“I hope to create enough interest in the photograph to spark the viewer’s own imagination about what’s happening.”
Fall 2023
The Art of Mapping History
ClioVis is reshaping — literally — how relationships between historical events are visualized.
Ask An Aqueduct
You’ve seen them on TV and in movies, in History Channel specials and textbooks on antiquity, maybe even on a tour of the Italian countryside. But to archaeologist Rabun Taylor, there’s more to aqueducts than meets the eye.
A Selfless Art
A wanderer (and COLA alum) puts down roots and grows communities.
Pictures Snapping into Place
Steven Hoelscher brings a geographer’s critical eye to the study of photography and history.
How Maps Can Kill: Lessons in Critical Cartography
Steven Seegel exposes the distortions, biases, and hidden agendas behind the seemingly objective art of cartography.
The Clothes Make the Manuscript
In “Fashioning Spanish Cinema: Costume, Identity, and Stardom,” Jorge Pérez decodes Chanel suits and starched shorts in Spanish cinema.
Old Threads, New Threads
Faegheh Shirazi weaves a career in cultural textiles.
Art, Science, and the Wide World of Infowhelm
Overwhelmed by information about climate change? Heather Houser has a word for a that, and a possible solution: Art.
These Are Not Just Any Greeting Cards
Craig Campbell’s “Greeting Cards for the Anthropocene” don’t look anything like Hallmark.
Gamifying Japanese History and Literature with JapanLab
From video games to virtual reality, JapanLab is bringing history into the 21st century and beyond.
The Scholar and the Artist
Cherise Smith looks at Michael Ray Charles looking at the world.
Finding Humility Along the Supply Chain
Sharmila Rudrappa brings students from Texas to Sweden to India to explore the realities behind “ethical fashion.”
Blood in the Water: A Graphic Story
A graphic story by American Studies Ph.D. student and cartoonist Coyote Shook that explores the shark-related research of American Studies professor Janet Davis, one of Shook’s advisors, in the context of Shook’s own work as well as the broader field of “blue humanities.”