Julia Falkovitch-Khain · Web Design

Interests

About

Welcome to my webpage at the University of Michigan! I am a web designer specializing in online exhibitions, archaeological websites, and digital humanities projects. I was educated as an archaeologist and worked extensively with museum collections and databases.

At U-M, I have designed, built, deployed, and maintained dozens of websites of various purposes and scales. I especially enjoy working with museum curators to build online exhibitions. For each project, I create a unique design and layout in order to present the material in a clear, engaging, and user-friendly way, with a particular focus on accessibility and user experience. In my work, I strive to follow new trends and explore emerging ideas and techniques in the digital humanities and in the craft of web design in general.

In 2016–2018, I served as the Kelsey Museum website coordinator and facilitated the migration of its content to a new platform. I developed numerous web exhibitions and other digital projects for the Department of Classical Studies, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, the Humanities Collaboratory, and other departments and units at the University of Michigan.

Highlights

Recent Projects

May 29, 2023 Website: Michigan Post Office Murals Project (online exhibition, Department of History of Art)

July 12, 2022 Website: Early Astronomy in the University of Michigan Collections (online exhibition, Department of Classical Studies)

April 13, 2022 WordPress site: UMMAA at 100: Michigan’s Mark - Past, Present, Future (conference website, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology)

November 28, 2021 WordPress site: Ventresca Miller Collaboratory (faculty website, Archaeological Anthropology)

October 6, 2021 Omeka S site: Below the Line: The Feuilleton & Modern Jewish Cultures (digital collection, Judaic Studies)

Past Projects

May 1, 2020 Website: Randal Stegmeyer: Exposing the Past (online exhibition, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology)

August 23, 2019 Website: Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru, Sudan (online exhibition, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology)

June 3, 2019 Website: Archaeologies of Childhood: The First Years of Life in Roman Egypt (online exhibition, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology)

March 22, 2019 WordPress site: RAPID-K: Regional Archaeology in the Peja and Istog Districts of Kosova (field project website)

January 31, 2019 Website: Ancient Color (online exhibition, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology) Description (PDF)

December 11, 2018 Website: Koelz Collection of Himalayan Art, 3rd edition (web exhibition, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology)

October 18, 2018 Website: Hyecho's Journey (educational site, Humanities Collaboratory)

August 23, 2018 Website: Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern (online exhibition, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology)

February 14, 2018 Website: Death Dogs: The Jackal Gods of Ancient Egypt (online exhibition, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology)

October 16, 2017 Website: Excavating Archaeology @ U-M: 1817–2017 (online exhibition, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology) Description (PDF)

June 1, 2017 Website: Jim Cogswell - Cosmogonic Tattoos (online exhibition, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology)

February 10, 2017 Website: The Art and Science of Healing: From Antiquity to the Renaissance (online exhibition, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology) Description (PDF)

December 24, 2016 Website: Leisure and Luxury in the Age of Nero: The Villas of Oplontis Near Pompeii (online exhibition, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology) Description (PDF)

October 26, 2016 Website: The Art Historical Art of Song China (workshop website, The Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies)

May 5, 2016 Website: Less Than Perfect (online exhibition, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology)

April 14, 2016 Redesign: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (website migration to AEM platform)

September 25, 2015 Website: Rocks, Paper, Memory: Wendy Artin's Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculptures (online exhibition, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology) Description (PDF)

October 27, 2014 Touch screen application: Villa Life in Ancient Rome (in-gallery interactive, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology)

October 7, 2014 Website: Pearls of Wisdom: The Arts of Islam at the University of Michigan (online exhibition, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology) Description (PDF)

March 17, 2014 Website: Archaeology at Michigan (informational portal, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts)

September 5, 2013 Website: Koelz Collection of Himalayan Art, 2nd edition (web exhibition, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology)

June 1, 2013 Website: A Man of Many Parts: The Life and Legacy of Francis Willey Kelsey (online exhibition, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology)

February 3, 2012 Website: The Dean C. Worcester Photographic Collection (web exhibition, Museum of Anthropology)

December 6, 2010 Website: Koelz Collection of Himalayan Art (web exhibition, Museum of Anthropology)

June 4, 2009 Website: Batak Manuscripts (web exhibition, Museum of Anthropology)

Presentations

December 15, 2021 Poster: Using Omeka S for Digital Humanities: A Case Study (PDF), presented at 2021 Michigan IT Symposium

November 29, 2018 Poster: The Making of a Museum Online Exhibition: Theory and Practice (PDF), presented at 2018 Michigan IT Symposium