By Andris Straumanis, George Mason University Coming into downtown Rīga, Latvia, across the Stone Bridge (Akmens tilts), it’s hard not to notice the dark rectangle that is the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia. The museum, which in Latvian has the much simpler name Okupācijas muzejs, captures and presents the history of the country from 1940-1991.[…]
By Mary Ellen Pethel, Ph.D. Harpeth Hall School, History Department Chair, Digital Humanities Coordinator Belmont University, Honors Department Adjunct, Global Leadership Studies Fellow Over the last three weeks I began working in earnest on the Georeferenced Cultural Repository Inventory as an online intern for the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative. This internship satisfies the semester requirement[…]
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By Christina Fossa, Boston University My name is Christina Fossa and I am a Virtual Student Federal Services (VSFS) intern for the academic year of 2017-2018. As a VSFS intern, I am currently working together on the Conflict Culture Research Network Georeferenced Site Damage Dataset (CCRN-GSDD). The purpose of this dataset is to record news[…]
By Natalie Edwards, Washington University in St. Louis My name is Natalie Edwards, and I am a Virtual Student Federal Service (VSFS) intern, working with the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative for the 2017-18 school year. Recently, I have been working with three other VSFS interns to create an inventory of cultural heritage sites damage in[…]
By Alison Curry, George Mason University This is my second semester interning for the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative. In my first semester, myself and the other interns from George Mason worked on cataloguing museums in the Caribbean. Due to the major hurricanes that hit the region in the early fall, many museums were at risk[…]
By Grace Kellet, Northeastern University My name is Grace Kellett and I am a Virtual Student Federal Service intern conducting research at the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative. When my fellow VSFS interns and I began in September this year, we were given the initial task of checking and refining data collected about sites for the[…]
By Kelley Tackett, Brown University As an intern for the Virtual Student Federal Service, working with the Smithsonian Cutural Rescue Initiative for the school year of 2017-18, I have had the opportunity to research in detail sites of cultural significance in Syria and compile data for the ongoing protection of cultural heritage in the region.[…]
Jenna Rinalducci, George Mason University As part of George Mason University’s graduate certificate in Digital Public Humanities, I am currently working as a virtual intern for the Smithsonian Institution’s Cultural Heritage Rescue Initiative. I am also the Arts & Architecture Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and until last year I served[…]
By Katie O’Hara, Smith College My name is Katie O’Hara and I am senior at Smith College working Virtual Student Federal Service Internship with the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative. I am double majoring in Art History with a concentration in Museum Studies and History with a focus in Medieval History. I am completing my honors[…]
By Charlotte Watiez, George Washington University My name is Charlotte Watiez and I am currently a Virtual Student Federal Services intern, working with the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative for the 2017-2018 academic year. Since early September, I have been able to work on the Syrian Cultural Heritage Inventory. Each intern was assigned a data set[…]