Digital Humanities

What are the Digital Humanities?
Digital Humanities is an emerging area of study that is interdisciplinary, collaborative, and creative. The digital humanities brings computing to humanities research and teaching in order to make our work accessible to the public in new and exciting ways with the advent of new 24/7, always-available technologies of the Internet, Twitter, and other forms of social networking. The field focuses on the digitization and analysis of materials related to the traditional disciplines of humanities research. Research and teaching now incorporate data visualization, information retrieval and digital publishing to the traditional humanities fields of history, philosophy, linguistics, literature, art and more.
ihr seed grants
Chinese Painting & Calligraphy: A New Digital Archive, Project Director(s): Claudia Brown, Professor of Art History, School of Art, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts
Digital Mappaemundi: A Resource for the Study of Medieval Maps and Geographic Texts, Project Director(s): Asa Simon Mittman, Senior Lecturer, Art History; Robert Bjork, Professor, English Department and Director, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Martin Foys, Associate Professor, English, Hood College
ihr Research clusters
Friending Facebook: Social Media and the [Re]construction of Self and Other, 2010-2011
ihr Working groups
Latest News
- April 11th, 2013 The Ian Fletcher Memorial Lecture featuring Regenia Gagnier
- April 5th, 2013 Technologies of Imagination: Fifty years beyond Man and His Future
- April 2nd, 2013 Donald Johanson, Finder of Lucy fossil puts evolution on display
- March 28th, 2013 Telling Imaginaries: Places, Histories, and the Global
Did you know?
The IHR is a member of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes.