Course Projects

ENGL84031 / HISTGU4031 / COMS4495: Transforming Texts (Spring 2019)

The Spring 2019 course Transforming Texts: Textual Analysis, Literary Modeling, and Visualization built upon M&K’s previous Digital and Lab Seminars. Geared towards students from the humanities and computer science, the course encouraged the disciplines to work together to analyze, explore, and understand historical texts.

Spring 2019 Final Student Projects (2021-05-06)

[Syllabus]

• Ontologies of Ms. Fr. 640 by Celine Camps
• “A View Inside a Messy Workshop”: Unraveling the Possibilities of Textual Analysis with Optical Character Recognition by Katherine Bergen
• Material Qualities of the Page: A New Interface for the Digital Critical Edition by Sandra Goldstein Lehnert, Laura Elizabeth Hand, and Greg Alton Houser
• Indexing Ingredients: Using Ingredients to Navigate Making by Jennifer Kaplan, Chris Klippenstein, Matthew Kumar, and Vera Senina
• Chromatic Index by Guillermo Soto, Clement Godbarge, and Yuhe Zheng. See also:
  • PDF of PowerPoint presentation, video (TBD), code (TBD)
• Augmented Reality Group (ARGroup) by Mahzabin Hasnath, Kathleen Lee, and Taewan Shim. See also:
  • PowerPoint presentation [PDF] [PPTX]

GU4962: Hands-on History (2021- )

The Final Project in the undergraduate/graduate lab seminar Making and Knowing in Early Modern Europe: Hands-on History are intended to serve as companion pieces to the Digital Critical Edition, Secrets of Craft and Nature, or form a part of the Making and Knowing Project’s Research and Teaching Companion to Secrets of Craft and Nature. These exploratory and experimental projects are meant to help brainstorm, design, and implement alternative paths by which to access the material in the Edition and/or provide other forms of disseminating and engaging with the themes.

Summer 2021 Final Student Projects (2021-07-08)

[Syllabus]

• Cures in Context: Medicine in Ms. Fr. 640 and Household Recipe Books by Elizabeth Branscum
• Was Ms. Fr. 640 Intentionally Disorganized? by Mackenzie Fox
• Pictures Worth 1,000 Words: Figures and their Uses in Ms. Fr. 640 by Sophie Macomber
• Understanding Natural Things in the World and the Workshop by Anna Christensen
• Foraging for Pigments: A Making and Knowing Project by Mellon Snyder [PDF], [PPTX]

Fall 2021 Final Student Projects (2022-01-27)

[Syllabus]

• Transcribing, Translating, and Encoding MS Gen, 262: Sefer Refu’os u-Segulos / Book of Remedies and Incantations by Charlie Steinman
  • See also the Github repo dedicated to this project ms-262-data
• Oral Culture in Ms. Fr. 640 by Hana Ghoneima
• The Color Red in Ms. Fr. 640 by Allie Coutavas
• Textual Analysis of Instances of “To Know” in Ms. Fr. 640 by Beah Jacobson
• Regimens, Recipes, and Remedies: Understanding the ‘Cosmetic’ in Early Modern Europe by Danli Lin and Anusha Sundar
• The Making and Meaning of Intermediates: Workshop and Syllabus for Students of Architecture by Benjamin Weisgall
• The Natural History of Ms. Fr. 640: A Visual Exploration by Eleanor Davol
• Instructor Assignment Sheet: Ms. Fr. 640 fol. 43v, “Varied and Transmuted Wine” by Naomi Alberts
• Global Ingredients: The Diverse Origins of Natural Materials in Ms. Fr. 640 (Omeka exhibit with gallery and map) by Elia Zhang and Helena Seo
• An Exploration of Humor in Ms. Fr. 640 by Charlotte Atkins and Siobhan Joyce-Farley
  • See their VIDEO: Funniest Pranks of the 16th Century
• The Soundscape of Process: An Audio Recreation of Lifecasting in the Workshop by Elliot Zayas and Mac Waters
  • Listen to Soundscape 1: Creating the Mold
  • Listen to Soundscape 2: Casting the Metal
  • Listen to Soundscape 3: Recovering the Final Product

Spring 2022 Final Student Projects (2022-08-15)

[Syllabus]

• Herodotus’ ‘Workshop’: A Core (Curriculum) Pathway into Ms. Fr. 640 and its Author-Practitioner by Alejandra Quintana Arocho
• Discarded Cartographies: Orienting Process Through Waste by Maciej Dzumala
• Counterproofing: Reproduction and Theft in Early Modern Print Culture by Theodora Bocanegra Lang
• Making and Knowing Pop-up Book by Luxi Yang and Jianing Wei
• Animal Rationality in Ms. Fr. 640 by Victoria Nebolsin
• Cuttlefish in and around Ms. Fr. 640 by Maia Donald
• Creating a “Modern” Reconstruction of a Miniature Grotto by Jamie Bergen and Sofia Sabet
• Sieves in Ms. Fr. 640 by Schuyler Gardner

Spring 2023 Final Student Projects (2024-01-08)

[Syllabus]

• “Flesh Color” and Race Making in Early Modern Painters’ Manuals by Ruilin Fan
• Languages and Linguistic Agency in Ms. Fr. 640 by Gilles Narcy
• Medieval Spirituality and Materiality in Ms. Fr. 640 by Avery Lambert
• Kunstkamer: Women at Work by Sophie Gorup [PDF], [PPTX]
• Candles: Making and Breaking Boundaries in Early Modern Jewish and Christian Ritual by Nesya Nelkin
• Puffball Mushrooms and Early Modern Race-Making: A Skin-Whitening Recipe in BnF Ms. Fr. 640 by Sumant Rao
• European Paintbrushes and Chinese Ink Brushes in the Early Modern World by Jingxian Shi
• Dyeing Textiles with Cochineal - A Workshop by Reece Brown
• Varnishing, a Craft of Closure by Lukas Oberem

Making Colors!

• Dyeing with Onion Skins by Annika Cunningham (2022-07-18)
• Making Pigment from Madder: a Trio of Recipes by Naomi Rosenkranz and Charlotte Atkins (2022-07-19)
• Materials Used for Making Renaissance Dyes and Pigments by Naomi Rosenkranz and Megan Lennon (2023-02-28)