Angela Ball, it presents a poem by a poet influenced by the New York School of Poetry. Each poem is accompanied by the author’s bio and Ball’s commentary.

    by Angela Ball, Ph.D.

  • Quest Log

    Quest Log is a digital publication created by the student members of the USM Game Studies Group, and facilitated by Dr. Craig Carey. Quest Log publishes the work of USM students and alumni, including genres such as: critical writing, game reviews, creative pieces, memoirs, podcast episodes, gaming videos, and artwork.

    by Craig Carey, Ph.D.

  • Product

    Product is a student-run, online literary journal produced annually through the Center for Writers at the USM, facilitated by Adam Clay. Current submissions are open to Mississippi writers and artists.

    by Adam Clay, Ph.D.

History Based Projects

  • The 103rd Infantry Division Digital Humanities Project

    The 103rd Infantry Division Digital Humanities Project is a website and interactive digital archive that aims to preserve the past and explore and understand the men who served with the 103rd Infantry (Cactus) Division during their combat journey in Europe in the Second World War.

    by USM’s Dale Center for the Study of War & Society

  • The Beauvoir Veteran Project

    The Beauvoir Veteran Project (BVP) offers a quantitative analysis of Mississippi’s Confederate home, which operated from 1903 until it closed its doors in 1957.

    by Susannah J. Ural, Ph.D.

  • Riot Acts

    Riot Acts explores extralegal collective violence in the United States between 1783 and 1865. The project uses interactive web mapping, network analysis, machine learning, and more to allow users to visualize and analyze over 2,200 incidents of violence.

    by Patrick Hoehne, Ph.D.

  • War Stories: Preserving National Guard Voices

    War Stories: Preserving National Guard Voices captures and preserves the oral and written story of Mississippi’s National Guard during the transformational 21st Century.

    by USM’s Dale Center for the Study of War & Society

Interdisciplinary & Collaborative Projects

  • Digital Collections and Research Topics

    The USM Libraries offer digital access to archival materials to both preserve research materials and to promote teaching and scholarship.

    by USM Libraries

  • The Mississippi Community Cookbook Project

    The Mississippi Community Cookbook Project digitizes and describes community cookbooks published in Mississippi in the 20th century.

    by Professor Jennifer Brannock & Andrew Haley, Ph.D.

  • The Mississippi Digital Courthouse Project

    The Mississippi Digital Courthouse Project (MDCP) digitizes collections from the state's Circuit and Chancery Court records from the nineteenth- and twentieth- centuries to help southern Mississippi communities preserve their history.

    by Susannah J. Ural, Ph.D.

  • The USM Center for Oral History & Cultural Heritage

    The USM Center for Oral History & Cultural Heritage hosts several digital humanities projects, including the Mississippi Oral History Project and its related podcast, the Mississippi Moments Oral History Collection which highlights the Center’s collection through Mississippi voices and unique storytelling on all aspects of life and culture in the state.

    by Kevin Greene, Ph.D.

Philosophy Based Projects

  • Capital Punishment in Mississippi

    The Capital Punishment in Mississippi project explores and contextualizes the death penalty in Mississippi, as well as provides information on individuals executed by the state.

    by Sam Bruton, Ph.D.

  • Clyde Kennard: A Forgotten Hero

    The Clyde Kennard: A Forgotten Hero project explores Clyde Kennard’s attempts to integrate USM, actions taken against him, and his legacy.

    by Sam Bruton, Ph.D.