Category: Blog
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Why Make Preservation Accessible to All?
My Lahore Fort digital preservation project is continuing to evolve and spark new results. I am refining my techniques and cementing the method that will serve as the foundation of this project.
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Faculty Senate Chair at RIT
After three years as Chair of the RIT Faculty Senate, I have come away with a treasure trove of insights, realizations and strategic understanding. Leadership, as experienced and viewed close-up from this role has taught me so much, I have spent the past 6 months simply processing everything, trying to find the words to make…
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From the Fort to the “DIP” Project: What is it All About?
The Lahore Fort was the beginning of it all. The place where I discovered a piece of my country’s history hidden under decades of neglect. The beauty of the architecture described in imperial narratives as being not as “valuable” as the Mughal forts preserved in territories further East. The actual experience of walking through the…
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Where did 2023 go (and most of 2024)??
2023 was the year of internal growth. As much as I’d like a simple external list of wins, I found myself forced to slow down and put in the kind of deep work that must be done in order for true progress to be made.
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Frank J Romano Endowed Prize
Exciting news continues! I won the Frank J Romano Endowed Prize for innovative use of technology working with students. The Digital Preservation Process has evolved into the Digital Interactive Preservation method, or DIP method. Two reasons for this: one, because the RIT CHIP Research group, led by Dr Juilee Decker and Dr David Messinger has…
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Mace-Bearer!
You never really think about it until it happens, but here is my third time carrying the mace for an RIT event! Even though I am just starting my second year as Faculty Senate Chair, I was honored to carry the mace for RIT Commencement and the College of Art Convocation of 2022. Here I…
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Introducing… The Lahore Fort 2.0
“Sometimes going back to the beginning is the only way.”― Rachel Hauck, Once Upon a Prince After two decades of meandering through various art media and exploring a number of philosophical avenues, I seem to have come full circle back to a project that has suddenly evolved into a whole new animal. But before I…
