Five more undergraduate interns completed their Digital Atlas Design projects in Fall 2025! Throughout the semester, each of them conducted historical research on a topic having to do with the global past, and created their own atlas, a spatial database about that topic. Combining writing, visual imagery, narrative, georeferenced historical maps, and interactive authored maps, each of these projects present a multimedia narrative on their respective topics using ArcGIS StoryMaps. Interns completed their project under the direction of Sharon Zhang, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History and Graduate Student Assistant at the WHC (Fall 2025).
Check out the Fall 2025 projects below!
"Infant Mortality and Milk Hygiene Reform in Pittsburgh" by Julia Feibusch
"Placing the 'Bidonville:' A Portuguese Case Study" by Jolie Feltz)
"Taking Food as Heaven: Exploring the intertwined histories of street markets and disease in Colonial Hong Kong" by Simon Fisher
"Back to the Institution? New York, Trieste, and the Politics of Deinstitutionalization" by Shannon Pagdon
"Pastoral Care and Public Memory: The AIDS Crisis in New York: Churches in New York, 1980-1999" by Matthew Hannigan
"Mapping LGBTQ+ Resturants in the US: Post-World War II Through the AIDS Crisis" by Ava Lashner
A Map of Hong Kong's public markets in 2024 from "Taking Food as Heaven: Exploring the intertwined histories of street markets and disease in Colonial Hong Kong" by Simon Fisher.
Visit the Digital Atlas Design Project Gallery to browse all student projects.