From a9b5576de1cc27b48777351b56f61add7f2fd44c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jojokarlin Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2023 21:20:01 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add Jo copy --- .../2023-06-22-fellow-spotlight-black-burials.md | 14 ++++++++------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/source/_news/2023-06-22-fellow-spotlight-black-burials.md b/source/_news/2023-06-22-fellow-spotlight-black-burials.md index c339f495..8e9f5649 100644 --- a/source/_news/2023-06-22-fellow-spotlight-black-burials.md +++ b/source/_news/2023-06-22-fellow-spotlight-black-burials.md @@ -3,22 +3,24 @@ title: "Jubilee Marshall on Black Burials in Philadelphia: A Walking Tour" category: highlight series: graduate fellow spotlight date: 2023-06-21 -author: Jojo Karlin +author: Jo Suk tags: - grad_fellows abstract: | - 2022 Graduate Fellow Jubilee Marshall, M.A., Black Burials in Philadelphia: A Walking Tour + 2021 Graduate Fellow Jubilee Marshall designs a walking tour of historic sites in Old City Philadelphia --- ![](image) -For her Graduate Fellowship project, 2022 Fellow Jubilee Marshall built on research she had done in her undergraduate thesis, published in 2020 in “Pennsylvania History", to create a mobile-friendly, browser-based digital walking tour of Old City Philadelphia that features white and Black churches and graveyards. +2021 Graduate Fellow Jubilee Marshall designs a walking tour of historic sites in Old City Philadelphia -When asked what she was most proud of, Marshall remarked, "This project gave me a really valuable opportunity to learn technical skills in order to create a digital public history project. I was able to parlay these foundational skills into my graduate thesis and my professional career. The digital projects that I have worked on since have gained some recognition both at NYU (Threesis Academic Challenge Third Place, Department of History Master's Award for Academic Achievement, and GSAS Master's Award for Academic Achievement (I am currently a finalist)) and beyond." In April she presented on digital publication at the National Council on Public History's Digital Public History Lab at their annual conference. +Jubilee Marshall’s Graduate Fellow project, Black Burials in Philadelphia: A Walking Tour, enriches the existing narrative of white and Black churches, graveyards, and other historic sites in Philadelphia. The digital walking tour takes visitors through around a dozen stops, accompanied by a detailed portrait of the milieu surrounding each location. -Marshall commented, "although this specific project is complete, my experience as a DH grad fellow directly informed my graduate thesis and the work I am doing now. I used NYU web hosting and the digital knowledge I developed through my fellowship to create a website exploring the impact of Gone with the Wind (and its digital fandom) on popular conceptions of slavery and the Civil War (https://jubilee.hosting.nyu.edu/sites/). +“This project gave me a really valuable opportunity to learn technical skills in order to create a digital public history project,” Marshall reflects. “I was able to parlay these foundational skills into my graduate thesis and my professional career.” Some of the skills and resources Marshall credits in her project are NYU web hosting, Digital Scholarship Services, and NYU accessibility guides. -Taking advantage of NYU web hosting and digital scholarship services, as well as NYU's accessibility guides, Marshall built her skills through her Digital Humanities Graduate Fellowship. +Since the Graduate Fellowship, Marshall has applied her digital knowledge to a number of projects. Marshall’s aforementioned graduate thesis took shape as a website exploring the internet fandom around Gone with the Wind and how it has shaped popular memory of slavery and the Civil War. She also presented on “Scrollytelling as a Method for Digital Scholarship” at the National Council on Public History’s annual conference this past April. + +Marshall’s growing body of digital projects have gained acclaim at NYU and beyond. Her graduate thesis alone earned the GSAS Master's Award for Academic Achievement, the Department of History Master’s Award for Academic Achievement, and third place in the Threesis Academic Challenge. ---