Each year the Project Vox team prepares an annual report for our advisory board and key stakeholders at Duke University. In our efforts to share the processes of our work, we want to share sections of our report with our audience. We are excited to share the the tremendous efforts made by the student team […]
Project Vox is comprised of undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty, staff, and community members. With such an array of contributors, our team has developed formalized roles for project management while maintaining flexibility to accommodate different forms of participation and levels of commitment. This post is written from my perspective as Research Lead, a role […]
Over the past two and a half years, I have participated in Project Vox’s research team as a volunteer, a student, and ultimately as Research Lead, a formalized role which involves mentorship and management of the research team. As a PhD candidate in Art History specializing in early modern women artists, I was attracted to […]
It’s no secret that the Project Vox team features members from all kinds of scholarly backgrounds. From undergraduate students to faculty members, so much of what makes Project Vox unique, and what allows it to accomplish what it has accomplished, can be attributed to the fact that it incorporates so many diverse types of expertise […]
As a founding member of the team and project co-lead, Liz Milewicz shares her thoughts on documentation for Project Vox and why documentation—as an object and a process—is a crucial part of the team workflow. The life-changing magic of documentation The life of a long-term digital publication can be messy. Team members come and go, […]
Damla Ozdemir’s post is part of our Behind the Scenes blog series. Roy Auh: How and when did you learn about Project Vox? Damla Ozdemir: Around my junior year of high school, I was reading a book about Voltaire because I was interested in physics, philosophy, and history, and found information about Émilie Du Châtelet. I became […]
Tell us about yourself. What brought you to work as an Image Metadata Intern for Project Vox? Stacy: I am an aspiring librarian with interests in history, women’s studies, African American culture, and outreach. I came to Project Vox to expand my librarian skill set and to support the study of women philosophers. Heather: As […]
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 […]
It’s the beginning of a new semester! Are you curious about how women philosophers would fit into your syllabus? Do you know about the different readings and source materials that you can provide your students? Project Vox’s Teaching section makes that easy! We provide sample syllabi from instructors all over the continent. See how […]
In the fall of 2014, a seminar group sat down to read a text that none of them had read before, not even the professor in the room. Worse than that, the text was in French, and only some of the participants could read French, so they set out to translate it as they went […]
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 […]
