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This post is a part of an ongoing series of publications featuring the reflections of students in the ECDS Digital Scholarship Internship Program and their experiences in teaching and research in digital scholarship. By Nathalie Angel   This past year I had the pleasure to support the Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation (JHR) during my time at the […]

The video profile of a Creek language revivalist trying to keep an indigenous language alive is newly available to watch online on the Southern Spaces website, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS). The documentary, “Hearing the Call: The Spiritual and Cultural Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey,” is the collaborative […]

Staff and students from the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) will be heading to Canada in June to teach and learn at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), an annual gathering of university faculty, staff, students, and scholars about trends in technology, teaching, and academic research hosted by the University of Victoria. ECDS Training Specialist and Special […]

Emory University has been awarded a grant of $300,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for use by the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) to fund a new initiative allowing researchers at Emory, across the United States, and abroad to update and expand the renowned website Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database. The new project, […]

By Steve Bransford Oakland Cemetery is a microcosm of Atlanta history. Examining the lives of individuals buried at the downtown site provides a window onto the families, institutions, and social forces that have shaped Georgia’s capital since the cemetery opened in 1850. There are some well-known individuals buried at Oakland — author Margaret Mitchell, Mayor […]

Access to archival materials is being extended onto laptops and into classrooms through the open source software Readux, developed by technologists at Emory University for use in research, pedagogy, publishing, and public scholarship. Anyone can log into the Readux website using Google, GitHub, Facebook, or Twitter credentials, then sit back and read digitized collections, add […]