Getting Started
This page brings together resources for faculty and students who are beginning their DH journey. Whether you are interested in incorporating DH methods into your teaching, research, or creative practice, there is an introductory resource to get you started.
Introductions and Sample Assignments
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Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models and Experiments
A peer-reviewed, curated collection of reusable and remixable resources for teaching and research. Edited by Rebecca Frost David, Matthew K. Gold, Katherine D. Harris, and Jentery Sayers, with contributions from dozens of practitioners. -
Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook
A guide to the essential steps needed to plan a digital project. This peer-reviewed open resource, created by two DH practitioners, aims to fill the gap between platform-specific tutorials and disciplinary discourse in digital humanities. Includes a number of suggested assignments for the classroom -
The Data-Sitters Club
A fun and colloquial guide to DH computational text analysis. -
DevDH.org: Development for the Digital Humanities
Providing the intellectual and strategic scaffolding to aid DH researchers successfully complete their research endeavors. This site contains a number of lectures intended for humanists planning their first digital project. -
Textual Data and Digital Texts in the Undergraduate Classroom, Pedagogical AnthologyAn open-access publication of pedagogical materials created by the participants in the NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities, 2018-2019.
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Programming HistorianNot just for historians! Accessible and practical guides to a wide variety of DH tools.
Digital Humanities Training and Workshops
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Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium EventsThe Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) is a national consortium of digital ethnic studies practitioners led by Roopika Risam (Salem State University), Sonya Donaldson (New Jersey City University), Jamila Moore Pewu (California State University, Fullerton), Toniesha Taylor (Texas Southern University), and Keja Valens (Salem State University). Their 2022-23 events include a reading group and speaker series.
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Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI)A time of intensive coursework, seminars, as well as lectures, participants at DHSI share ideas and methods, and develop expertise in using advanced technologies. Every summer, the institute brings together faculty, staff, and students from the Arts, Humanities, Library, and Archives communities as well as independent scholars and participants from areas beyond.
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Dream LabDream Lab is a week-long digital humanities training opportunity hosted at the University of Pennsylvania and designed to help humanists become more confident and thoughtful users, creators and critics of digital technology.
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Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching (HILT)HILT is a 5-day training institute that includes keynotes, ignite talks, and local cultural heritage excursions for researchers, students, early career scholars and cultural heritage professionals who seek to learn more about Digital Humanities theory, practice, and culture.
Debates in the Digital Humanities
Looking to dive right into the scholarly issues surrounding DH? the Debates in Digital Humanities series is a great source to track the evolution of the field.
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The Digital Black Atlantic
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ISBN: 978-1-4529-6532-1Publication Date: 2021This timely collection of essays about the relationship between digital humanities and Black Atlantic studies offers critical insights into race, migration, media, and scholarly knowledge production. It spans the African diaspora’s range—from Africa to North America, Europe, and the Caribbean—while its essayists span academic fields—from history and literary studies to musicology, game studies, and library and information studies. -
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019
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ISBN: 9781452963785Publication Date: 2019Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 collects a broad array of important, thought-provoking perspectives on the field’s many sides. With a wide range of subjects including gender-based assumptions made by algorithms, the place of the digital humanities within art history, and data-based methods for exhuming forgotten histories, it assembles a who’s who of the field in more than thirty impactful essays. -
Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities
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ISBN: 9781452963792Publication Date: 2019Can the digital humanities complicate the basic assumptions of tech culture, or will this body of scholarship and practices simply reinforce preexisting biases? Bodies of Information addresses this question by assembling a varied group of leading voices, showcasing feminist contributions to topics including ubiquitous computing, game studies, new materialisms, and cultural phenomena like hashtag activism, hacktivism, and campaigns against online misogyny.
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Earlier volumes in the seriesDebates in the Digital Humanities has been published since 2012 - use the link above to see the entire series.