Grounds for Celebration of the Digital Humanities Community

The University of Virginia breeds innovative leaders in digital humanities research and scholarship, leadership which was on full display in Brooks Hall on May 7. Billed as a "digital humanities celebration," the event drew about 50 attendees and 16 showcase projects. UVA graduate students, faculty, and staff gathered to feast on a dinner of Caribbean food, to enjoy libations, and to share DH projects in progress during the last academic year. 

Those presenting DH projects included 2018-2019 Praxis Program fellows, Digital Humanities Fellows, and faculty and staff from around the University. Rennie Mapp, administrative director of the DH Certificate program, said the mixer served as both a celebration of the accomplishments of DH graduate students and an opportunity for graduate students in earlier stages of their graduate programs to learn more about digital humanities research and programmatic opportunities on Grounds. Christian Howard was noted as the first UVA graduate student to successfully complete the requirements for the DH Certificate; she will receive her PhD in English later this month and has started a digital humanities postdoctoral fellowship at Bucknell University. 

DH@UVA is grateful to the following sponsors of this event: The Office of the Provost, UVA Arts & Sciences, and the UVA Dean of Libraries