About
"Constructing a Culture" was created by four graduate students enrolled in Professor Roshanna Sylvester's "Doing Digital History" course at DePaul University (HST 438 & DHS 460).
Using the course theme: "How to be Popular?" as our guide, each contributor selected and researched one primary-source piece of media. After composing an essay detailing our source in context, and adding our media to an Omeka site, our final project is to create a Scalar site.
METHODS:
Each contributor was responsible for research on his or her own primary-source material. After brainstorming the theme for Scalar, students worked individually, yet collaboratively to develop the website.
GRADUATE STUDENT BACKGROUND:
Micah Ariel
Jessica Martinez
Vince Sandri
Vince is a Masters in History student that focused on educational philosophy during the Cold War through analysis of the educational film "Freedom to Learn," the review for this film printed in Educational Screen: The Audio-Visual Magazine, and additional secondary sources. His contributions to this project include descriptions of these two primary sources as well as the context essays for the Life Adjustment Movement and McCarthyism in Education pages.
Maureen Kudlik
Masters of English Literature and Digital Humanities Graduate student. Maureen focused on the rise of teenagers in photojournalist Nina Leen's photo-essay, "Tulsa Twins: They Show how much the Teen-age World has Changed". Exploration and promotion of conformity through uniformity in fashion and gender roles is discussed.