On September 15, project directors Mark Souther and Meshack Owino introduced “Curating Kisumu: Adapting Mobile Humanities Interpretation in East Africa” to National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) staff and grantees as well as representatives of a number of government agencies, universities, and humanities institutions at the NEH Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) Project Directors Meeting. As recipients […]
Over the past year, the Center collaborated with the the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University on the Judson Oral History Project. Funded by the Unger Family Foundation, the project conducted 36 interviews with residents at Judson Park, a not-for-profit retirement community in Cleveland Heights. John Horan, who has since earned […]
The Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently awarded a $60,000 Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant to Mark Souther, Associate Professor of History and Center for Public History + Digital Humanities Director, and Meshack Owino, Associate Professor of History at Cleveland State University. The grant project, titled Curating Kisumu: Adapting […]
The Center is pleased to announce the newest tour on the Cleveland Historical website and mobile app. Developed with funding from the Cleveland State University Office of the Provost, the new “African Americans” tour emerged from a summer undergraduate research project and fall graduate course directed by Mark Souther. Last summer, Bethany Hollowell, Timothy Klypchak, […]
On September 28, the Ohio Historic Preservation Office awarded its 2013 Public Education & Awareness Award to HistoricShaker.com, a project of the City of Shaker Heights, Shaker Heights Landmark Commission, and Shaker Heights Public Library. In addition to a digital historic building card index that makes it possible to trace the history of this planned […]
Born from the Cleveland Historical mobile app, the Curatescape mobile framework, developed by the Center for Public History + Digital Humanities, offers a budget-friendly, cloud-based, open source solution for publishing location-based content. It enables cultural organizations, preservation groups, or educational institutions to exercise an interpretive voice and reconnect to their communities and audiences. Soon to […]
The Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection passed the 900-interview mark this summer. Using an Engaged Scholarship summer undergraduate research grant from the Cleveland State University Office of the Provost, three students spent May through August working with Dr. Mark Souther and CPHDH to collect oral histories on African American history in Greater Cleveland with a […]
Mark Souther, associate professor of history, was appointed Director of the Center for Public History + Digital Humanities on August 12, 2013. Previously co-director, Souther assumed sole directorship following Mark Tebeau’s departure to become Director of Public History at Arizona State University. Souther and Tebeau co-founded CPHDH in 2008 to focus and coordinate their collaborative […]
In recent years, the volume of resources for doing oral history, much less for exploring digital oral histories has expanded dramatically. The Center often leads community-centered workshops for teachers, communities, and students where we help partners build oral history projects around their interests. Recently, Center Co-Director, Professor Tebeau contributed to the discussions initiated by Michigan State […]
Internationally renowned for his performative public history, Vittorio Marchis is coming to Cleveland to perform an autopsy of a 1940s electrocardiograph machine (ECG), and to discuss technologies for viewing the body, including X-Ray and ECG. Combining performance art with a deep under standing of historical objects, Marchis will look inside the historical machines that have […]
