Digital Integration Teaching Initiative

We believe that every student, across all disciplines, needs basic computational skills to be successful in today’s world. The DITI team of graduate students, guided by faculty and staff leads, works with faculty across CSSH to incorporate digital proficiencies into existing syllabi. Rather than adding additional skills or assignments to courses, we work with faculty to integrate digital skills that enhance existing course learning goals. The aim is not to turn all students into computer scientists but to teach skills that will help them be successful in their studies at Northeastern and in the academic and professional work they pursue.

The DITI Team

The Co-Directors of the DITI are Nick Beauchamp, Associate Professor of Political Science, and Sarah Connell, NULab Associate Director. The current team members are listed below, along with some of the skills they are able to bring to class partnerships.

Ayah Aboelela, World History Ph.D. Student

DITI/NULab Research Fellow, Summer 2024–Spring 2025

• Coding & data analysis (R, Python, Jupyter & Colab notebooks)
• Website building (WordPress)  
• GitHub
• Citation management (Zotero)
• Google Suite (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms)
• MS Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

Johan Arango-Quiroga, Public Policy Ph.D. Student

DITI/NULab Research Fellow, Fall 2024

• Qualitative analysis (NVivo)
• Citation management (Zotero)
• Google Suite
• Digital Storytelling (Timeline JS)
• Podcasting (Audacity)
• StoryMaps (Knight Lab)
• MS Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

Avery Blankenship, English Ph.D. Student

DITI/NULab Research Fellow, Summer 2024–Spring 2025

• Coding and data analysis (Python, Jupyter Notebooks, Spyder, Anaconda, IDLE)
• Website building (WordPress, Wix, Drupal, Python Flask)
• Database development (SQLite, MongoDB)
• Digital archiving (Omeka Classic, Omeka-S, WordPress, Drupal)
• Canva
• Text analysis (Python, NLTK, Spacy, Voyant, DARIAH)
• Word embedding models and word vectors (Gensim)
• Google Suite

Halima Haruna, World History Ph.D. Student

DITI/NULab Research Fellow, Fall 2024

• Digital Archives (Omeka-S, Omeka Classic)
• Digital Storytelling (Timeline JS)
• Website building (WordPress) 
• 3D Scanning (Lidar) 
• Web Hosting (Reclaim)
• Google Suite (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms)
• Canva

Claire Lavarreda, World History Ph.D. Student

DITI Assistant Director, Summer 2024

• Digital Storytelling (StoryMaps, Google MyMaps)
• Podcasting/Oral History (Audacity, SoundCloud, Zoom)
• Text Analysis (Voyant)
• Digital Archives (Omeka-S, Omeka Classic)
• “Exploratory” DH (Basic overviews in Twine, Unity, SketchUp)
• Website Building (WordPress)
• Web Hosting (Reclaim)
• Google Suite (Sheets, Slides, Docs, Drive)
• Canva

Sarah Morrell, Political Science Ph.D. Student

DITI/NULab Research Fellow, Fall 2024

• Data Analysis (R, Stata, Tableau) 
• Social Network Analysis (Gephi, Python) 
• Mapping (ArcGIS)
• Natural Language Processing (Python) 
• Podcasting (Audacity)
• Digital Storytelling (StoryMaps)

Shannon Peifer, English MA Student

NULab Coordinator, Fall 2024

• Website building (WordPress, Wix, Drupal)  
• Survey Design (Qualtrics)
• Data Analysis (Tableau, Google Data Studio)
• GitHub
• Citation management (Zotero)
• Google Suite (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms)
• MS Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Canva

Mel Williams, English Ph.D. Student

DITI/NULab Research Fellow, Fall 2024

• Canva
• Citation management (Zotero)
• Google Suite (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms)
• MS Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Website Building (WordPress, Wix)