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NEH awards University of Richmond a grant for research in digital humanities

September 22, 2008

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the University of Richmond a grant of $19, 942 for research and an academic conference on the use of data visualization in the humanities.

The grant to Andrew Torget, director of the university's Digital Scholarship Lab, will fund a two-day workshop this fall where experts will discuss limitations preventing humanities scholars from using visualization techniques in their research. It also will fund initial experiments in creating new tools or Web sites about overcoming obstacles to data visualization.

Digital technologies offer new methods of research already being applied by historians at Richmond.

Torget will collaborate with project co-leader James W. Wilson of James Madison University and an advisory board of historians, geographers and technologists from various institutions. Workshop results will be presented as a white paper this spring.