Past Fondren Fellows Projects

Summer 2024 Projects

1. Descriptive Enhancement of the Digitized Rice Family Papers
2. Investigating the Historical Black Community of Snipe, TX through Archival Research
3. Pilot for Large Scale Analysis of the Impossible: Ethical Research Model Planning for Highly Sensitive Data
4. Understanding data practices in the Soil Sciences in relation to emerging federal Public Access requirements

5. Milestones in Science: 50 years of Natural Sciences at Rice

    

Fall 2023-Spring 2024 Projects

1. Finding and Mapping Archival Images from Historical Plantations of Brazoria County
2. Great Impressions: Creating a Profile for the Book Arts at Rice
3. Investigating the Relationship between University Music Libraries and Music Publishers Since the Advent of Digital Content and Delivery
4. Mapping Hispanic Early Modern Theater in Latin America
5. Rice Media Center film and video archive project 2.0
6. Ricketts and Shannon's Queer Artistic World
7. The Red Book of Houston
8. Black Houston(s) Symposium Fellow
9. Exploring Generative AI Media Tools for Academic Use
10. Enhancing Python Workshops with Effective Teaching Strategies
11. Energy and Climate Policy Credibility Index
12. Visualizing Catastrophe in Latin America and the Caribbean: Mapping the Photographical Archive of Natural Disasters
13. Design, Development, and Delivery of Workshops about the fundamentals of Generative AI
14. The Desenberg Political Button Collection
15. Campus Comics: Producing the Inaugural Issue of a Rice Comics Anthology
16. Get the word out! Developing a sustainable approach to institutional repository marketing and outreach
17. Enhancing the ILL/Resource Sharing experience for Undergraduate Students
18. Brave New Worlds: the Huxleys
19. 50 years of Rice Design Alliance (1972-2023)
20. Voices of Mathematics; Oral Histories as a path to understanding

Fall 2022-Spring 2023 Projects

1. Topic Database Creation Over the Rice Thresher   
2. Design, Development, and Delivery of Python Workshops 
3. Post-Covid Corporate Stakeholder Engagement and Social Advocacy     
4. Fondren Library Data Repository for Data Science Education and Experiential Learning, Phase I 
5. Houston Highways 
6. Visualizing Catastrophe in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Interactive Map of Photography and Natural Disasters
7. Mapping TIMEA
8. The President’s Scientists: Understanding the Evolving Role of White House Science Advisors
9. Mapping Hispanic Early Modern Theater in the US
10. Blood Will Tell?: Genetics and Madness
11. Listening to our users: Centering DEI in Library Publishing Services
12. History of Japanese Farmers in Texas
13. OUT OF THE GUTTER: cataloging a new collection of international comic art at Rice University
14.  Building Capacities for Systematic and Qualitative Analysis in the Social Media Archive
15. Developing Houston Hip Hop Archives
16. Where Is Texas on the SlaveVoyages Website? Reconstructing the Coastwise Traffic to the
    Lone Star State in the Nineteenth Century

Fall 2021-Spring 2022 Fondren Fellows Projects

1. Oral History Interviews and Archival Processing for the Task Force on Slavery, Segregation, and Racial Injustice
   This project will employ two students to conduct interviews for the Task Force, under the guidance of Dr. Alex Byrd and Dr. Caleb McDaniel. The students will also work with WRC staff to finalize consent forms, gather interview elements, create accessible PDFs of polished transcripts, and index interviews for online access.
   
   Fellows: Calista I. Ukeh and Katie Nguyen
   Mentors: Alex Byrd and Caleb McDaniel

2. The Sugar Land 95: Mapping Convict Leasing in Fort Bend County, 1865- 2018: A Continuation of the 2020-2021 Project
   This project will employ a student to continue in the development of a story map on the Sugar Land 95 (95 African American people whose bodies were discovered at the site of a former prison farm) and the Imperial Prison Farm. The fellow will evaluate archival materials across various archives, and use ArcGIS to visualize the social, economic and cultural landscapes of Fort Bend County and the Imperial Prison Farm during the late 19th to mid-twentieth century.
   
   Fellow: Juliana Phan
   Mentor: Portia Hopkins

3. “Mapping the Reservation: Houston’s Red-Light District, 1908-1917”
   This proposal builds on a successful prior Fondren Fellow’s ARCGIS work in 2019-2020. The new scope of work will build the basic interface to visualize real estate data in the Reservation by race over time.
   
   Fellow: Grace Kneidel
   Mentor: Brian Riedel

4. Changing the Subject at Fondren Library
   Changing the Subject at Fondren Library is a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) project to investigate updating the Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH) “Illegal aliens” in the Fondren Library catalog.
   
   Fellow: Maria Alejandra Mora
   Mentor: Jeanette Sewall

5. Enhancing the Fondren Fellows Program
   In this meta-project, the Fellow will focus on the Fondren Fellows program itself, examining how to enhance its communications, assessment methods, and support for fellows and mentors. Based on that analysis, the Fellow will develop events, communication templates, guides, and other resources. The Fellow will also write a report synthesizing recommendations.
   
   Fellow: Sydney Hicks
   Mentor: Lisa Spiro

6. Making Sense of Government Education Resources
   This project demonstrates how to utilize education statistics, reports, regulations, and other legislative materials and policies from free official U.S. federal and state government and international databases, and related Fondren Library subscribed commercial databases for searching government documents. Education professionals and the scholarly community will be able to efficiently obtain the necessary data for their research, program management, teaching, and decision-making.
   
   Fellow: Madison Prause
   Mentors: Anna Xiong and Erin Baumgartner

7. Translational Humanities for Public Health
   Translational Humanities for Public Health is a database that highlights a broad range of humanities-based responses to the COVID-19 pandemic from around the world, and enables scholars and students to explore and visualize the pathways from humanities classrooms and research to applied interventions in response to human health crises. A Fondren Fellow will help to interview researchers from around the world for the website; help design new pathways for exploring the data; and help identify new contacts who can contribute to the project worldwide.
   
   Fellows: Arnav Sankaranthi and Surabhi Madadi
   Mentor: Kirsten Ostherr
8. Where Is Texas on the SlaveVoyages Website? Reconstructing the Coastwise Traffic to the Lone Star State in the Nineteenth Century
   This project reconstructs the nineteenth century coastwise slave trade to Texas through a database made from manifests and newspaper sources. These data will be uploaded to the Intra-American Slave Trade Database, on SlaveVoyages.org, the world’s premier repository for data on slaving voyages across the Atlantic and within the Americas.
   
   Fellows: Katelyn Landry, James Myers (project manager), Victoria Zabarte, and Ben Schachter
   Mentors: Daniel B. Domingues da Silva and Molly Morgan
9. Research by Members of the Racial Geography Project
   This project concerns four investigations being conducted by members of theRacial Geography Project (RGP), an initiative of the Research and Teaching  Working Group of the Task Force on Slavery, Segregation and Racial Injustice thatinvestigates histories of racism and resistance registered in Rice University’s land, buildings, and monuments.
   
   Fellows: Adrienne Rooney (project manager), Venus Alemanji,  Marc Armeña, Chaney Hill, Stephen Westich
   Mentor: Fabiola López-Durán
10. Fondren Eco-Rep
    Working with Fondren's Green Team and Rice's EcoRep Program, the Fondren Eco-Rep helps to develop and implement sustainability initiatives at the library, such as creating online guides, organizing events, and updating Fondren's sustainability plan.
    
    Fellow: Hong-Ye Wang
    Mentor: Lisa Spiro