Posts by Colleen Nugent
Interview with Libby Collard and Odile Jordan from Mapping Black London
Libby Collard and Odile Jordan are both Research Assistants for Mapping Black London and PhD students in History at Northeastern University London. Libby and Odile spoke with Colleen Nugent McLean, CDS Coordinator, about their work with Mapping Black London, how their personal scholarship has been shaped by the experience, and the public responsibility of making…
Read MoreCelebrating Ten Years of the Digital Transgender Archive!
The CDS is delighted to share the news of the official ten year anniversary of the DTA’s launch! Congratulations to the DTA on celebrating a decade of trans visibility, accessibility, and storytelling. For more information about the project and the milestones reached over the past ten years, head to their website to find the DTA…
Read MoreInterview with Cara Hullings and Hailey Punis from the Digital Archive of Indigenous Language Persistence (DAILP)
Cara Hullings is the project coordinator for DAILP. Hailey Punis is an undergraduate English major with a minor in Writing and Art. They both work for the Digital Archive of Indigenous Language Persistence (DAILP). Cara and Hailey spoke with Colleen Nugent McLean, CDS Coordinator, about their work with DAILP and how community care is central…
Read MoreLeveraging Media History to Improve Modern Journalism
We were delighted to host the Center for Transformative Media’s event “Leveraging Media History to Improve Modern Journalism” in our large presentation space! The event featured a conversation between Molly Brown, the Reference and Outreach Archivist at Northeastern, and Andre Stark, an Emmy-winning writer, director, and producer and co-owner of The Bay State Banner, moderated…
Read MoreInterview with the Digital Transgender Archive’s Boston Lab Lead, Faith Maldonado
Faith Maldonado is a second year PhD student in the English department on the literature track. She is also the Lab Lead for Boston’s Digital Transgender Archive lab. She is broadly interested in gender, and her research interests are in gender and sexuality within post-colonial and semi-colonial literature. Faith spoke with Colleen Nugent McLean, CDS…
Read MoreLessons Learned in Collaborative Research: a ReXPO Workshop
As part of the Digital Practice Workshop Series co-sponsored by the Centers for Digital Scholarship and the Humanities Center, we were delighted to host Andrew Henson and Peter Fan for their event “Lessons Learned in Collaborative Research: a ReXPO Workshop.” Taking place on Tuesday, October 21, 2025 in our Critical Making Lab, the event highlighted…
Read MoreDH Open Office Hours: Halima Haruna
We were delighted to host the Digital Scholarship Group’s DH Open Office Hours works in progress talk with Halima Haruna, a PhD Student in Northeastern’s History Department and Boston Research Center Research Associate on October 7, 2025! Halima discussed the current state of her dissertation research, which focuses on pensions claims made by African-American Civil…
Read MoreIntroduction to AirTable Workshop
On Wednesday September 24, 2025, DSG Data Engineer Joel Lee led an introductory workshop on AirTable, a database-spreadsheet hybrid. AirTable is software that allows you to represent relational databases. According to Joel, AirTable is a database application that looks like a spreadsheet. Since databases can be more inaccessible to non-tech people, AirTable has the functionality…
Read MoreDH Open Office Hours: Boston Research Center
On Wednesday September 17, 2025, the Digital Scholarship Group hosted a DH Open Office Hours event on the current state of the Boston Research Center (BRC) in the presentation space within the Centers for Digital Scholarship. Caitlin Pollock, the DSG Associate Director, and Tieanna Graphenreed, the Community History and Digitization Specialist at the Boston Public…
Read MoreDigital Practice Workshop Series: Metadata
On July 15, 2025, the Centers for Digital Scholarship (CDS) and the Humanities Center jointly hosted the first workshop in the Digital Practice Workshop Series. This workshop was focused on metadata and ethical considerations of metadata. Led by Shireen Zaineb, the Humanities Center Digital Project Archivist, and Colleen Nugent McLean, the Centers for Digital Scholarship…
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