The Leventhal Map & Education Center’s Small Grants for Early Career Digital Publications supports scholars through the process of producing a publication for general audiences in a digital format. The program is designed to catalyze creative projects which utilize a digital medium to present scholarly work through engaging, accessible, and experimental communicative modalities.
By the end of the academic year, the Leventhal Map Library will be publishing Alexis Wood's original spatial datasets tracking state secessionist movements across the United States through time. Studio.geo-? URAP students have contributed greatly to this data collection (Fiona McMahon, Rebekah Murphy, Teddy Cleek, Emily Farley, Nerissa Liu), many of them Geography undergraduate students. This data processing will continue into this year as Alexis and her URAP students put together the open database with the help of the rest of studio.geo-?'s team in conjunction with the Leventhal Map Library. Congrats, Alexis!