Digital Humanities
Click to watch the recorded panel discussion with DH scholars on what it means to do DH.
History
Featured Projects
- Stories Behind the Brick and Mortar: Voices of Mississippi University for Women – walking tour with alumnae audio by an MUW Honors History student, Lauren Harmon (’20)
- Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project, University of Virginia Scholar’s Lab, 2018
- Colored Conventions – for researchers “interested in the history of activist church, civil rights, educational and entrepreneurial engagement”
- Torn Apart/Separados – “a new look at the territory and infrastructure of ICE’s financial regime in the USA”
- LC Labs – projects using the Library of Congress’ digital collections
For more context
- Seefeldt and Thomas, “What is Digital History?” Perspectives on History, 2009
- American Historical Association, “Digital History Glossary”
Literature
Featured Projects
- Digital Yoknapatawpha, University of Virginia
- A Network Analysis of Shakespeare’s Plays, Lee, Grinnell College
- Digital Thoreau, Schacht, SUNY Geneseo
- Austen Said: Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen’s Major Novels, White, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
For more context
- Underwood, “Seven Ways Humanists Are Using Computers to Understand Text,” The Stone and the Shell, 2015.
Philosophy and Religion
Featured Projects
- Project Vox – highlighting female voices in the philosophy canon, Duke University faculty and students
- The Internet Philosophy Ontology (InPhO) project – mapping a taxonomy of philosophical content, Indiana University and collaborators
- Jonathan Edwards Center – searchable collections of sermons and writings by Jonathan Edwards, hosted by Yale University
- Virtual St. Paul’s Cathedral Project – digital recreation of John Donne’s Gunpowder Day sermon (1662), hosted by NC State University
- Encounter: Mapping Religion – mapping platform from Santa Clara University that collects data on local religions and records observations about experiences
Languages
Featured Projects
- Ticha: A Digital Text Explorer for Colonial Zapotec – digitized indigenous texts from Oaxaca, by Haverford College professor Brooke Lillehaugen
- Chicana por mi Raza – preserving Chicanx and Latinx histories of the long civil rights era
- Quijote Interactivo – an interactive first edition of Cervantes’ Don Quijote throughthe National Library of Spain.