Digital Humanities

A center within UMD's College of Arts and Humanities, MITH is an interdisciplinary group of researchers who collaboratively advance the study of cultural heritage and arts using computational technologies while also training the insights and approaches of the humanities on the computational technologies that shape our world. MITH also teaches courses and hosts events for campus and public communities. Please contact our colleagues at MITH for more in-depth DH expertise and project help.

The Black Communications & Technology Lab, hosted at UMD's Department of Communication, enlivens a new generation of scholars with interests in Black Studies and Cultural Production, Digital Humanities, Critical Race work, and more. BCaT introduces undergraduates to digital research through workshops and coursework, helps students navigate graduate research, and create a mentoring network for students and faculty to navigate Black digital studies within the humanities, focusing on collaboration across generations.

UMD's AADHum is committed to broadening the landscape of Black digital humanities, while also highlighting the numerous places where Black DH intersects with electronic literature, digital storytelling, computational poetics, and public humanities more generally. Through boundary-pushing research collaborations with leading scholars in the arts and humanities, AADHum serves as a vibrant center for Black DH research both in the greater Washington, DC area as well as nationally and internationally.

Located in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, UMD's Indigenous Futures Lab is a hub of Indigenous research, evaluation, and relationship-building, where Indigenous knowledges are centered to build futures of co-flourishing.

From UMD's College of Information, CAFe promotes the care and use of digital collections and data over time, through innovative research, education, experiential learning, and partnership-building.