Digital Humanities Projects and Initiatives

Established and emerging projects at NC State span digital archives, cultural heritage visualization, multimedia publishing, data analytics, physical computing and more.

Virtual John Donne Project

Acoustic and visual models allow us to experience worship and preaching in early modern London as events unfold in real-time on particular occasions in Paul’s Churchyard, inside St. Paul’s Cathedral, and in Trinity Chapel at Lincoln’s Inn — the specific physical locations in which they originally took place.

vMLK Project

A multi-phase project in public address, rhetoric and digital heritage which recreates Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Fill Up the Jails” speech from February 1960, delivered in White Rock Baptist Church in Durham, NC.

A still from the Piers Plowman archive, reading "Piers Plowman Electronic"

Piers Plowman Electronic Archive

A collaborative open-access project that documents the rich textual tradition of the Middle English poem “Piers Plowman,” a fourteenth-century allegorical dream vision attributed to William Langland.

Mapping the Mahjar

From the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, a large-scale digital mapping of the trajectories of Lebanese immigrants across the globe.

Remembering Individuals, Remembering Communities

In collaboration with the Low Country Digital Archive, a mobile-friendly public history website highlighting Septima P. Clark, an African American civil rights educator in Charleston, SC.

Shooting Wars

An interactive exhibition designed for the Hunt Library Game Lab of documentary films and images of American military conflicts.

MESA

The Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) is a federated international community of scholars, projects, institutions, and organizations engaged in digital scholarship within the field of medieval studies.

Harambee City

An archive of materials supporting Harambee City: Congress of Racial Equality in Cleveland and the Rise of Black Power Populism by Dr. Nishani Frazier.

Networks of Architecture

A project to reassemble the geography of international cooperation and development in architecture and urban planning during post-World War II period.

Hyperrhiz

An open-access, peer-reviewed online journal specializing in new media criticism and net art.

19th-ce News Analytics

Using data mining and computer vision to exploring patterns in text and image in thousands of pages of 19th-century British newspapers.

Electronic Press

An open-access electronic series for long-form scholarly projects built partially or wholly in online format: publishing electric objects that cannot be printed.

Victoria’s Lost Pavilion

A virtual model of a garden pavilion built for Queen Victoria, extant on the grounds of Buckingham Palace Gardens from 1842-1928, which featured paintings and frescoes from notable nineteenth-century British artists.

Visual-Cultural Narrative Lines (VCNL)

An interactive, relational database, under development in the History Department, to facilitate collaborative scholarship working with visual evidence about significant socio-political changes over time.

Oxford Friars Project

The Oxford Friars project virtually reconstructs the medieval Franciscan and Dominican foundations in Oxford in the 13th to 16th centuries.

Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies

A research and outreach center for the production and dissemination of knowledge about the Lebanese Diaspora in the US and throughout the world.

Circuit Studio

An interdisciplinary, collaborative research space for Humanities and Social Sciences graduate students and faculty.

Digital Games Research Center

Research and teaching in game design and interaction, including participants from computer science and design.

Visual Narrative Cluster

Part of the Chancellor’s Faculty of Excellence Program, the Visual Narrative cluster pursues groundbreaking collaborative research at the intersections of history, art + design, image analysis and computation.

Data Science Initiative

Organizing university-wide initiatives to connect research and training opportunities for data science and analytics.