by Miguel Giron | Feb 12, 2025 | Blog, Featured Post, guest post, Uncategorized
What inspires you to work in digital humanities and how did you get started? As a transborder scholar studying gender identities and violence at the U.S.-Mexico border through literature and archival research, I have found in the digital humanities a powerful tool for... 
by Miguel Giron | Jan 10, 2025 | Blog, Featured Post, guest post, Uncategorized
On a late autumn night during my senior year in college, I was hunkered down in my dorm room, hard at work researching for my history thesis…by watching a movie. For my project, I was studying 1970s-1980s Asian American Seattle, and attempting to understand the... by Miguel Giron | Dec 2, 2024 | Blog, Featured Post, guest post, Uncategorized
What inspires your work in digital humanities? I believe that if Indigenous Alaskan elders consent for their stories to be told in the digital format, that we should amplify their voices for audiences both inside and beyond Alaska. Frequently in the Western archives,... 
by Miguel Giron | Nov 14, 2024 | Blog, Featured Post, guest post, Uncategorized
While not easy to imagine considering its contemporary persona of sunshine and tourism, the present area of downtown Miami once held a plantation using enslaved labor. Records of the estate and its people are extremely scarce, and little is known of the workers who... by Miguel Giron | Oct 10, 2024 | Blog, Featured Post, guest post, Uncategorized
What inspires you to work in digital humanities and how did you get started? My interest in the digital humanities began during my grad school course work at Saint Louis University. In one course, I had to research a digital tool and give a short presentation. I chose... 
by Miguel Giron | Sep 3, 2024 | Blog, Featured Post, guest post, Uncategorized
The cross-pollination of immigration history and race studies that began to assert itself in the 1990s remains an extremely fertile field of research. Recent events—the rise of Black Lives Matter, the racial dynamics of the Trump movement, and debates surrounding...