Zines from my research group
A zine is a short, self-published, often hand-drawn and hand-lettered booklet, usually reproduced by photocopying. This page collects zines created by my students and me!
Communicating Chorrectly with a Choreography
This zine is an introduction to choreographic programming, and is the result of a six-month collaboration between my student collaborator Ali Ali and me, published in December 2024. The 12-page, full-color zine is free to download, print, and distribute!
If you want printed copies, download the booklet-formatted version and print double-sided with long edge binding. You’ll get four double-sided pages that will be ready to fold into a booklet. We suggest printing in color if you can, but it will also look good if printed in black and white!
More zines created by my students
You may also be interested in “Fighting Faults in Distributed Systems”, another zine created by Ali Ali for my winter 2024 undergraduate distributed systems course.
For educators and researchers
If you want zine creation to be part of your teaching and research practice, I’ve written some things that might be of use to you.
My blog post “My students made zines, and so can you(rs)!” discusses how I’ve experimented with zine creation as an optional assignment in my undergrad distributed systems course – an idea I originally got from Cynthia Taylor at Oberlin College, and which has since been adopted by Peter Peterson as an optional assignment in his computer security and operating systems courses at the University of Minnesota Duluth.
My NSF CAREER grant proposal discussed my plans for integrating zine creation into my research and teaching practice. Feel free to contact me to ask for a copy of the REU supplemental funding request that made the “Communicating Chorrectly” zine possible (by making it possible for me to pay my awesome student collaborator).