This semester, Project Vox reached a wonderful milestone: 100,000 unique users have now visited our site! As a small project focused on team mentorship and training in academic research, 100,000 unduplicated visitors to the Project Vox website is a number well worth celebrating. These analytics also demonstrate the importance and reach of open-access scholarship. We […]
Meet Anna Maria van Schurman: New Philosopher on Project Vox! If there is ever a person where describing them as “remarkable,” “extraordinary,” or “incredible” is an understatement, it is the Dutch genius Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678). To start, she was fluent in more than a dozen of languages, deeply erudite in a variety of […]
The Project Vox team hopes everyone is remaining safe amid the coronavirus outbreak and its consequences in our daily life. As educators move their instruction online in response to efforts to contain the outbreak, many vendors have responded by making their previously restricted materials freely available to the public for a limited time. Project Vox, […]
We are excited to announce an UPDATED bibliography of Émilie Du Châtelet! Onto the Bibliography section of Émilie Du Châtelet, we have included dozens of new sources that have been published since our entry was originally launched on 2015. Check them out now! We hope to continue keeping our philosopher entries as up-to-date with relevant […]
Émilie Du Châtelet worked on various scientific topics during the late 1730s, and the Essai sur l’Optique, or “essay on optics,” comes from that period. It shares much in common with her essay on the nature and propagation of fire, and serves as an important counterpoint to some aspects of her major later work, the […]
Check out Project Vox’s Andrew Janiak on the New Narratives in the History of Philosophy’s new podcast. The New Narratives project “aims to develop new narratives of our philosophical past that centrally include women thinkers, and thereby to reconfigure, enrich and reinvigorate the philosophical canon.” You can listen to Andrew talk about Project Vox, image culture, the philosophy […]
This blog post highlights members of the 2017–2018 research team for Project Vox. The research team is a rotating group of students who collaborate to write new material for our site. This year the students wrote a new entry for Princess Elisabeth that will be available on our site soon pending review by our project […]
Did you know that Project Vox publishes a biannual newsletter? Subscribe at the bottom of our home page by submitting your email address to learn about newly published information on the site. Last fall we sent a newsletter to announce our transcription of Émilie Du Châtelet’s Essai sur l’Optique. Remember that you can also follow […]
Tell us about yourself. What brought you to work as the Assessment Analyst for Project Vox? My name is Adam Griggs and I am a Research Services Librarian at Mercer University. I found out about Project Vox as a second-year grad student in Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill. At the time, I was hoping to […]
For the first time, the French text of Émilie Du Châtelet’s Essai sur l’Optique–her essay on optics–is now available. The release of the text represents an international collaboration and more than two years of work on four manuscript sources. Scholars working on Du Châtelet, women in early modern philosophy, and the history of science and optics will […]
Tell us about yourself. What brought you to work as a part of the Project Vox team? My name is Abby Flanigan and I’m currently the Research Librarian for Music and Performing Arts at the University of Virginia. I joined the Project Vox team in September 2015, at the start of my second year of […]
Project Vox Co-leader, Andrew Janiak, wrote about his first time learning of Émilie Du Châtelet and how that led to the creation of PV. Read his article, “Who was that Marquise? Rediscovering forgotten voices of women in philosophy,” in the Washington Post. This article was later reprinted in The Lily.
Tell us about yourself. What brought you to work as the Outreach & Assessment Coordinator of Project Vox? I am a critical communication scholar who researches the relationship between rhetoric, technology, and culture. Currently, I am Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Technology at Kansas State University. I worked with Project Vox during my doctoral training […]
Tell us about yourself. What brought you to work as the Project Manager of Project Vox? My academic training is in musicology; I’m a Ph.D. Candidate at Duke, and my dissertation focuses on opera reception and representations of masculinity in four works by Italian fascist composers from 1935 to 1941. I didn’t know anything about […]
This fall Project Vox starts its fourth year as a digital publishing initiative. While we’ve been fortunate to receive internal and external funding to help support student team members’ work, nearly half have been volunteers—students who worked with our team merely to gain experience in team-based research projects and digital publishing. Many of these students […]
Earlier this year Project Vox was mentioned in an article on The Atlantic about the movie The Circle (2017), a technological thriller. Elizabeth Yale discusses how “women are cast as consumers [of communications technologies], rather than agents; controlled, rather than controlling.” She refers to two women, Margery Kempe (c. 1373–1438) and Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673), who […]
We are excited to announce that we have a new site! Among the new things you can look for are additional images and an updated gallery, user-friendly pages for our philosophers, a cleaner layout, and a news section on the front page. With the launch of our redesigned site, Project Vox is accessible at both its […]
