Surveillance, Security, and Privacy, Part 1: The Ethics of Surveillance
In an age of open access, widely available public information, and instantaneous search results, the ethics of surveillance and privacy are becoming a pressing topic with which researchers must...
View ArticleSurveillance, Security, and Privacy, Part 2: When Trolls Come Knocking
It started as a niggling thought in the back of my mind…but it has since grown to a scale at which I can see the train wreck coming. Increasingly for women, people of color, LGBTQIA, and...
View ArticleReflection of The Camino de Santiago Part 1
For ten days, my lab partner and I embarked on a spiritual pilgrimage known as the Camino de Santiago. Before heading to Spain, my partner and I had been researching the relationship...
View ArticleReflection of The Camino de Santiago Part 2
We got up at around 7 am, then walked for about 15-20 miles, handed out surveys along the way, found our stay and a place to eat in the next town, then repeated each step for the next day. Sounds easy...
View ArticleParkinson’s Disease And The Connection with Alzheimer’s
When I had interviewed with Matt Farrer in March my first impression was that he was just as impressive as his work. Dr. Farrer is a Parkinson’s disease researcher. In the last few weeks speaking with...
View ArticleFinding Meaning in Choreography
The finale of Orchesis’ Evening of Dance was composed of four sections, which, altogether, chronicled the trajectory of global technological innovation. Choreographic phrases reflected degrees of...
View ArticleEnglish Archives and the Allen Family of Bacon’s Castle: Seeking Answers,...
This July, with generous funding from a Charles Center Summer Research Grant and additional support from other William & Mary sources,[1] I traveled to the United Kingdom to undertake archival and...
View ArticleBeing Present to Explore the Past
Standing on the smooth stones of Ballycastle beach in Co. Antrim. The sea spray makes the colors incredibly vivid. (Photo by the author) Following my first SuRGe blog entry about the goals and content...
View ArticleReweaving the Past: Revisiting the Social Nature of Textile Trade Networks...
Detail of a seventeenth-century maison-usine in Villebourbon The year is 1754. A dyer’s apprentice attempts to make his way down la Grand Rue of Villebourbon, on the left side of the Tarn River, across...
View ArticleFollowing the Leads
Toulouse La mendiante à la sébille. Jacques Callot, 1723. BnF Gallica. Though I arrived in Paris, I was there only long enough to catch the TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse) south to Toulouse, a six hour...
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