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Digital Humanities

This guide provides an introduction to digital humanities (DH) theory and practice and an overview of DH methods, tools, and resources.

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On Campus at UCI

There are many groups on campus who are actively engaged in areas of overlap with DH. Not everything on this list is exactly "DH" per se, but may be of interest.

Digital Humanities Exchange
A group based out of the Humanities Commons that hosts workshops, discussions, and other events

Humanities Center
"UCI’s Humanities Commons explores the scope of human experience by supporting faculty and graduate student scholarship, engaging in collaborative projects, and providing opportunities for campus-public partnerships."

UC Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI)
"Facilitates experimental, interdisciplinary humanities scholarship through partnerships, research initiatives, and competitive grants."

Evoke Lab and Studio
"We start with an eye toward social issues and concerns, and integrate social theory, art, compute science, and design to create new technologies and artifacts that evoke thought, debate, discussion, and consideration of a more harmonious mediated world."

Critical Theory Institute

"The Critical Theory Institute (CTI) is an interdisciplinary, collaborative research group from various departments in the Humanities and Social Sciences."

Center for Ethnography

" the Center for Ethnography has worked to develop at the University of California, Irvine, series of sustained and diverse theoretical and methodological conversations across disciplines, academic and applied, both to probe the state of ethnographic practice and to influence the current changes in how ethnography is conducted, reported, received, and taught."

Professional Organizations

Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO)
A parent organization at the international level for regional and national DH societies and associations

Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH)
"Cultivating and strengthening the field of digital humanities, and providing guidance and support to those entering the field"

Museum Computer Network

"MCN envisions a world in which all museums are empowered digitally to achieve their missions."

Humanities Commons

A network and repository for those in the humanities.

Learning Opportunities

Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI)
The Digital Humanities Summer Institute provides an ideal environment for discussing and learning about new computing technologies and how they are influencing teaching, research, dissemination, creation, and preservation in different disciplines, via a community-based approach.

Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS)
An annual training event which usually takes place in July at the University of Oxford.

Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching
A week-long summer session held in the United States.

NEH Office of Digital Humanities Institutes
The NEH program Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities funds workshops and institutes on various topics in the digital humanities. For most institutes, attendance is free and includes reimbursement for travel and lodging.

Programming Historian
Publishes novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate research and teaching.

Funding Sources

ACLS Digital Extension Grants
This program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation -Digital Information Technology Grants
Grants awarded focus on these three areas:
1) Data and Computational Research 2) Scholarly Communication 3) Universal Access to Knowledge

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants
Access the Foundation's grants database, guidelines, and grantee portal

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Grants
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