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For more information about the University of Cincinnati’s Digital Scholarship Center or the Digital Humanities program, please contact us via email, phone, or visit us in person at the Walter C. Langsam Library.

Walter C. Langsam Library
460 Langsam Library
Cincinnati, Ohio

Phone | 513.556.1417

About the Digital Scholarship Center

The University of Cincinnati's Digital Scholarship Center, located in the Walter C. Langsam Library, is a joint venture between the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences and the University Libraries.

On campus and in the community, we serve as a catalyst for hybrid forms of research and teaching, bringing together humanistic methods with technical innovations to test paradigms and to create new knowledge at the boundary between disciplines as they are conventionally imagined in humanities.

Our Research Methods

We use methods such as data visualization, computational text analysis, digitization/imaging/3D modeling, and geographic information systems (GIS), among many other approaches, to discover new dimensions of complexity and nuance in humanistic and cultural datasets that conventionally have not been studied by these digital techniques.

Work With Us!

We are located in Langsam Library 460. The UC Libraries, working in collaboration with A&S and IT@UC and the 3rd Century eLearning Initiative, received support from the Office of the Provost to create a collaborative, technology-enabled space for faculty and group work with hardware, software, and tools to support digital scholarship and pedagogy.

“The establishment of UC’s first Digital Scholarship Center will take advantage of opportunities present not only at UC, but also on national and regional levels. The Center will serve as a base to expand UC’s scale of impact in the broader DH/DS conversation by showcasing the range of existing as well as new projects and collaborations that UC faculty have developed.”

Peter Landgren, Interim Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost

James Lee, PhD

My research and teaching focus on Renaissance literature and culture (including Shakespeare and Milton) and the digital humanities. In addition to serving as the Director of the Digital Scholarship Center,I serve as the Associate Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship and Associate Dean of Libraries, University of Cincinnati Libraries.

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Erin McCabe

In 2018, I joined the Digital Scholarship Center as the Digital Scholarship Library Fellow, one of several Mellon grant funded positions supporting research on machine learning and data visualization. I work on several research teams across disciplines and acts as liaison between academic and technology units. I previously worked on data analysis projects with academic publishers at JSTOR and in reference services at the Brooklyn branch of Long Island University. I have an undergraduate degree in French from Concordia University in Montréal, and an MLIS with an advanced certificate in Digital Humanities from Pratt Institute in New York.

Lindsay Nickels

I serve as the Program Coordinator for the Digital Scholarship Center, working on multiple research projects funded by the Mellon Foundation grant. Collaborating with our many transdisciplinary research teams from across the university and partnering institutions, most of my work focuses on developing and executing innovative methodologies for text analysis and reporting findings of said analyses through various means. I hold degrees in sign language interpreting (undergraduate) and applied linguistics (graduate), with the anticipated completion of my PhD in Applied Linguistics in early 2020 (Lancaster University, UK). My personal research is situated in the field of critical discourse studies, implementing methodologies from corpus linguistics and systemic functional linguistics to study the relationship between language and power and the implications ideological discourse has on continued marginalization and inequality in society.

Ezra Edgerton

I am the Data Visualization developer for the DSC, and work on research projects funded by the Mellon Foundation award. I previously worked on designing and building custom visualizations and running natural language processing models for the DSC as a consultant. I graduated from Grinnell College in 2016 with a BA in Computer Science and Studio Art.

Kristen Burgess

I am the Operational Manager for the Digital Scholarship Center. I manage our technology and space implementation, students, and operational strategy. Prior to working with the DSC I was the Assistant Director for Research and Informatics at the UC Health Sciences Library and a National Library of Medicine Associate Fellow. I received my MLIS from the University of North Texas and my BA from Emory University.