Welcome

Welcome to the Virtual Center for Digital Humanities, your online portal to a range of projects that use new forms of technology to support research, education, preservation, and public programs at the University of South Carolina.

The Center for Digital Humanities was established in 2008 by a group of scholars who believe that the future of research and teaching in the humanities is bound to digital methodologies, pedagogies, and media. We believe that the brilliance of humanistic inquiry across many fields--history, literature, art, science, and information science--lies in its increasingly interdisciplinary nature, and that creating a Center, both physically and virtually, will transform research and teaching by fostering new models of inquiry.

Our pilot effort, the Digital Humanities Initiative, demonstrated the importance of the Center's mission. We have developed projects that feature a range of technical challenges, fostered innovative uses of technology in the classroom, and helped faculty, staff, and students across the campus explore possibilities created by digital technologies. The Center is proud to acknowledge the support and collaboration that made this pilot phase possible, including crucial contributions from the College of Arts and Sciences, the Office of Information Technology, the Office of the Vice President for Research, the School of Library and Information Science, the Departments of Art, Computer Science, English, History, and Philosophy, the Institute for Southern Studies, and the program for Women's and Gender Studies.

Formally recognized in June of 2010 by the University of South Carolina Board of Trustees, The Center for Digital Humanities has now moved into its next stage of development, offering new opportunities in the research and teaching of digital humanities to an expanding circle of partners on the Columbia campus and throughout the University system.

Please feel free to explore the virtual Center and to contact me should you have any questions.

Sincerely,

David Lee Miller

Founding Member and Director, Center for Digital Humanities
Carolina Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Mission

The Center for Digital Humanities at South Carolina supports innovations in the use of digital technology for research, teaching, and public outreach in the Humanities and related disciplines. Our primary mission is to collaborate with faculty in developing research proposals for external funding, but we supplement this core objective with efforts to promote awareness of digital technologies among humanities faculty, to initiate courses and curricula in the digital humanities, and to provide students with opportunities for hands-on experience working with sponsored projects.

Goals

The Center's goals stem directly from its mission. We believe that the Humanities are entering a period of major innovation, and our goal is to help place faculty at South Carolina in the forefront of disciplinary change. We seek as well to provide graduate and undergraduate students in a wide range of fields with skills they will need in an era of rapid technological growth. To achieve these goals, the Center is dedicated to creating the technical and human infrastructure necessary to support interdisciplinary collaboration on digital research projects.

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