Welcome to the Humanities in a Digital World website!
This site shares news about the Humanities in a Digital World fellows and digital humanities events at USC.
Meet our 2024-2025 Fellows
Lauren Kelly, Ph.D. Candidate in History
Lauren Kelly’s research reframes a seminal event in water history of the U.S. West: the story of how Los Angeles seized water from Payahuunadü, also known as the Owens Valley.
Jessica Somers, Ph.D. Candidate in English
Jessica Somers’s dissertation assembles an archive of cultural representations of the colonial home to examine the potentiality of domestic objects to unsettle the narratives of gender, sexuality, and subjecthood foundational to British imperial mythologies.
Ann Ngoc Tran, Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies and Ethnicity
Ann Ngoc Tran’s dissertation provides a provocative history of the global Vietnamese boat refugee exodus by turning to sites of surplus and fallout across the South China Sea and the U.S. Gulf South.
2024 ITCH Symposium
Friday & Saturday, September 20 & 21
The USC Mellon Humanities in a Digital World Program and the Ahmanson Lab invite you to join the Immersive Technologies and Cultural Heritage (ITCH) Symposium. This two-day event will bring together humanities researchers working with immersive technologies to showcase innovative projects, engage in feedback, and build community. The sessions will elucidate benefits of working at the intersection of digital technologies and the liberal arts.
Participants:
“Exploring Volumetric Video Capture for Humanities Scholarship and Pedagogy”
Zack Lischer-Katz, University of Arizona
Rashida Braggs, Williams College
Bryan Carter, University of Arizona
“Recontextualizing Egypt’s Ancient Material Heritage: The ‘Return to the Tomb’ Project”
Rita Lucarelli, University of California, Berkeley
Elaine Sullivan, University of California, Santa Cruz
“Playing with Time: Great Perfection History in Virtual Reality”
Elaine Lai, Stanford University
Aftab Hafeez, Google
“Tapestry: Enhancing Engagement with Cultural Heritage through Multivocal Spatial Storytelling”
Elizabeth Lee, CyArk
John Ristevski, CyArk
“Facilitating Access to Hidden Collections with 3D Models”
Harper Tooch, Washington University, St. Louis
Sarah Swanz, Washington University, St. Louis
“Using 3D Data to Document and Exhibit Cultural Heritage”
Doug Daniels, University of California, Los Angeles Data Science Center
Bianca Badajos, University of California, Los Angeles Data Science Center
Kelly Nguyen, University of California, Los Angeles Data Science Center
“‘Slow Viewing’ and Collective Meaning Making in Virtual Angkor: A Workshop and Discussion on Virtual Reality Design and Teaching”
Cindy Nguyen, University of California, Los Angeles
Tom Chandler, Monash University
“Digital Innovation for the Historical Reconstruction of the Basin of Mexico”
Edgar Allan Lara Paredes, Museo Virtual Anáhuac
Carlos Francisco López Ramírez, Museo Virtual Anáhuac
Jesús Gerardo Medina Sánchez, Museo Virtual Anáhuac
Featured Projects
Booksnake
Booksnake lets you explore digitized archival items in the real world. Just aim your iPhone or iPad at a flat surface, tap the screen to place your item, and move to explore.
Capitalism’s erasure of Tayrona culture in 21st-Century Colombia
Will Young, Doctoral Candidate in Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture, USC
Using Virtual Reality to Explore 15th-Century Illuminated Manuscripts
USC Dornsife’s Sabina Zonno and Lynn Dodd receive a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to develop an immersive experience around a Renaissance-era manuscript.
Banner image: Will Young, “Digitizing Deleción de Tayrona (DSCO3479),” 2024.
