DSSRF 2017 Cohort: (from left to right): Justin Guzman, Rennie Heza, Tyler Candelora, Minglu Xu
Learn more about the 2017 cohort by reading their biographies and digital humanities values statement below.
Tyler Candelora ’19
Tyler Candelora, a native of the central Pennsylvania Coal Region, is a sophomore at Bucknell University. He is expected to graduate in May 2019 with a B.A. degree in Comparative Humanities and Spanish, including minors in Translation Studies and French.
During the summer of 2016, Tyler was selected for the Emerging Scholars Program at Bucknell University; he conducted research on the cultural significances of Shamokin and Coal Township by analyzing ten monuments. As a result, he created an interactive map of the monuments using the geo-spatial plugin Neatline. Furthermore, Tyler has continued to work with the Coal Collections research team, recently investigating the various immigrant groups in the anthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania.
Currently, during the summer of 2017, Tyler is a research fellow of the Digital Pedagogy Center at Bucknell University. He is researching representations of coal miners throughout the Coal Region (and possibly Chile’s coal mining districts) by analyzing monuments, literature, photography, and other mediums. Using digital humanities tools, Tyler intends to create a network of digital maps that illustrates the monuments and an archive of the collected metadata.
Final Project: Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Miners: Self-Representation and Memorialization
Justin Guzman ’19
Justin Guzman is a rising Junior majoring in Film & Media Studies. He lives in Brooklyn, New York and is of Latinx descent. He currently works as a videographer, photographer, and graphic designer for Bucknell organizations such as Uptown and ACE (Activities & Campus Events). He also writes and directs his own short films and collaborates with other artists on music videos and photoshoots. This summer, Justin will be looking at how different elements of film-making contribute to social change by studying specific time periods of mass social activism and films that were released or screenplays that were written during those times. He will be looking at specific films and screenplays that may have aided social movements or opposed them and determining if film making can be categorized as something more than entertainment.
Final Project: LGBTQ+ Representation in Cinema
Rennie Heza ’18
Rennie Heza is a rising senior at Bucknell University, with a major in Applied Mathematics and a minor in Russian Language. This summer, Rennie will be conducting performance analysis of NHL teams during the 2016-17 regular season, focussing on ties between team performance and managerial decisions. Rennie is the team statistician for Bucknell’s Women’s Volleyball Team, and a recreational volleyball player himself. Rennie’s other passions include traveling, watching baseball, and reading.
Final Project: Behind Hockey’s Stars: A Statistical Analysis of Critical Hockey Team Metrics
Minglu Xu ’20
Xu Minglu is a rising sophomore at Bucknell University, majoring in Economics and possibly minoring in Mathematics and Philosophy. Her project this summer will touch upon the increased internet use in China over the past few decades and going forward, what these changes may imply for businesses, the government, and the general public in the country. She will also explore how these changes have impacted various rural and urban areas in China in different ways, and the consequences of these differences.
Final Project: China's Internet Wave
DSSRF 2017 Values Statement
As Digital Scholarship summer fellows, we will conduct meaningful investigations, while collaborating with one another to inform, critique, and help achieve impactful digital research.
Throughout the summer, aside from our independent research areas, we will work together to discuss each other’s projects. It is imperative that we critique each work, creating a high standard of intellectual rigor and mastering of digital platforms. We will critique the accessibility of data for those not involved with a certain researcher’s particular discipline. We will commit to understanding each other’s different projects and help one another – whether it be finding articles, teaching digital platforms, or experimenting with one’s data sets. Through this collaborative effort, we will each achieve a successful Digital Scholarship project.
Over the course of the summer we will work to gain new understandings of the different academic fields in which we are working, in order to teach and learn from our research and share it on to one another. Our work must be original, meaningful, and impactful in order to defend the field of Digital Scholarship.
We will work to understand Digital Scholarship from all angles. Collaboration, research into similar projects, and readings will allow our perception and knowledge of Digital Scholarship to develop further as we progress. By making an effort to work simultaneously in the same space, we will support one another’s projects and share the progress we have made over the eight weeks. We see Digital Scholarship as an area with tremendous growth potential, and our deepest understanding of Digital Scholarship is key to having a solid foundation for this growth.
We also aim to understand more about the digital tools available, and choose specific platforms that are most corroborative and relevant given our individual research projects.
We will fail. We will reject that failure carries negative connotations. We will succeed. We will disagree, and we will become stronger as a group because of this. We will gain knowledge in areas in which we have never before dabbled. Life is richest when we become good at many things, and there is no doubt our lives will be enriched through this program.