Digital Humanities at Northwestern
Along with Northwestern University Libraries, a number of groups on campus collaborate on digital humanities projects with NU faculty and students. Additionally, there are reading groups, workshops, and other initiatives that make up the DH community at NU.
Support + Collaboration
- Media and Design Studio
A unit in Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences that provides faculty and students access to tools, resources and expertise to advance new and critical modes of learning and teaching.
- Northwestern IT
A unit that supports faculty in their primary roles as instructors and researchers, providing access to educational technologies and various multimedia resources.
Events + Opportunities
- Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
An institute that promotes expansive, interdisciplinary discussion and debate and cultivates ideas that transform into cutting-edge research and dynamic courses.
- Chabraja Center for Historical Studies
Promotes broad scholarly engagement with historical materials and hosts lectures, colloquia, and other campus events, as well as funding for graduate students working on digital projects.
Centers + Initiatives
- Artifical Intelligence at Northwestern
A community of researchers, educators, and students across Northwestern advancing artificial intelligence in theory and practice.
- Center for Human-Computer Interaction + Design
A collaboration between McCormick School of Engineering and the School of Communication, HCI+D brings together researchers and practitioners from across the University to study, design, and develop the future of human and computer interaction at home, work, and play. The center draws upon Northwestern’s pioneering leadership in interaction and design research, and supports researchers in their pursuit of new interaction paradigms to support a collaborative, sustainable, and equitable society.
- Knight Lab
A community of designers, developers, students, and educators working on experiments designed to push journalism into new spaces