{"id":3455,"date":"2012-07-06T09:34:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T14:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/college.web.unc.edu\/?p=3455"},"modified":"2024-07-02T13:30:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T13:30:36","slug":"digitalhumanitiesmellon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=3455","title":{"rendered":"Carolina Digital Humanities Initiative expanded with Mellon grant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Robert Allen (left) and Richard Marciano show a digital map of Charlotte 1911, one of the pilot projects of the Digital Innovation Lab. (photo by Dan Sears)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A $1.39 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation<\/a> will expand digital humanities in a transformative way at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including the hiring of new faculty and the support of graduate students in this emerging field.<\/p>\n

Digital humanities is an area of research, teaching and knowledge creation at the intersection of computing and humanities. It is interdisciplinary and embraces a variety of topics ranging from curating online collections to mining information from large data sets.<\/p>\n

The grant leverages significant support from UNC in creating a $5 million effort called the Carolina Digital Humanities Initiative, which will explore the application of cutting-edge digital technologies to humanities research, teaching, graduate training and public engagement.<\/p>\n

The new initiative will build on the work of the Digital Innovation Lab<\/a>, co-directed by Robert Allen, James Logan Godfrey Professor of American studies, and Richard Marciano, professor in the School of Information and Library Science. The lab was launched last summer in the College of Arts and Sciences and is affiliated with the college\u2019s American studies department. Marciano will head the initiative\u2019s infrastructure taskforce.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Mellon Foundation\u2019s support enables UNC to\u00a0stimulate innovative applications of digital technologies simultaneously at all levels of academic practice \u2014 from new models of research collaboration to new ways of engaging communities in North Carolina and across the nation as they pursue enduring questions in the humanities,\u201d said William L. Andrews, the former senior associate dean for fine arts and humanities in the college, the E. Maynard Adams Professor of English and a co-principal investigator (PI) of the grant.<\/p>\n

Among other things, the new Mellon grant will help support the following in digital humanities:<\/p>\n