Georgetown University Library Showcase – Mapping Projects

Oral histories from the Post-Socialist Region

This project looks at how the forced displacement of Yupik communities shaped Eastern Chukotka.

This cookbook project supports students and faculty to narrate a part of their culture and identity through recipes that tie to a family story. The purpose is for CCT Department to introduce each other to a part of their own heritage that will help us understand our diversity as a community.

Proposed route for “Red-to-Dead” water pipeline considering geographic restraints, environmental protection areas, and human development

The Cerulean Warbler is one of the rarest neotropical migrant songbirds that breed in Pennsylvania. This project shows what areas within the state meet its specific breeding habitat demands and compares them with both eBird observations and past suitability areas.

This visual story features Moscow as the 'Red Mecca' of the 1920s. Reading first-person accounts through a spatial lens. It presents Moscow as a dynamic cultural crossroads — where Russians, Chinese, German, Irish, Iranian, and many other nationalities converged — and as an emotionally charged space where diverse aspirations took root, flourished, or dissolved.

This project uses relevant criteria about accessible trails, environmental justice communities, and local knowledge to decide which current Massachusetts trails have the potential to be converted into ‘All Persons Trails’.

This research project seeks to learn more about the Black man identified as Francis in a 1906 photograph of Georgetown medical students.

Timeline highlighting the history of the School of Nursing at Georgetown University

This project is a StoryMap website that highlights the activities of Carlos Romulo, a Filipino diplomat, during World War II.

A StoryMap of the history of Asian students in Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service from 1948-1967

An exploration of the different motivations of runners, the diversity of the sport, and the advocacy for more inclusivity in competition.

This StoryMaps project seeks to recognize, in a prominent way, the Catholic sisters who led on campus and earned diplomas and degrees.

This StoryMap explores the emotional, physical, and mnemonically liminal space of what it means to be an “exile” living in the United States by showcasing an exiled Chilean Family.

An exploration of London's street markets through StoryMaps, done as the final project for the CALL Scholars program.

This StoryMap tells the story of those whose lives were deemed irreparable before they reached adulthood: that of juvenile lifers.

Explore the history and evolution of musical traditions at Midwest Chinese Family Camp, a camp founded by Chinese Civil War refugees.

"The newly founded female empowerment organization is building sisterhoods of support for women and girls in the DC community," and by compiling all of my journalistic pieces that I wrote throughout the semester about the organization, my storymap presents a cohesive story of what P.R.O.M.I.S.E. (HER) is all about!

I mapped food poverty in Philadelphia using ArcGIS software while reading Marcia Chatelain's book Franchise.

What's in a name? A local high school tries to answer that question as they ask themselves: who deserves the honor of representing their community.

This project is a website of a digital exhibit highlighting several efforts of community control in Harlem.

This site gives a tour of where the food system has gone wrong in Birmingham, Alabama by mapping food access and food sovereignty.

A StoryMap that analyzes the hog industry in Duplin County, NC through an environmental and food justice lens.

"Confronting Climate Change" is an analysis of the relationship between climate gentrification and racial segregation in Dade County, Florida.

This story map provides an overview of community health in the Marina District of San Francisco, exploring various social determinants of health.