Digital humanities (DH) methods and tools enable us to visualize and analyze our historical research in ways not possible through traditional written scholarship, and present out research in engaging interactive formats. If you are interested in exploring ideas and tools for digital projects for your History M.A. work, I am here to help you! I will likely provide DH instruction for some of your M.A. classes. I am always available for consultations throughout your academic career at CSUF. I also regularly serve as the DH faculty member on History and Museum Studies M.A. digital projects.
Following are recent examples of DH projects created by CSUF students, faculty, and staff.
This is an ArcGIS StoryMap created by CSUF graduate student Carlos Escobedo III for his 2023 M.A. project in History with a Concentration in Chicana/o Studies. The digital mapping features were built using StoryMaps express maps blocks and a guided map tour block.
This interactive digital story was created by CSUF History M.A alum Patrick Michael in 2024 for his M.A. project. It is primarily built with ThingLink but also uses TimelineJS for the digital timeline, Felt for mapping, and Mentimeter.
This is a collection of ArcGIS StoryMaps created by CSUF Digital Scholarship Librarian Colleen Robledo Greene to chronicle the WWI U.S. Army service of her great-grandfather Patrick Flanagan. This ArcGIS StoryMaps version provides a longer form more detailed narrative than the Google Earth Pro version. Colleen first published this in 2023 and continues to update it. In Part I, the digital mapping is built using StoryMaps express maps blocks and the timeline is built using the StoryMaps timeline block. In Part II, most of the maps are built with StoryMaps express maps blocks, and the summary map at the end is built with the guided map tour block.
This multimedia, immersive, digital story provides a "boots on the ground" look at the life story of Maria (Nieto) Robledo, a Mexican immigrant who moved to California. This story is built on Google Earth Web by CSUF Digital Scholarship Librarian Colleen Robledo Greene, the great-granddaughter of Maria. Colleen first published the story in 2022, redesigned it in 2025, and is still adding to it.
This is a collection of Google Earth Web stories created by CSUF Digital Scholarship Librarian Colleen Robledo Greene chronicling the WWI U.S. Army service of her great-grandfather Patrick Flanagan. This Google Earth Web version provides a more "boots on the ground" view than the ArcGIS StoryMaps version.
This digital exhibit was curated in Spring 2021 by Andrea Jackson, then a CSUF Cultural Anthropology Graduate Student and student assistant for the Pollak Library Exhibit Program. It is built on Adobe Express pages.
This digital exhibit and interactive digital map was built by CSUF alumn David Wells for completion of his M.A. in History in 2020. Although the live project no longer exists in its original form, the project has been web archived by the Pollak Library University Archives & Special Collections using Archive-It. The website was created using a self-hosted instance of Omeka Classic. The digital exhibit was built using the Exhibit Builder plugin. The interactive mapping functionality was built with the Geolocation plugin, the Neatline plugin, and Map Warper to georeference images.
This 2024 immersive 3D digital exhibit was curated in 2024 by Yajaira Vilchis-Alvarez, an M.A. Student in Cultural Anthropology. She worked on this exhibition as a CSUF DEFCon (Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium) fellow. The 3D version of the physical exhibit – previously on display in the Teaching Museum in McCarthy Hall – was built using Matterport Digital Twins.
CSUF students in Dr. Charles Cunha's Criminal Justice courses in Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 researched different social justice themes in the criminal justice profession and worked in teams on the digital narratives that are part of Dr. Cunha's Social Justice Through Procedural Fairness digital exhibit project. Students in one of his Fall 2025 courses are adding to the digital exhibit. Students collaborated in small groups on the ArcGIS StoryMaps digital multimedia narratives, which are curated together into themes using ArcGIS StoryMaps Collections. Dr. Cunha uses an ArcGIS Hub website as a home page for the exhibit, with the thematic collections embedded in a Hub page.
This interactive digital exhibit was curated by CSUF English Literature professor Dr. David Sandner in 2020. It is built on Adobe Express pages as a digital component to the physical exhibit Dr. Sandner and his team curated for the Pollak library.
This interactive, multimedia, digital timeline was created by CSUF Archivist & Special Collections Librarian Patrisia Prestinary. It was built using the TimelineJS platform and showcases some of the historical CSUF collections from the University Archives & Special Collections (UA&SC). Compare how this story version looks against how the the guided map tour timeline looks in the ArcGIS StoryMaps version (Part II) of Flanagan's story.
This interactive, multimedia, digital timeline story chronicles Private Patrick Flanagan's WWI service in the U.S. Army, from draft registration, to being drafted, then bootcamp, and shipped overseas. It was created by CSUF Digital Scholarship Librarian Colleen Robledo Greene in 2025 using the TimelineJS platform.
This is a collection of ArcGIS StoryMaps created by CSUF Digital Scholarship Librarian Colleen Robledo Greene to chronicle the WWI U.S. Army service of her great-grandfather Patrick Flanagan. This ArcGIS StoryMaps version provides a longer form more detailed narrative than the Google Earth Pro version. Colleen first published this in 2023 and continues to update it. In Part I, the digital mapping is built using StoryMaps express maps blocks and the timeline is built using the StoryMaps timeline block. In Part II, most of the maps are built with StoryMaps express maps blocks, and the summary map at the end is built with the guided map tour block.
Mapping Confederate Monuments is a digital archive and mapping project created by students in Dr. Benjamin Cawthra’s Fall 2020 and Fall 2023 Introduction to Public History classes at CSUF. Students researched relevant monuments, curated digital artifacts, wrote accompanying narratives, and georeferenced each monument on an interactive map. Colleen Robledo Greene, Digital Literacy Librarian (now Digital Scholarship Librarian, provided instruction and site management for the project. The website is built using Omeka.net and uses the Geolocation plugin for the interactive digital map.
This digital exhibit and interactive digital map was built by CSUF alumn David Wells for completion of his M.A. in History in 2020. Although the live project no longer exists in its original form, the project has been web archived by the Pollak Library University Archives & Special Collections using Archive-It. The website was created using a self-hosted instance of Omeka Classic. The digital exhibit was built using the Exhibit Builder plugin. The interactive mapping functionality was built with the Geolocation plugin, the Neatline plugin, and Map Warper to georeference images.
This is an ArcGIS StoryMap created by CSUF graduate student Carlos Escobedo III for his 2023 M.A. project in History with a Concentration in Chicana/o Studies. The digital mapping features were built using StoryMaps express maps blocks and a guided map tour block.
This is a collection of ArcGIS StoryMaps created by CSUF Digital Scholarship Librarian Colleen Robledo Greene to chronicle the WWI U.S. Army service of her great-grandfather Patrick Flanagan. This ArcGIS StoryMaps version provides a longer form more detailed narrative than the Google Earth Pro version. Colleen first published this in 2023 and continues to update it. In Part I, the digital mapping is built using StoryMaps express maps blocks and the timeline is built using the StoryMaps timeline block. In Part II, most of the maps are built with StoryMaps express maps blocks, and the summary map at the end is built with the guided map tour block.
This multimedia, immersive, digital story provides a "boots on the ground" look at the life story of Maria (Nieto) Robledo, a Mexican immigrant who moved to California. This story is built on Google Earth Web by CSUF Digital Scholarship Librarian Colleen Robledo Greene, the great-granddaughter of Maria. Colleen first published the story in 2022, redesigned it in 2025, and is still adding to it.
This is a collection of Google Earth Web stories created by CSUF Digital Scholarship Librarian Colleen Robledo Greene chronicling the WWI U.S. Army service of her great-grandfather Patrick Flanagan. This Google Earth Web version provides a more "boots on the ground" view than the ArcGIS StoryMaps version.