http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/uci_libs_ufdh/rss Recent eScholarship items from Undergraduate Fellowship in Digital Humanities (UFDH) Sat, 17 Oct 2026 04:31:36 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8sv5v56v The variation, politicization, and censorship in American K-12 historical education is most evident in textbook treatments of the American Civil War. This research investigates the development of the American Civil War and how it is taught in K-12 American schools, as well as the extent to which its education varies across time period and location. Previous research has demonstrated the average American adult’s perception of the Civil War’s development to be disparate. In this project, I utilize textual analysis of over a dozen textbooks, using Voyant Tools and critical analysis, to provide a clear depiction of each primary source’s bias and interpretation. I carefully review each reference to enslaved people, enslavers, Black people, and white people. Additionally, I analyze the textbook's explanations of the war’s main cause; the war’s timeline/development; why the Confederacy was defeated, and its features (terms, graphics, etc.). The main indicators of bias are “case studies,”... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8sv5v56v Fri, 2 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Josserand, Jenna https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6zf495wb Superstition, Hauntings, and the Armenian Genocide in Kurdish Collective Memory https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6zf495wb Fri, 2 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Ter-Martirosyan, Angela https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6vk633rp Built on Hope: The Feminist Star Wars Project is an online database that takes the larger Star Wars transmedia franchise and uses a critical feminist film theory lens in its analysis and interpretation of the various canon and non-canon (including Star Wars Legends) mediums (books, comics, video games, films, animated TV shows, and live action TV shows) and their characters. This project combines film, feminist, and transmedia theories in its analysis of the franchise to determine if viewers can read this science fiction-fantasy franchise as feminist. The project contains a series of viewing guides, reading guides, and interactive guides to the franchise to help readers identify and use a feminist lens in their interpretations and interactions with the Star Wars transmedia universe. By critically analyzing Star Wars media, Built on Hope will meet a new fan and academic need for updated and inclusive scholarship in the realm of Disney’s Star Wars. The Star Wars franchise is at... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6vk633rp Fri, 2 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Amidon, Lily https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6gq9g02k This project examines how the Soviet Union shaped cultural identity through children’s animated media, using digital humanities tools to explore some of the values and messages woven in two well known Soviet cartoons. Although these films might appear simple on the surface, they played a crucial role in introducing children to ideas about community, responsibility, and social belonging. By translating and subtitling Cheburashka (1971) and There Once Lived a Dog (1982) myself directly from the original Russian, I was able to engage closely with the tone, humor, and cultural nuance that are often lost in some standard translations. The prototype for this project is an interactive ArcGIS StoryMap that brings together translated clips from each film, thematic analysis, historical context, and photographs. Ultimately, this project shows that Soviet children’s cartoons offer valuable insight into how the state imagined cultural identity and expected it to be passed on. As remnants of... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6gq9g02k Fri, 2 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Beknazarova, Samantha https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5q57n78b Language is influenced by culture, a development that is unique to humankind. It is specific to a group of people and changes with time. And with all of this, identity is formed, including but not limited to national, cultural, and ethnic. But this system simultaneously divides and oppresses groups, stripping them of their sense of identity to conform them into another. A close examination of the philosophies behind Hangul’s creation, preservation through Korea’s history of colonization, and the uses in the present day can explain the relationship between humanity and language. This research considers the sociocultural impacts of language, using the Korean language as an example and observing its evolution with respect to historical events and timelines. Why is language crucial to humans, other than the fact that it simply allows people to communicate? What significance, or worth, did Koreans find in Hangul that enabled this motivation to protect, and what does this say about... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5q57n78b Fri, 2 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lee, Rachael https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5kg748hg During the 1970s and 1980s, Filipino American activists were wrestling with martial law and human rights violations in the Philippines, as well as the history and continuation of racial discrimination in the United States. One of the ways in which activists responded to these challenges was through art-making, producing works that included paintings, plays, and poetry, among other mediums. The “Developing ‘Transnational Perspectives: Filipino American Political Art, 1972-1986’ Digital Humanities Project” poster outlines the purpose, format, and digital humanities tools used in my “Transnational Perspectives: Filipino American Political Art, 1972-1986” website prototype, which seeks to map, on a digital timeline, Filipino American political art alongside the historical events related to its production. In addition to discussing the content and tools used in the website creation process, the poster describes what an ideal version of the project could look like with more time and... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5kg748hg Fri, 2 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Vargas, Ariana https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5gb4g0bx While theaters primarily provide entertainment for their patrons, they doubly serve as a place of comfort. No place was this more true than the Yost Theater in Santa Ana, California. Amidst brutal segregation and racial violence, the theater did more than let Latino Americans sit in the front row, it played their films. This project aims to recover the history of the Yost and give voice to the community and family who transformed it. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5gb4g0bx Fri, 2 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Calderón, Sebastián https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5334p1j2 The purpose of this project is to make Parable of the Sower accessible to an audience in a different medium, while also bring together the element of actual California fires. Using spatial storytelling with the Knight Labs StoryMaps tool, 20 fires from both archival California data and the novel were compiled; text and visual elements were included. Further analysis on Parable was conducted, synthesizing the discourse on the genres under which the novel falls under and underscoring the environmental themes found in the novel. While the StoryMap does not offer a significant comparison between actual fires and Parable, it fulfills its purpose as a spatial retelling of the novel. Traditional literary analysis reveals how Butler's environmental themes work as both the foreground and the backdrop to Lauren's journey, underscoring the relationship between humans and nature. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5334p1j2 Fri, 2 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Navarro, Geneses https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4gx9q51b Fifty-five years ago, the Santa Barbara area experienced the largest oil spill in the United States at its time of occurrence. In the afternoon of January 28, 1969, offshore of the Santa Barbara, a blowout of Union Oil's Company Platform A caused the release of more than 4.5 million gallons of crude oil to seep into the ocean floor, resulting in crude foam to rest across 150 to 200 miles across the coast of Santa Barbara, washing up dead and dying bodies of seabirds, fish, and other marine life (LeMenager 21). In the days following the oil spill's aftermath onto the Santa Barbara Channel, the spill sparked public outrage from Santa Barbara residents and others across the nation. As residents of the Santa Barbara area and other Americans across the nation witnessed the violence of cheap energy, many trying to cope with the devastation transformed people into activists working to protect the environment. Media and print coverage of clean-up and rescue efforts of marine life in the... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4gx9q51b Fri, 2 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Garcia Hernandez, Adilene https://escholarship.org/uc/item/32w2r6fs My research, Vision Through Films: Women’s Internalization of a Surveyor Male under Men’s Promise of Power, examines the internalization of the “surveyor male,” a concept stemming from the pervasive “male gaze” that influences women to evaluate themselves through a lens shaped by male expectations. The project blends psychoanalysis, film theory, and feminist theory to explore the complexities of women's representation in visual culture, particularly in the context of contemporary media. The research comprises three parts: psychoanalysis fundamentals, a Knightlab timeline, and a short video collection. The first section introduces Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema by offering a quote from the original essay, along with explanations of key terms and overall meanings. The timeline traces the evolution of male gaze, anti-male gaze, and female gaze, and psychoanalysis in film from the 1960s to the present, showcasing how social awareness has altered and subverted former gender hierarchies.... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/32w2r6fs Fri, 2 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Kang, Sissi https://escholarship.org/uc/item/304096fq TikTok has become a popular source for trend, news, and controversy, pushing out constant videos catering to a new age of digital information. From TikTok came the Chinese food debate, a war between American Chinese cuisine and British Chinese cuisine on which is “better”. Americans, disgusted by British Chinese cuisine’s excessive use of curry sauce and seemingly inauthentic Chinese dishes of prawn crackers and other fried staples, encouraged British diners to expand their palates beyond their seemingly bland and saucy dishes. Even large creators such as Soogia, a Korean American TikToker prominent in Asian American spaces, commented on the debate. Brits, on the other hand, defend their unique cuisine claiming that while it may not be “authentic”, its history born from Chinese diaspora in Britain makes it not as different from American Chinese cuisine as it may seem. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/304096fq Fri, 2 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Chin, Corinna https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1t34571h This project tells the story of Imperial Valley farm workers working in the fields during the 1960s and 1970s during the emergence of the UFW. The Imperial Valley is a county of agrarian small cities near the border of Mexicali, whose biggest industry is agriculture. This research is told in the perspective of the Silva Family, a family of 17, that immigrated from Mexicali to the Imperial Valley in order to work in the fields in the mid-1960s. Research was conducted by interviewing 4 of my family members: Isabel Silva (100 years old), Javier Silva Jr. (82 years old), Gustavo Silva (66 years old) and Maria Silva (66 years old). They talk about their hardships of working in the fields, their activism in the UFW and the effects of the UFW on their community and lives. I would like to tell this story as it is one that often overlooks individual farm workers that were involved in the UFW and it allows my family's story to be heard.This activism is something that deserves to be heard... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1t34571h Fri, 2 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Valdovinos, Gisele