Past Digital Thesis: Ellen White’s Benevolent Millennialism

The completed digital thesis project that I looked at was “Ellen White’s Benevolent Millennialism” by Kaitlyn O’Hagan. The chief visual element used on the website is an interactive digital timeline that provides historical context to Ellen White’s life, as well as her own achievements. Another visual element that is incorporated is a wordle.net word cloud, which highlights key terms in the written thesis, such as “health,” “reform,” “Church,” and Methodist. Looking at that alongside the timeline provides the viewer with a fairly clear idea (at least of the background) of Kaitlyn’s written project.

The site itself if fairly simple and uncomplicated–the homepage is the timeline, and the other three pages provide a brief “About the paper,” acknowledgments, contact, and the written paper itself. I think the simplicity and the straightforwardness of the site make it accessible to a fairly large audience (one doesn’t need to know a great deal about American history or health reform or the Seventh-Day Adventists to understand it). The site is largely informational and educational about Ellen White.