I am Christian Condo Gilkes, a recent graduate from DePauw University with a scholarly background in the history discipline. Pursuing a graduate education in Digital Humanities means leveraging the expertise developed during my time in undergraduate studies. Majoring in history resulted in the completion of five research experiences, including a senior thesis and a joint-study project with an art course. My undergraduate background is not solely concentrated around history since I have also taken courses in physics and data visualization. These academic experiences ultimately led to personal concentrations on general access to digital historical knowledge, as well as the various ways history topics are represented on the internet.  

As Research Lead in the “AI Hallucinations” project, I am responsible for research efforts in attaining the scholarship needed to curate a database that details AI representations of recollected/published Puerto Rican history. Furthermore, that entails discovering unique directions of attaining the information needed for constructing the essential database(s). This is, overall, an opportunity to examine how history is studied by AI-generative algorithms while leveraging my prior experiences, and seeing what the results could mean for the overall study of past human experiences.