Advancing Digital Humanities Programs

FAIN: AA-295730-24

Ramapo College of New Jersey (Mahwah, NJ 07430-1623)
Sarah Elizabeth Koenig (Project Director: May 2023 to present)

A three-year project to advance digital humanities initiatives through faculty and curriculum development. 

Ramapo College of New Jersey proposes to advance its digital humanities (DH) initiatives to revitalize the College’s humanities programs and enhance humanities education across the College and in the surrounding community. Faculty fellows will design and implement innovative digital humanities projects in every humanities major so that all humanities students graduate with an understanding of DH and with experience working with at least one DH tool. Yearly workshops for faculty, community partners, and local high school students will expand the reach of Ramapo’s DH initiatives, creating opportunities for Ramapo College undergraduates to work on public-facing community DH projects. Finally, the revision of a required general education humanities course to include a DH project will ensure that all Ramapo College undergraduates engage with DH, increasing their digital literacy and deepening their understanding of how the humanities impact the wider world.