Georgetown University Library Showcase – Web Site Projects

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

In Professor Janet Gomez's course, Female Rulers from Antiquity to Today, students engaged in a multimedia research project where they documented the history, legacy, and impact of female rulers/leaders to demonstrate their understanding of what it means to be a female ruler/leader as well as communicate the significance of the ruler/leader.

This project used the Library’s Adobe software and its Python courses in LinkedIn Learning to make water funding data usable for analysts.

Historical study of the Mount Zion Cemetery examining the displacement and erasure of Black Georgetown residents.

For my Media and Social Justice class, I reported on the Sikh American community for the entire semester, highlighting their struggles, advocacies, cultures, and identities.

This is a website about the work DC KinCare Alliance is doing to uncover the practice of "hidden foster care." DC KinCare is a non-profit organization that specializes in helping DC caregivers raise vulnerable children. I shine light on what "hidden foster care" is and how the Child and Family Services Agency takes advantage of marginalized communities. I am most proud of the my essay "closing the gaps in care" that show how the foster care system is a pipeline to incarceration that disproportionately affects African Americans. I thought my work with DC KinCare would stop after this class, but I have been moved by the work they are doing and am now interning for them.

Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland still has much to do to support underprivileged students in their path to higher education.

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.

“Bookstores as Vehicles for Activism” is a multi-media journalistic project by Logan Castellanos, focused on literary activism and inequities in the United States.

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

This course website houses blogs on course readings, podcasts on contemporary books, and StoryMaps researching the Middle East in an effort to bring research and resources to the public.

Article on the School of Nursing & Health Studies website about the Class of 1920 nursing students during the flu pandemic.

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.

The current Registration system is provided by Ellucian Banner. Despite its comprehensive features that meet user needs, students often find it difficult to navigate and register due to the unintuitive design.

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

This website explores gentrification as it relates specifically to DC neighborhoods.

Digital Witchcraft investigates the dialogue and images of witch films.

How did we get to our current moment of "post-truth" in media and photography?