Past Fellows Projects
Summer 2021
Modalities of Textual Analysis: Large-Scale Natural Language Processing on Spark/Databricks | Fellows: Peixuan (Ancher) Li, Zifeng Liang, Junyan (Johnny) Ou | Mentors: Cliff Anderson, Mark Schoenfield
Telling the Story of Civil War Nashville through Storymaps | Fellow: Jordan Rhym | Mentors: Stacy Curry-Johnson, Brandon Hulette
The Art of Healing | Fellows: Shreya Gupta, Lia Okenkova | Mentor: Brandon Hulette
Spring 2021
The Artist's Workshop in Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Curatorial and Collections Fellowship with the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery | Fellows: Matthew Bartlett, Anna C (Chloe) Davis | Mentors: Kali Mason, Emily Weiner
Books through the Ages: Genre in the Nineteenth Century | Fellows: Josanda Addo, Robby Jordan Espano, Hannah Alex Tsiao | Mentors: Mary Anne Caton, Rachel Lavenda
Gateway to Traditional Chinese Monuments: Data Curation and Web Development for Cultural Heritage Preservation | Fellow: Yuyang (Kathy) Zou | Mentors: Yuh-Fen Benda, Tracy Miller
Misinformation, Social Media, and the Effects on Society | Fellows: Giselle Fiestan, Yuna Jeon, Agneetta Moisio, Sophia Pearl Podolsky, Karen Chen Pu, Marissa Tessier, Kathir Sathi Venkat and Olivia Ann (Livvy) Whitmore | Mentors: Melissa Mallon, Bobby Smiley, Andy Wesolek
From Golden Type to Wild Waves: Fine Press Books in Vanderbilt Special Collections | Fellow: Connor McCain Brown | Mentor: Mary Anne Caton
Modalities of Text Mining: Exploring British Periodicals at Scale | Fellows: TingYan (Nicholas) Deng, Mark Grujic, Desiree Sagayno Hagg, Farouk Haroun, Ali A Hussain, Jiayi (Sunny) Li, Helen Qian, Cassandra Yermack | Mentors: Cliff Anderson, Mark Schoenfield
Telling the Story of Civil War Nashville through Storymaps | Fellows: Alyssa L Bolster, Grant F Bowlds, Jacob Hale, Ao Qu | Mentors: Brandon Hulette, Stacy Curry-Johnson
Fall 2020
Building a University: Vanderbilt’s First Decade, 1875-1885 | Fellows: Tucker Apgood, Donyea James, Joshua Woods, Yisu Yang, Stanley Zhao | Mentors: Mary Anne Caton, Teresa Gray, Kathy Smith
Gateway to Traditional Chinese Monuments: Data Curation and Web Development for Cultural Heritage Preservation | Fellows: Waka Ogihara, Liyan Shen | Mentors: Yuh-Fen Benda, Tracy Miller
Modalities of Text Mining | Fellows: Emma Boldwyn, Shwe Khin, Rohit Khurana, Yuzhe Lu, Erskine Nyoike | Cliff Anderson, Mark Schoenfield
Privacy, Surveillance, and Intellectual Freedom | Fellows: David Cohen, Haylee Hayes, Emily Irigoyen, Induja Kumar, Matthew Sohn, Shannon Yan | Mentors: Melissa Mallon, Andy Wesolek
Summer 2020
The summer fellowship has been cancelled due to Covid-19.
“Now We Can Begin”: Women’s Activism After the Vote | Mentors: Rory Dicker, Mary Anne Caton
Spring 2020
Cursive & Recursive: Generating Transcriptions of Archival Documents Using Machine Learning | Fellows: Sahas Goli, Abrahan Liddell, Michelle Lin, Kai Malcolm, Indraneel Pai, Nilai Vemula, Rachel Wei | Mentors: Nathan Jones, Sarah Swanz
Encoding Music Manuscripts in Vanderbilt University Special Collections | Fellows: Anna Jandura-Cessna, Sara Clements, Cheston Humphreys, Jeremiah Kamtman | Mentors: Dr. Joy H. Calico, Jake Schaub
Ethics of Information | Fellows: Benjamin Bryce, JoJo Dong, Brian Duncan, Giselle Hengst, Chetan Immanneni, Jack Pantlin, Annie Zhou | Mentors: Sarah Burriss, Melissa Mallon, Bobby Smiley, Andy Wesolek
Gateway to Traditional Chinese Monuments: Data Curation and Web Development for Cultural Heritage Preservation | Fellows: Meilan Lu, Qisen Song, and Zheng Sun | Mentors: Yuh-Fen Benda, Dr. Tracy Miller
Netsuke: Gucci of the Edo Period | Fellows: Gawon Lee, Jiayi Hou | Mentors: Yuh-Fen Benda, Professor Gerald Figal, Kali Mason, Emily Weiner
Tending to Popular Thought: What People Read and Why | Fellows: Qingyang Cui, Emma Claire Geitner, Jessica Prus, and Gabrielle Rodgriuez | Mentors: Mary Anne Caton, Rachel Lavenda
Vanderbilt Historical Tree Tour | Fellows: Taylor Hopkins, Alex Ismodes, Yuehao Yang | Mentor: Steve Baskauf
Fall 2019
Strengthening Ties: Cornelius Vanderbilt and the Founding of Vanderbilt University | Fellows: Sterling Akers, Brigitte Jia, Grace LaFrentz, Linh Nguyen, Jacob Schroeder | Mentors: Mary Anne Caton, Celia Walker
The Evolution of the Peabody Esplanade | Fellows: Shrey Derasari, Alice Chen, Varsha Nair, Summer Rucker, Cole Sullivan, Robin Young | Mentors: Steve Baskauf, Stacy Curry-Johnson
Text Mining at Scale | Mentor: Cliff Anderson
2019 Spring
Our Crowd: Student Life at the University of Nashville | Fellows: Sharonda Adams, Eric J Asen | Mentors: Mary Anne Caton, Celia Walker
2018 Fall
Data Visualization and the Humanities | Fellows: Justin DeMello, Rusal Dent | Mentor: Bobby Smiley
The News as It Happened: Journalism in Vanderbilt’s Special Collections | Fellows: Skyler Froese, Jenna Moldavia, and Emma Oliver | Mentors: Kathy Smith, Sara Sterkenburg
2018 Summer
From Listeners to Leaders: A History of Women at Vanderbilt | Fellows: Leah Coffer, Emilie Martinez, Daniel Mativo, Molly Moreau, Brianna Nesbitt, Elizabeth Pearson | Mentors: Rory Dicker, Molly Moreau, and Brianna Nesbitt
2018 Spring
The Power of Propaganda | Fellows: Justine Hong, Jorge Salles Diaz, Mckalee Steen, David Zou | Mentors: Melissa Mallon, Nathan Jones
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) | Fellows: Julie Bones, Mary Catherine Cook, Will Dunham, Rachel Flores, Kerry Shawn, Abbey Labrecque, Akshay Soni | Mentors: Gabriela Ore, Richard Stringer-Hye
2017 Fall
The Once and Future Book | Fellows: Emma Dahill, Mason Eiss, Iksha Patra, Kelly Perry | Mentor: Valerie Hotchkiss
2017 Spring
Helguera Colombiana Exhibition | Fellow: Andrea Delgado | Mentors: Carla Beals, Jodie Gambill, Kathy Smith, Sara Sterkenberg
Helguera Colombiana Exhibition | Fellow: Jessica Fletcher | Mentors: Carla Beals, Jodie Gambill, Kathy Smith, Sara Sterkenberg
Tracing the Movement of Populations | Fellow: Janna Adelstein | Mentors: Carla Beals, Paula Covington, Kathy Smith
Tracing the Movement of Populations | Fellow: Dora Saclarides | Mentors: Carla Beals, Paula Covington, Kathy Smith
Visualizing Cass Gilbert’s Woolworth Building | Fellow: Ellen Dement | Mentors: Mary Anne Caton, Kevin D Murphy
2016 Fall
Augmented Reality Sandbox | Fellow: Christina Wang | Mentors: Lindsey Fox, Richard Stringer-Hye
Helguera Colombiana Collection | Fellow: Jorge Delgadillo | Mentors: Carla Beals, Paula Covington, Kathy Smith
The United States of America vs. Alfried Krupp, et al. | Fellow: Jennifer Alexander | Mentors: Laura Stark
2016 Summer
Creating a Vernacular Archive for the History of Medicine: Science & the Subject’s Perspective | Fellow: Jenifer Dodd | Mentors: Carla Beals, Morgan G Daniels, Pamela J Morgan, Laura Stark, Suellen Stringer-Hye
Mapping Access | Fellow: Tessa A. Eidelman | Mentors: Carla Beals, Lindsey Fox, Aima Hamraie
2016 Spring
The United States of America vs. Alfried Krupp, et al. | Fellow: Jennifer Alexander | Mentors: Laura Stark
Linked Data from the Medieval Middle East | Fellow: Alex Ayris | Mentors: Chris Benda, David Michelson, Suellen Stringer-Hye
Creating a Vernacular Archive for the History of Medicine: Science & the Subject’s Perspective | Fellow: Jenifer Dodd | Mentors: Laura Stark
Qualitative Analysis of Research Practices in Religion | Fellow: Mike Kohut | Mentors: Chris Benda, Bill Hook, Ramona Romero
Manuel Zapata Olivella Collection: The Ethnographic Collection | Fellow: Tiago Fernandes Maranhão | Mentors: Paula Covington, Lesley Gill, Kathy Smith
Manuel Zapata Olivella Collection: The Ethnographic Collection | Fellow: Brad Wright | Mentors: Paula Covington, Lesley Gill, Kathy Smith
Mapping Access | Fellow: Leah Samples | Mentor: Carla Beals, Lindsey Fox, Aimi Hamraie
Wisdom Digitized, Wisdom Multiplied | Fellow: Queen Stevenson | Mentors: Clifford Anderson, Deborah Lilton, Ifeoma Nwankwo
Wisdom Digitized, Wisdom Multiplied | Fellow: Nadejda Webb | Mentors: Clifford Anderson, Deborah Lilton, Ifeoma Nwankwo
2015 Fall
Folding, Printing, Binding, Cutting: Contemporary Artist’s Books Project | Fellow: Haley Brown | Mentors: Carla Beals, Mary Anne Caton
Creating a Vernacular Archive for the History of Medicine: Science & the Subject’s Perspective | Fellow: Jenifer Dodd | Mentors: Carla Beals, Morgan G. Daniels, Pamela J Morgan, Laura Stark, Suellen Stringer-Hye
Honoring the Life of Composer Alfred H. Bartles | Fellow: Brian Entwistle | Mentors: Jacob Schaub, Holling Smith-Borne
2015 Summer
19th Century Broadsides in the Helguera Colombian Collection | Fellow: Emma Banks | Mentors: Carla Beals, Paula Covington, Avery Dickins de Girón, Kathy Smith
Bioimages: a Semantic Web Resource | Fellow: Sean King | Mentor: Suellen Stringer-Hye
Interactive Research Tutorials in the Law Library | Fellow: Cecily Larison | Mentor: Catherine Deana
Responsive Web Design for the Revised Common Lectionary Website | Fellow: Lian Liu | Mentors: Jodie Gambill, Anne Richardson
2015 Spring
The Letters of Flannery O’Connor: A Social Network Analysis | Fellow: Molly Lasagna | Mentor: Suellen Stringer-Hye
Map Digitization Project | Fellow: Gabriela Oré Menéndez | Mentor: Kathy Smith, Richard Stringer-Hye, Ed Warga
Minecraft Project | Fellow: Anjelica Saulsberry | Mentor: Clifford Anderson
Wish You Were Here: Enrico Caruso Postcard Project | Fellow: Danielle Beaujon | Mentor: Mary Anne Caton
2014 Fall
Historical Tour of the University | Fellow: Corey Mackenzie Bowen | Mentor: Kathy Smith
Manuel Zapata Olivella Collections Correspondence | Fellow: Fernanda Bretones Lane | Mentors: Carla Beals, Paula Covington, Kathy Smith
Manuel Zapata Olivella Collections Correspondence | Fellow: Gretchen Selcke | Mentors: Carla Beals, Paula Covington, Kathy Smith
Recording History as It Happened: The Vanderbilt IMPACT Symposium | Fellow: Akailah Jenkins | Mentors: Kathy Smith, Tom Schwartz
Prepare to Practice | Fellow: Xueqing (Ashley) Shan | Mentor: Carolyn Hamilton
Vanderbilt Libraries Special Collections Topics in Wikipedia | Fellow: Nicolette M. Kostiw | Mentor: Cliff Anderson
2013
Helguera Colombian Collection | Fellow: Gloria Clemencia Perez | Mentor: Paula Covington
Historical Tour of the University | Fellow: Robert C.P. Steiner | Mentor: Kathy Smith
Illustrated Editions of Les Fleurs du Mal (1857) by Charles Baudelaire | Fellow: Kevin Patrick Milewski | Mentor: Yvonne Boyer
Vanderbilt Libraries Special Collections Topics in Wikipedia | Fellow: Yun Cha | Mentors: Cliff Anderson, Kathy Smith
Vanderbilt Libraries Website Visual Communications | Fellow: Taylor Elyse Bryant | Mentors: Hilary Craiglow, Dean Connie Dowell
Vanderbilt Television News Archive: Online Exhibit of Presidential Speeches | Fellow: M. Brielle Harbin | Mentors: Jody Combs, Carla Beals
2012 Spring
Photojournalist Jack Corn Collection | Fellow: Emily Carlton Cook | Mentor: Celia Walker