Collaboration At Its Finest

In the beginning of this fellowship, the cohort talked about collaboration as being an important value of digital humanities. As the weeks pass by, I feel that our three DSSF fellows (plus a Mellon) have really learned how to collaborate with one another.  Since Christina and I are both researching Gettysburg College Women’s History, it was natural for us to collaborate with one another. Since week one we were bouncing off ideas and sending information and documents to one another. Christina’s project also lines up very nicely with Lauren’s project about social justice movements throughout Gettysburg College history and they have often talked about similar themes seen in their research. Even though Julia’s topic doesn’t revolve around Gettysburg College history, she doesn’t keep her findings to herself. I can tell you that I have never been more knowledgeable in Civil War military history before. We have also been able to collaborate with our supervisors (through both twitter memes and the digital humanities). I am excited to make progress in my research and continue to collaborate with my supervisors and co-workers as the weeks progress.