Established in 2023, the Library’s DH Center (DHC) brings together UVA’s eminent practitioners in digital humanities (DH), the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH,) and the Scholars’ Lab — for a total of 16 full-time experts in a richly interdisciplinary repertoire. Complementing the specialist librarians and other research wings of the Library, we support members of the University and community, regardless of status, field, or subject area, to pursue their digital and experimental research and pedagogical projects.
The DHC is located on the third floor of Shannon Library facing the chapel, where you can visit both IATH and Scholars’ Lab to seek mentoring, consultations, collaboration, project incubation, fellowships, and more. Tuesday through Thursday are our most active hours during fall and spring academic terms, and scheduling appointments beforehand is encouraged in order to ensure staff and equipment availability.
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH)
Since 1992, IATH has collaborated with humanities researchers on a remarkable range of transformative, original research projects during selective fellowships, and continues to support internal and external initiatives in digital scholarship in many disciplines. A Resident and Associate Fellowship program offers fellowships to UVA faculty doing humanities research, providing consulting, technical support, applications development, project development, and grant planning. IATH cultivates partnerships and technological experimentation with libraries, publishers, information technology companies, scholarly organizations, independent scholars, and community organizations for transformative applications of computing to studies of diverse cultural heritage.
Scholars’ Lab
Since 2006, the Scholars' Lab has served as the Library’s interdisciplinary research lab for exploring the intersections of technology and culture, offering mentoring, consultation, and collaboration in four areas: digital humanities project design and pedagogy; geospatial data collection and analysis; critical making; and approaches to capturing, preserving, animating, and visualizing 3D cultural heritage data and other research information. Scholars' Lab particularly focuses on creating and empowering scholars (students, faculty, or otherwise) as digital method practitioners in their own right, and prioritizes support for pushing scholarly boundaries and advancing social justice through creative, computational research. Scholars' Lab administers research fellowships including the renowned, longstanding graduate DH Praxis Program, and connects UVA faculty and students to external opportunities through staff leadership in international scholarly organizations.
Scholars' Lab hosts public events, interactive exhibits, and community spaces, including the Makerspace, VR development workspace, and high-end software and equipment for digital, textual, and spatial scholarship.
