On campus I'm involved in Professor Erik Bleich's Media Portrayals of Minorities Project lab, where we use digital sources to better understand depictions of minorities in the media. Our goal is to track and explain how and why media representations of groups shift over time, vary across place, or compare to one another. We use a mix of computer-assisted and human coding techniques that allow us to analyze large quantities of media data. Our approach provides a new way of understanding how the media establish, reproduce, and influence the portrayals of minority groups in media.
The lab has been featured in publications such as the Washington Post. For more information, please see the Media Portrayals of Minorities Project website here.
In the Summer of 2020, I worked with Professor Jeff Howarth to compile a resource guide about traditional Japanese Cartography.
In the fall of 2021, I co-created a Shiny Web app using R Studio exploring the relationship between Covid-19 and food deserts, which can be found here.