Roger Panetta, a former Visiting Professor of History at Fordham, curator of Fordham’s Hudson River Collection, and graduate of the Fordham History M.A. program, has launched a Digital Humanities project, “Shadows on Stone: Identifying Sing Sing’s Incarcerated.” This project, an outgrowth of research that Dr. Panetta conducted in collaboration with Fordham undergraduates, invites the public to participate in a crowdsourcing project to study the Admission Registers of Sing Sing Prison.
To learn more, read this article by Patrick Verel in Fordham News, and visit the “Shadows on Stone” website.