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 the 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 discipplines 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