Digital History Students Receive Funding for Summer Research

April 25, 2024

As the summer approaches, many of the Digital History Ph.D. students are off to do exciting research thanks to Clemson University’s Humanities Hub! Below is a roundup of some of the exciting research students will be pursuing thanks to the Hub.

Addison Horton

Addison Horton’s project is entitled “‘Antebellum Affairs’ in the United States South.” During the summer she will travel to visit the State Archives in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia to collect data, which she will then organize into dataset which she can analyze using digital methods. This is part of a larger project that will contribute to her dissertation.

Megha Khanna

Megha Khanna’s received funding to travel to India over the summer to conduct research for her project, “Shadows of the Raj” which investigates how British colonialism transformed the societal roles of courtesans in 1857 India.  These women, once respected for their artistic and cultural contributions, faced marginalization as British rule took hold.

Hallie Knipp

Hallie Knipp will travel to Berea, Kentucky to conduct research for her project entitled “Mountain Labors: Contraceptives and Eugenics in 1930s Appalachia.” The Humanities hub grant will fund research at Berea College where she will delve into the history of the Mountain Maternal Health League and then will fund the work to process this research into a workable digital database.