On October 5th, NYU Division of Libraries, Research and Instructional Technology, and the Center for the Humanities hosted the 2023 Digital Humanities Showcase to resounding applause.
Presenters spoke on histories of art, archives, and anti-imperialism. They used natural language processing (NLP) to glean patterns in chemistry papers, enthographies, and autobiographies at scale. They mapped food insecurity, built a VR museum, an AR garden, a digital Quechua library, and so much more.
We heard from our wonderful 2022 – 2023 NYU DH Seed Grant winners:
- Rosanna Flouty and Craig Kapp on Historic Fractures: Toward a Digital Future in Museum Accessibility
- Jared McCormick, Helga Tawil-Souri, Ada Petiwala on Sight Site/Cite in the Digital Middle East
- Farzad Mahootian and Guillermo Restrepo on Digitizing Chemical Humanities: Towards a Cross-Cultural History of Chemistry
- Summer Sloane-Britt, Edward J. Sullivan, Megan Kincaid, and Lizette Ayala on Arts of the Errant Americas
- David Perry and Joe Yu on n Lines and Changing: Writing the Shanghai Metro System to the End
The 2023 cohort of NYU DH Graduate Fellows also presented an array of amazing projects. We heard from:
- Alía Warsco, Dual Degree Graduate Student at Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (GSAS) and Library Science at Long Island University on Making an Accessible Catalog for the CLACS Quechua Library
- Avra Janz, Doctoral Student in Sociology (GSAS) on Excavating the Evolving Self in Autobiographies
- Charmaine Lam, Doctoral Student in History (GSAS) on Disentangling and Interpreting the Mui Tsai Experience
- Dang Weiyu, Doctoral Student in Social and Cultural Analysis (GSAS) on Searching for a “Back Door” to China: Wartime US Missions to Northwest China and a Global Frontier of Mid-century Anti-Imperialism
- Ian Lehine, Doctoral Student in Cinema Studies (Tisch) on VR Museum for Ukraine
- Jason Ahlenius, Doctoral Student in Spanish & Portuguese (GSAS) on The Archives of Virtual Slavery
- Jose Octavio Orsag, Doctoral Student in History (GSAS) on Amazonian Historical Cartography: Mapping Indigenous Territories and Colonization in the Western Amazon
- Natasha Bernstein Bunzl, Doctoral Student in Nutrition and Food Studies (Steinhardt) on Visioning Provisioning
- Salwa Hoque, Doctoral Student in Media, Culture, and Communication (Steinhardt) on Prototyping as Ethnography: Bridging Digital Humanities and Anthropology
- Sam Kellogg, Doctoral Student in Media, Culture, and Communication (Steinhardt) on Mediated Wilderness: A Visual & Cartographic History of Communications Technologies in U.S. National Parks
You can read project abstracts for all current and former Seed Grant winners and Graduate Fellows. We are so thrilled with the work they’ve accomplished and hope you’ll take the time to browse their projects, make connections, inspire your own work in digital humanities.