The Humanities Digital Workshop is a support service for developing long-term faculty digital projects in Arts & Sciences. The HDW is part of the infrastructure at Washington University for digital scholarship in the humanities — what's often termed the digital humanities or humanities computing — that includes Olin Library's Digital Library Services, GIS@Wustl, the Center for Emperical Research in the Law, and the American Culture Studies program.
The HDW promotes the university's activities in both of its basic vectors: in research, by facilitating projects that require or benefit from data collection and analysis, or electronic publication; in teaching, by bringing students into the research process in concrete ways that can be relatively rare in the humanities. (It's one of the happy facts about digital projects that they're often intensely collaborative.)
To learn more about what we do, see the capabilities page. To see a list of our current and past projects, see our projects page. If you're a student looking for ways to pariticpate, see the fellowships page, or, alternately, feel free to contact the faculty leads or us in the HDW to talk about a project that captures your interest. If you're a faculty member who'd like to talk about working with us, the best method is to stop by or call; see our contact info below.
Perry Trolard: Assistant Director, HDW. Perry is the HDW contact. He has an MLIS from the U of Illinois, where he studied with humanities computing theoreticians and practioners of note. Call him at 5-8806, email at ptrolard at wustl dot edu, or visit in Eads 004.
Steve Pentecost: Humanities Computing Specialist, HDW. Steve has an MA in English from Washington University, and a wealth of experience in corporate software development. Call him at 5-6150, email at spenteco at wustl dot edu, or visit in Eads 007.
Cecilia Razak: Post-baccalaureate Fellow, HDW. Cecilia holds a newly minted BA in English from Washington University (2009), during the earning of which she impressed us so much that we begged her to stay. Email her at crrazak at gmail dot com, or visit in Eads 007.
Ken Keller: Director, Arts & Sciences Computing; Co-director, HDW. Ken oversees Perry and Steve, which, only when compared to rescuing lost emails, he finds pleasant enough.
Joe Loewenstein: Director, Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities; Professor of English & Comp Lit; Co-director, HDW. Though Joe directs the Spenser project, he's not jealous of Perry and Steve's time, and promotes the HDW to whoever can benefit.
The HDW is a tremendous beneficiary of Open Source software, & likes to return the favor when it can: