Mentor Areas
- Global Christianity
- Medieval Middle East
- Architecture
- Syriac Christianity
- Material culture
Description:
My project, "Visualizing Countryside," aims to build a digital archive of architectural photographs of medieval churches and monasteries in the Middle East. The project has two phases: Firstly, we will edit and categorize about 500 photographs of medieval churches, monasteries, and hermitages, mostly from northern Mesopotamian countryside. In the second phase, the project team will curate this material and build a website for the archive, in collaboration with the Price Lab. The final product will be a digital photograph archive, consisting of an interactive map and a searchable database, for the use of students, scholars, and anybody else interested in the history of Christianity in the medieval Middle East.
Preferred Qualifications
I am currently looking for participants for editing the photographs. As you will see on the project's website, each photograph comes with a set of categories of information, such as building type, material, date, measurements, location, etc. The project group will identify the buildings by referring to scholarly publications, and fill in the rest of the information. I don't expect students to be familiar with these medieval buildings, so, we will do this editing together.
Project Website
Learn more about the researcher and/or the project here. Visualizing Countryside: Syriac Orthodox Architecture of Northern Mesopotamia
Details:
Preferred Student Year
First-year, Second-Year, Junior, Senior
Academic Term
Fall, Summer
I prefer to have students start during the above term(s).Volunteer
No
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Yes
Yes indicates that faculty are open to paying students they engage in their research, regardless of their work-study eligibility.Work Study
Yes
Yes indicates that faculty are open to hiring work-study-eligible students.