About the Group
The Digital Humanities Discovery Group, sponsored by William & Mary Libraries, is a community of practice 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, ongoing research presentations, roundtables, open forums, reading groups, guest lectures, field trips, or conference watch parties.
If you are interested in joining, please subscribe to our listserv.
For questions about the group contact:
Rachel Hogan, Instruction & Research Librarian for Arts & Digital Humanities, rnhogan@wm.edu
Jennifer Putzi, 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.
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- 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.
Fall 2026 Schedule
This fall we have hybrid meetings on the following Wednesdays from 3:00 - 4:30 pm in the Cox Classroom of Swem Library. To request a zoom link for any of our meetings email rnhogan@wm.edu.
September 9th: Fall Welcome and DHSI Sharing
Join us for our first meeting of the new semester as we discuss plans for the fall and hear from the most recent attendees of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute.
October 14th: Dr. Robert K. Nelson, American Panorama: An Atlas of US History
Join us for an ongoing research presentation by Dr. Robert K. Nelson from the University of Richmond. Dr. Nelson will be presenting on his project, American Panorama which is a historical atlas of the United States for the twenty-first century. It combines cutting-edge research with innovative interactive mapping techniques, designed to appeal to anyone with an interest in American history or a love of maps. It also includes the popular and award-winning digital humanities project, Mapping Inequality. This presentation will be followed by a related hands-on skills learning workshop.
November 11th: Dr. Iyabo F. Osiapem, Linguistic Atlas of the Greater Caribbean
Join us for an ongoing research presentation by Dr. Iyabo F. Osiapem, Teaching Professor of Africana Studies and Linguistics and Co-Director of WMSURE. Dr Osiapem will be presenting on the Linguistic Atlas of the Greater Caribbean, a collaboration between William & Mary and The University of the West Indies at Cave Hill Barbados. It is envisioned as a digital atlas representing all dialect/language communities of the region. The result of the project will be an online repository of Caribbean vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar that will allow users of the LAC to both visualize and hear the everyday vocabulary of the region. This presentation will be followed by a related hands-on skills learning workshop.
December 2nd: GitHub Pages for Websites & Digital Portfolios
Join us to learn about replicable low-code templates for creating websites in GitHub pages. We will be highlighting a template for creating a digital portfolio to highlight your research, teaching, and projects. This presentation will be followed by a hands-on skills building workshop.
Past Meetings
April 2026: Ongoing DH Research Presentation: Molly Swetnam-Burland, Liber Memorialis
February 2026: Ongoing DH Research Presentation: Libby Eick, Videlicit
January 2026: DH Idea Incubator
November 2025: DH in the Classroom and DH Lab Lightning Talks
October 2025: DH Petting Zoo and Playground
September 2025: Intro to DH and DHSI 2025 Lightning Talk