Megan C. Hagseth, Ph.D.
Research Interests: Human-animal interactions in seafaring communities, identity, agency & habitus, marine artifact conservation, zooarchaeology, pedagogy
2024
Female_Mystic_Art-Hildegard_Von_Bingen.mp4Educational Film Final Cut: Female Mystics: Hildegard von Bingen
9 min. 58 seconds
Working with Tory Schendel-Vyvoda to adapt her article OPTICS AND VISO DEI: INTERPRETATIONS OF FEMALE MYSTIC ART as an educational film to teach the intersectionality of gender and religion from a feminist medieval lens.
HildegardDiscussionHook.mp4Educational Film Teaser Trailer: Female Mystics: Hildegard von Bingen
Working with Tory Schendel-Vyvoda to adapt her article OPTICS AND VISO DEI: INTERPRETATIONS OF FEMALE MYSTIC ART as an educational film to teach the intersectionality of gender and religion from a feminist medieval lens.
2022
PROW Public Access Initiative
PROW Research Group strives to increase public access to cultural heritage, removing barriers through the digitization of objects, monuments, and sites. The PROW Public Access Initiative is a project that collaborates with scholars and institutions to make 3D photogrammetric models. The resultant models are made freely available to the public under CC licenses for both VR/AR applications as well as the creation of downloadable files that are compatible with most 3D printers. Models generated through this project will be organized into study collections along with contextualizing materials geared toward college-level instructors in the social sciences. The goal of these collections is to address issues of accessiblity and provide opportunities for active learning pedagogical strategies.
Current Publicly Available Models
2021
Agency In Legacy Collections
Collaborative project that aims to document objects in legacy collections to support research into identity and agency of “invisible peoples,” driven by a holistic anthropological approach. The activities that filled the everyday lives of average people are often overlooked by the historical record. Objects such as Roman oil lamps have the potential to inform not only on the mundane or minutiae of everyday life but collectively can be extremely valuable in identifying the norms, values, and emic perspectives of groups largely omitted from primary records. The ubiquity of objects like oil lamps in the archaeological record make them ideal for statistical and dynamic analyses, which hold significant potential for identifying outlier behavior and by extension, expressions of agency and identity. The Agency in Legacy Collections project aims to document the mundane in order to create a fuller picture of everyday life in the human experience.
Read the Completed Report: tDAR Project Report
In The News: The Evansville Courier 2021
