Doran Larson
American Prison Writing Archive
The American Prison Writing Archive is a place where imprisoned people and prison staff can document their experience.
Digital Humanities Initiative
The Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi) creates opportunities for new interdisciplinary models and methods of collaboration between faculty and students.
Virtual Reality Research
Watch a walkthrough video of the three stages of developing in the Sacred Centers in India: Vishnupada 3D/VR temple.
Watch a video walkthrough of the Experiencing Empathy Virtual Reality, created this past summer by DHi interns who collaborated with Phyllis Breland, Chaise LaDousa, and Janet Oppedisano.
Watch a walkthrough tour of the Woodhull & Claflin VR experience developed by Skylar Havens '20 and Mike Borek '18.
Watch a brief demonstration of the multilingual, time-coded transcript video player and Virtual Reality Benshi theaters developed for the Comparative Japanese Film Archive.
DHi Research Projects
Patricia O'Neill
The Beloved Witness
A digital archive of the readings, personal documents, letters, and manuscripts of Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali.
Kyoko Omori
Comparative Japanese Film
A database of film video clips and benshi audio clips from the early twentieth century, with annotations and metadata.
Collaborative Course & Spring Break Research
Experiencing Empathy
A learning experience to explore the changing cultural landscape of New Orleans.
Thomas Wilson
The Cult of Confucius
An interactive 3D virtual temple will allow users to learn about on the history of the Cult of Confucius and various rites of passage.
John Bartle
Refugee Project
Students and faculty work together to document the daily practices, rituals, and cultural events of refugee communities through interviews.
Abhishek Amar
Sacred Centers in India
This project entails a study of Indian sacred centers - Buddhist Bodhgaya and Hindu Gaya.
Nathan Goodale
Slocan Narrows Archaeology Project
This cultural heritage and linguistics project documents the indigenous First Nations People.
Janet Oppedisano
Voices from the Water's Edge
Documents changing culture and the long-term effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans through the oral histories.
Chaise LaDousa
The Landscape of Advertising in North India
An exploration of the relationship between language and schooling in India’s rapidly changing economy.
Recent News
Digital Leadership
Digitizing the Past
Read The Story
Culture, Language, Arts & Society Scholar
Petra Elfström ’18
CLASS fellow Petra Elfström ’18 discusses her work with Associate Professor of Anthropology Nathan Goodale on the Slocan Narrows Pithouse Village in British Columbia, Canada. DHi offers three CLASS fellowships a year to students who wish to explore new interdisciplinary models and research methods.
