Hello All,

I’m a first-year in History, and have a Masters in Latin American Studies from UofI Urbana-Champaign.  My background is in anthropology (ethnography) and I have done research in southern Brazil. Here at Pitt, however, I’ve shifted to history and archival research, and am currently working with the gay rights movement in Brazil during the military dictatorship (1964-85). My data now is coming from digitized newspapers, especially Lampião da Esquina – the first monthly publication with a national distribution by and for a gay audience.

From this course I am hoping to gain vocabulary and praxis. Until now, “the digital” has been a peripheral conversation in my courses, and I am excited to tackle it head on as the subject of study. I found Lara Putnam’s article from this past week most interesting and am looking forward to thinking about the implications of digitization for research and teaching in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

See you soon,

Jim