Scholars Studio Faculty Fellow & Extern Symposium

Join us for a presentation of results from seven digital scholarship projects by Graduate Externs and Faculty Fellows at the Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio.

Graduate Student Fellows

Marilla Cubberley is an MFA candidate in the Department of Fibers and Material at Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Marilla’s art practice investigates process and speculation. She uses knitting, sewing, glueing, molding, and welding to make art objects. At the Duckworth Scholars Studio, Marilla has worked on creating a digital archive of 3D models of her objects, so they can be downloaded via an open source platform. She is incorporating 3D scanning and modeling into her artistic practice.

Eugene Kukshinov is a PhD student at Klein College of Media and Communication. His research area is media psychology, which includes concepts of immersion, presence, media identity, and hegemony as a side area related to the political culture in Russia. At the Duckworth Scholars Studio, he is developing virtual environments (VEs) via Unity3D both as treatment and measure of the sense of presence. As a treatment, he is designing a preamble or a virtual replica of the VR studio at Charles Library to manipulate its features in order to test its effect on the sense of presence in VR. At the same time, he is developing a set of VEs (or maybe even an app) to measure presence behaviorally by observing how VR users react to the VEs, which is still an evolving area in the presence scholarship.

Elysia Petras is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology specializing in historical Archaeology. Elysia’s doctoral research investigates the formation of Afro-Anguillan identity, and the social networks of enslaved laborers at the Hughes Estate, an 18th – 19th century sugar plantation in Anguilla, BWI. At the Duckworth Scholars Studio, her project focuses on the applications of digital humanities techniques such as web hosting, and 3D modeling of sites via photogrammetry for purposes of site preservation, research accessibility, and community engagement. She is interested in the potential of digital heritage websites to be dynamic, engaging, decolonized spaces inviting multivocality in knowledge production.

Kyle Schwab is a graduate student in the Department of Bioengineering. His current educational focus is on the development of 3D printing technologies to fabricate biological tissue structures. In his spare time, he operates a 3D printing business from his home, where he designs and fabricates wearable 3D printed masks and accessories embedded with addressable LEDs and microcontrollers. He also uses high- temperature 3D printing filaments to make molds that are then used by a local chocolatier to create custom chocolate designs.

Faculty Fellows

Todd Schifeling is an assistant professor in the Strategic Management Department at the Fox School of Business. He completed his PhD in sociology and an interdisciplinary postdoctoral fellowship at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He studies how organizational and political contexts shape innovation and market dynamics. Most of this research concerns the incorporation of social and environmental concerns into markets, with projects on employment during recessions, the contentious marketing of natural products, the rise of alternative organizational forms like B Corporations, and more. Methodologically, he aims to develop big data tools for organizational research, utilizing interviews, surveys, and historical archives.

Damien Stankiewicz is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, as well as an affiliate of the Global Studies Program. His first book, Europe Un-Imagined: Nation and Culture at a French-German Television Channel (2017), examines cultural dynamics at the transborder, French-German television station ARTE. His current research weaves together traditional, offline fieldwork with digital ethnography, focusing on supporters of the far-right in France to understand the changing nature of offline versus online political participation.

 W. Geoffrey Wright is associate professor and director of the Neuromotor Sciences Program in the College of Public Health. He has a BS in Aerospace Engineering and mathematics, a masters in Experimental Psychology, and a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience. He has been working with virtual reality technology for 25 years and teaching in a physical therapy program for over a decade, both of which have shaped his approach to research. His lab is developing novel applications for assessment and treatment of individuals by incorporating the principles underlying spatial perception, balance, locomotion, and sensorimotor processing. His current research focuses on postural and oculomotor deficits in traumatic brain injury, Parkinson’s Disease, and older adults at fall-risk.

This program will be presented via Zoom. On the day of the program, use this link to join: https://temple.zoom.us/j/99212019355 

All programs are free and open to all, and registration is encouraged.