Digital humanities explores the relationship between technology and culture.
DH scholars use statistical methods to analyze patterns across large collections of images, texts and documents.
They digitize and preserve the cultural record, and create dynamic, interactive experiences around unique manuscripts and artifacts.
They share their research with the public through podcasts, websites, and social media.
And they apply theories from fields like philosophy, literary studies, and history to better understand digital media and emerging technologies that are reshaping our world.
What can I study and make?
DH core courses lay the foundation for you to express your ideas and research through innovative formats like:
- digital exhibits
- timelines
- storymaps
- VR
- multimedia essays
- podcasts
- audiobooks
- data visualizations
- video games
- websites
- webcomics
- AI
- social media analysis
Learn more about recent projects our students and faculty have done!
How can I combine the minor?
DH pairs well with majors like cinema studies, data science, environmental studies, women’s, gender and sexuality studies, journalism, philosophy, English, and history. Check out all the courses you can take as electives!
Where can the minor take me?
DH minors go on to graduate study in the humanities, communication studies, and information sciences, as well as careers in museums, libraries, social media management, digital content development, data analysis, web design and beyond. Our jobs and internships page is a great place to explore opportunities.
Women Workers in the News
History major and DH minor Maria Shimota mined historic newspapers to capture popular attitudes towards women workers in Oregon during and between the World Wars. Her spring 2023 capstone project, “Changing Attitudes Towards Women’s Labor: How Newspapers Reflect Popular Ideologies,” is published as a static website that Maria built using GitHub pages. The front page is a multimedia essay featuring visualizations of trends across roughly 100 newspaper articles that Maria painstakingly curated for analysis in VoyantTools.
As Maria shows, newspapers helped to reinforce
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The Lyon Archive
Map of Victorian London with points of interest from the Soundscape Map of The Lyon Archive.
The Lyon Archive is a collaborative project between UO Professor Heidi Kaufman, her students, and members of the Anglo-Jewish Lyon family, which has members living in Jamaica, England, Australia and the U.S. As avid fiction writers, editors, diarists, scholars, philanthropists, and scholars, they have created and gathered a multitude of documents, which are now showcased in the Lyon Archive. These historical artifacts offer the public a glimpse into fragmentary life narratives through maps, movies,
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Indigenous Protocol and AI
Kamapuaʻa/kalo. Image by Kūpono Duncan, 2019 for the position paper.
Anyone interested in the Digital Humanities will sooner or later come across AI. Perhaps you’ve already played around and asked an AI program to compose a Valentine’s poem for you, or a painting of John Oliver marrying a cabbage. But have you ever thought about how Indigenous methodologies can inform our practices with AI?
UO’s Professor Ashley Cordes (Coquille; affiliated with Indigenous Studies; English; DH; Environmental Studies) has! In “Gifts of Dentalium and Fire: Entwining Trust and Care with AI,”
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