PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, ADVISER

He / Him / His

Rogers Hall is the Wachtmeister Chair Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Vanderbilt University. His research concerns learning and teaching in STEM conceptual practices, comparative studies of embodied action in these practices, and the organization and development of representational practices more generally. Hall completed his Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, then taught for ten years at UC Berkeley before joining the Vanderbilt faculty, where he served as chair of the Department of Teaching and Learning between 2011 and 2017.

Dr. Hall advises graduate students, Emma included, in their pursuit of research based in learning on the move, sound, palimpsest, placemaking, and critical history.

Read more of Dr. Hall’s work here.

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

She / her / hers

Emma is a fourth-year doctoral student in Learning and Design and in Comparative Media Analysis and Practice at Vanderbilt University. She has been a VIDL fellow (2018-19) and a Mellon Digital Humanities fellow (2019-20); Emma is currently a Curb Public Scholar (2020-22).

She is intrigued by the way learners leverage sound media, from song to oral history, to make sense of their environments and themselves. Emma’s research seeks a nuanced understanding of digital, multimedia interaction illuminates the narrative identities that individuals and groups ascribe to places and, in turn, how those place identities inform personal identities. Song Club is a project associated with Emma’s dissertation.

Read more of Emma’s work here.

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