Aging-in-place and elderly care in Troy, NY (2006-2008); Coal disasters and air quality in East Tennessee (2009); multi-sited study of asthma care (2009-2017); perceptions of environmental governance in Philadelphia, including climate change (2013-2019); energy vulnerability and just transitions in the US mid atlantic (2017-ongoing)
I've done some stuff...
I started working on websites in 2004, with html, Dreamweaver, and Adobe Design tools. For my master’s thesis, I wrote, built, and archived a 100+ page website focused on the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. I have also created and admined nearly a dozen wordpress sites since 2006 and used wikispaces for research from 2006-2013. Additionally, I was a content manager for Cultural Anthropology’s drupal-based site from 2007-2013 and led their website redesign project (2011-2013). I have been a PECE superuser since it launched – especially TAF and my own platform, but I also contribute to DSTS, STSI, and WorldPECE. This last year I have begun to shift my time and energy to Notion, moving my writing, teaching, and personal archive to this platform. I also lead Notion tutorials.
I also use Canva a ton; it's probably the third most important platform for our research team. And of course lets not forget social media platforms...
Social media use; interest in creating and curating archives; my identity as an artist and storyteller; my negative experiences with the IRB, specifically being asked to use protocols designed for medical research; the hegemony of quantitative research fields and positivist disciplines; the data needs of community organizations, community members, and nonprofits – although I think as researchers we often make assumptions about what these desires, needs, and capacities are, and how we can respond.
Tim's stuff...
Beyond PECE, I don’t really spend my time using and engaging with digital archives or exhibits. Occasionally some art museum sites. At this stage, I try to spend as little time in front of a screen as possible. And when I am in front of a screen, I want to make archives. If there was, like, a weeklong intensive somewhere in the world where I could attend and spend a week reviewing archives, I’d for sure go. But I don’t do it independently. I could also imagine, if there were a list of archives to review, and a schedule, and a community of people to review the archives with... I’d have a 60/40 chance of attending.
It’s more opinion than vision….