Jimmy Butts likes weird stuff. He has worked with students at Winthrop, Clemson, and most recently here at Wake Forest to get them composing in exciting, new ways—often employing digital media. He received his PhD from Clemson’s transdisciplinary program called Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design. Much of his research explores how rhetorical theory intersects with […]
The Floating City: Public Life in Venice through the Ages, a First Year Seminar taught in the History Department, was in part designed to foster digital literacy, a necessary skill in an increasingly electronic age: assessing the strengths and weaknesses of various software, shaping projects and communication to the digital form, and developing a set of […]
Rulers of Venice is a digital project with two components: a searchable database of the election registers of the medieval Venetian republic and an interactive XML e-book of interpretative essays published by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Both the database and the e-book have gone through multiple updates and changes, many […]
Monique is interested in DH both as a research tool and in its potential applications in the classroom. Since 2000, she has been part of the Rulers of Venice team (www.rulersofvenice.org), an on-line searchable database of the election registers of the medieval Venetian Republic, and she has served as the principal project editor since 2010. […]
David Phillips received Mellon Foundation funds through the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI), based at Duke University, as part of Integrating Humanities across National Boundaries: The Promise of CHCI. The CHCI launched two projects as part of this grant. One was Humanities for the Environment, with research centers, or observatories, in North America, Australia, and Europe. The project […]
The first annual Digital Innovation and Scholarship in the Social Sciences and Humanities Symposium (DISSH) will be held at East Carolina University on March 18, 2015 from 2:00–6:00 p.m.
According to the DISSH website:
This symposium explores the opportunities inherent in digital projects for […]
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