About the Group
The Digital Humanities Discovery Group, sponsored by William & Mary Libraries, is an interdisciplinary research group interested in widening awareness and stimulating new conversations around the broadly defined field of Digital Humanities as well as generating future collaborations in research and teaching at William & Mary. This group welcomes faculty, professional faculty, staff, and students of William & Mary.
The group’s mission is to bring faculty, professional faculty, staff, and students interested in the Digital Humanities together to foster conversation, learn from each other’s successes and failures, open possibilities for collaboration, and build a scholarly community at William & Mary.
We welcome those with any level of digital humanities or digital scholarship experience. For those already engaged in this work, please come and share your knowledge. For those with no prior experience, please join us on this journey of learning together. You do not have to be a humanist to be involved, as digital humanities is an interdisciplinary field that welcomes all.
Meetings could take the form of training, networking, lightning talks, roundtables, round robin sharing, reading groups, guest lectures, field trips, or conference watch parties.
If you are interested in joining please subsribe to our listserv
For questions about the group contact:
Rachel Hogan, Instruction & Research Librarian for Arts & Digital Humanities, rnhogan@wm.edu
Jennifer Putzi, W&M Libraries Faculty Scholar; Sara and Jess Cloud Professor of English & Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, jlputz@wm.edu
Listserv
For meeting invites, resource sharing, and more, please join our listserv following the instructions below.
- Send a message to sympa@lists.wm.edu from the address you want to subscribe to the list.
- In the subject line of your message, type in: subscribe "digital-humanities-discovery-group@lists.wm.edu" FirstName LastName
- Leave the message body blank.
You can also visit William & Mary's Mail List Service and then find the "digital-humanities-discovery-group" and subscribe.
Spring 2026 Schedule
All of our Spring 2026 Meetings will take place in the Cox Classroom on the ground floor of Swem Library at 1pm on Thursdays. For a hybrid option, please join our listserv for the Zoom link.
January 29th: DH Idea Incubator
For our January Meeting, we will be having a DH Idea Incubator. Come with project ideas, project in progress, or just to hear what other folks in the group are developing.
February 26th: Ongoing DH Research Presentation: Libby Eick, Videlicit
For our February Meeting, we will be hearing an ongoing research presentation from Libby Eick, a senior double-major in History and Linguistics and member of The Charting Freedom Project Lab at W&M, about how she is using Handwritten Text Recognition and LLMs in her DH project and tool, Videlicet.
March 26th: Ongoing DH Research Presentation: Robyn Schroeder, Revolutionary Transformations of William & Mary: Public History at the Seminquincentennial
For our March Meeting, we will be hearing an ongoing research presentation from Robyn Schroeder, Assistant Director of NIAHD, about her project, Revolutionary Transformations of William & Mary: Public History at the Seminquincentennial. She collaborated with the CGA on a georeferenced map for the project and was recently featured on CSPAN.
April 23rd: TBA
We are working on something that will hopefully be fun and new in April. Check here for more details later in the semester.
Past Meetings
September 2025: Intro to DH and DHSI 2025 Lightning Talk
October 2025: DH Petting Zoo and Playground
November 2025: DH in the Classroom and DH Lab Lightning Talks