Welcome!
This website was created to encourage public academic scholarship in art history in partnership with my digital art history course in the Fall 2026 semester. It primarily serves as a blog space for class assignments, but has recently been expanded to also serve as a digital work-in-progress for the projects that I am currently working on. Because of this, it will receive periodic updates to the user interface and design in addition to my weekly blog posts. All links are active as of September 2026.
The blog will continue to be updated according to class assignments until early December 2026, at which it its category (ARTH 851: alt-Methods) will be archived. It will remain visible to the public.
Latest Blog Posts
- Obverse and Reverse: A Network Analysis of the Roman Coins of the Two Faustinas, ca. 138-180 CE (Bonus!)13 October 2026 Designed by researchers at Stanford University, Palladio allows users to visualize their data through spatial maps or network analysis with just a CSV. Since we have already worked with spatial data in this course, I focused on the network analysis tool in Palladio to enormous success. I elected to upload a pre-existing… Read more: Obverse and Reverse: A Network Analysis of the Roman Coins of the Two Faustinas, ca. 138-180 CE (Bonus!)
- “Upstream Annotations” and Data Standardization: Strengthening the Foundation of IIIF Image Annotations4 October 2026 For this week’s blog post I decided to dig into Matthew J. Westerby’s “Annotating Upstream: Digital Scholars, Art History, and the Interoperable Image” (2024). Westerby is the Digital Research Officer at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.). He works predominately in digital… Read more: “Upstream Annotations” and Data Standardization: Strengthening the Foundation of IIIF Image Annotations
- Third & Fourth Style Pompeian Wall Painting: A Spatial Analysis Using Google My Maps (Bonus!)2 October 2026 Bonus post! As part of our unit on spatial data our class was tasked with creating our own maps in Google My Maps. I was originally going to use the map I started last week on Pierre-Jacques Volaire’s paintings of Vesuvius, but I realized that my project didn’t warrant spatial analysis on… Read more: Third & Fourth Style Pompeian Wall Painting: A Spatial Analysis Using Google My Maps (Bonus!)
- Spatial Data: the Ole Faithful of Digital Humanities Projects27 September 2026 This week we turned our attention in class towards a specific type of data: spatial data. I was already incredibly familiar with spatial data and its myriad of uses in the humanities because I have a minor in geographic information systems (GIS) from undergrad. I also currently work as a library data… Read more: Spatial Data: the Ole Faithful of Digital Humanities Projects
- Let’s Talk About Data Inequities: the Mapping Senufo Project20 September 2026 Data can be hard. It’s tedious to collect and oftentimes difficult to work with, existing only as numbers or text strings that seemingly have no true meaning. One mishap in the data-collecting process can spell disaster for the project overall, leading to errors and readability issues. For this week’s blog post, I… Read more: Let’s Talk About Data Inequities: the Mapping Senufo Project
