Digital and Data Humanities Summer Fellowships Cohort Archive

Mediating Energy Past and Present: Infrastructures of Standard Oil

This digital curation will serve as a resource for the general public and scholars who share interests in the emerging academic fields of energy humanities and media infrastructure. Specifically, this online project uses the history of Standard Oil to rethink the histories of media and infrastructure in California and China. By borrowing methods from the fields of (media) infrastructure studies, energy humanities, and research on media and the environment, this project emerges as a complement to my dissertation project on the history of petroleum infrastructures. This digital platform will contain three components: curations of images and films, an interactive map, and a collection of recent scholarly works.