Projects

Through forums, panels, lectures and other programming developed in cooperation with students, faculty, and staff, the Days-Massolo Center (DMC) serve as a central resource for exploring intersections between gender, race, culture, religion, sexuality, ability, socioeconomic class, and other facets of human difference. Members of the Digital Scholarship Collaborative (DiSC) and Research & Instructional Design (R&ID) teams are supporting the development of a digital archive of event posters and videos from ten years of work at the Days-Massolo Center. The archive will serve as a testament to the impact the Days-Massolo Center has had on campus in its 10 years of service, as well as the work that has been done in this area at Hamilton College before the official existence of the DMC.

In partnership with the Digital Scholarship Collaborative (DiSC) team, Natalie Nannas, Assistant Professor of Biology, will pilot the use of electronic lab notebooks (ELN) to facilitate the collection, organization, management, and dissemination of data in a way that will ensure short- and long-term access to student and faculty research. This system is intended to supplement or replace the traditional paper lab notebooks currently used in her lab and others across Hamilton. Using a combination of hardware and software solutions, Professor Nannas and the DiSC team will trial an ELN with a group of highly collaborative student researchers, focusing on how digital techniques typically adopted by large research universities can thrive on the campus of a small liberal arts college.

An online database that provides students and researchers with updated archaeological and art-historical information on Indian Buddhist monastic sites with a special focus on the ones founded or continued after the Gupta period (ca. 320-550 CE).

The Off-Campus Study Storytelling Project and Archive started with a cohort of Hamilton students who had recently returned from their study abroad and/or off-campus study experience in the fall of 2019. Working closely with Madeleine LaCotera, Associate Director of Global Learning, these students launched a project that creates a space for reflection, an opportunity to share advice to students preparing for their own experiences, and a hands-on learning opportunity to develop and strengthen digital skills. Each year a new cohort is invited to participate in this ongoing storytelling project in an effort to highlight a diverse group of student voices and their study abroad and off-campus study experiences. These stories invite viewers to imagine and build their own future international or domestic experience and to be ready to be changed in ways that promote intellectual growth, flexibility, and collaboration.

The project entails a study of Indian sacred centers - Buddhist Bodhgaya and Hindu Gaya. Through a study of textual, archaeological, and art-historical remains, the project examines the emergence, multi-phase (re-) constructions, and reformulations of both these important centers and their intertwined histories.