Digital Humanities

Visualizing the Past

What to do with all the data we have collected? We are able to display the results of our historical research in innovative digital ways, including interactive maps, data visualizations and interactive timelines. This work is open source and freely available, and we hope that it will offer an opportunity to extend and enhance the scholarly conversations about the collected research material.

We use the Omeka content management system to store and display our work, and

Preliminary work on a Neatline map visualizing Theodore Davis’s excavations in the Valley of the Kings is here. It’s currently a work in progress so watch this space as we create digital exhibits for each of the tombs Davis discovered, and link this material with related contemporary correspondence, diaries and other historical ephemera.

‘Golden Age’ of Egyptian Archaeology

My initial work with Emma Andrews’ diaries has expanded to include archival material for institutional and private collections in the US and Europe related to egyptology in the so-called ‘Golden Age’ at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. The aim of this work is to create a digital repository of this material, which will be freely available for research and analysis.

Digital Humanities Internships

Newbook Digital Texts is an innovative digital humanities publishing house re-imagining and restructuring traditional academic research, publication, and education. Over six years, more than 100 University of Washington undergraduate interns and several graduate assistants have collaborated with faculty on projects ranging from Ottoman and Georgian poetry to nineteenth-century travel journals from Iraq and Egypt. We promote systemic change in undergraduate education, technological innovation, and the preservation of at-risk historical documents. Our work is international, open source, and open access. We are devoted to blending the traditional values of the humanities with the development of technological competency, effective communication skills, and the ability to work in a team-based environment, which has made our graduates unusually attractive to prospective employers.