Digital Scholarship

Making Space
for Refusal

Digital projects that argue with form as much as content: counter-archives, mapped resistances, and collaborative platforms where space, story, and solidarity cannot be separated.

Cinematic Counter-Cartographies
01 · Major Project

CHI Fellowship · MSU · 2025–2026

Cinematic Counter-Cartographies

A digital archive mapping how Palestinian women filmmakers transform Israeli checkpoints and surveillance infrastructures into sites of cinematic resistance across twenty-five years of film.

PlatformGitHub Pages · HTML/CSS/JS · ArcGIS
PeriodPalestinian Cinema, 2000–2025
FilmmakersMasri · Jacir · Nabulsi
CheckpointsQalandiya · Huwwara · Rachel · Container
Sumud Counter-Cartography Feminist Witnessing Arabic · English
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A Palm Oil Project
02 · Collaborative

ArcGIS StoryMaps · MSU · March 2024

A Palm Oil Project

A collaborative digital humanities project exploring the global, environmental, and social impacts of palm oil production. Using digital mapping and storytelling, the project traces the histories, labor, and ecologies entangled with palm oil in Indonesia and beyond.

PlatformArcGIS StoryMaps
FocusEnvironmental justice · Labor · Commodity chains
CollaborationApril Best · Jambi University, Indonesia
Environmental Justice COIL Partnership Global Humanities Indonesia
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StoryMaps · MSU · April 2025

Surveilled Spaces: Exploring Memory, Borders, and Resistance in Palestinian Cinema

A StoryMap examining how Palestinian cinema documents and refuses surveillance infrastructures, tracing how filmmakers use the checkpoint as both setting and symbol to challenge the visual logic of occupation.

StoryMaps Surveillance Studies Memory · Borders Palestinian Cinema