New Space Reception: Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
After twelve years in McKeldin Library, staff expansion and research growth called for a more robust space in 2012. We transformed a significantly larger, sunlit, open-floor space in Hornbake Library, neighboring Nonprint Media Services, and the iSchool, into the new digital humanities hub. On September 5th, 2012 MITH invited friends and colleagues present and past to help us celebrate our move to a new space. Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) Dan Cohen gave the keynote, highlighting MITH's international work and membership in the "DH culture of nice." University of Maryland Vice President for Research Pat O'Shea, College of Arts and Humanities Dean Bonnie Thornton Dill, and Dean of Libraries Pat Steele also spoke. Thanks to everyone who joined us in person and in spirit! Watch Video on Vimeo View Reception Invitation Photos by Travis Brown Photos by Rachel Donahue
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Cohen is a Professor of History in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University and the Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. His personal research has been in digital humanities, broadly construed: the impact of new media and technology on all aspects of knowledge, from the nature of digitized resources to twenty-first century research techniques and software tools to the changing landscape of communication and publication. He's the co-author of Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), and the author of Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007). He has published articles and book chapters on new media, the history of mathematics and religion, the teaching of history, scholarly communication, and the future of the humanities in a digital age in journals such as the Journal of American History, Victorian Studies, and Rethinking History. Cohen's work and thought has been featured frequently in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Times Higher Education.
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