About The Digital Humanities Initiative
A Portal to the Digital Humanities at UVA
In the humanities, we study human culture and the human record. Digital and computational methods can supplement established modes of inquiry and critique in humanities disciplines, thus generating new understandings of the materials in our various subject domains. Learn More
The Graduate Certificate Program in Digital Humanities
A Flexible Path to Success
The DH Certificate is more than a curriculum; it’s a dynamic community and a network of resources. Students in the program receive individual advising, participate in a vibrant series of speaker events and workshops, and work within UVA’s world-class DH ecosystem of experts to develop customized technical practices that support their disciplinary goals.
The program encourages students to focus on the intellectual priorities of their home departments, using digital and computational modes to enhance—rather than compete with—their humanities scholarship. Since our founding in 2018, we have enrolled students from a dozen departments, and our requirements are flexibly designed to accommodate diverse departmental requirements without slowing time to degree completion.
UVA’s DH Certificate helps students find paths to career success, whether in university teaching and research, libraries, museums, the public sector, or industry.
Technical Workshop Series
Achieve Your Scholarly Goals with Targeted Technical Learning
DHI Technical Workshops are designed for graduate students and faculty who want to integrate digital and computational methods into their scholarship. Rather than broad overviews, our workshops emphasize clear, well-paced increments that help participants move past hesitation and into active practice.
Workshops generally include guided preparation (such as software installation) and follow-up studio time, designed to help you build regular technical practice into your research. In this way, our workshops support not only the acquisition of a particular tool, but the creation of consistent, collaborative workflows that support long-term scholarship.
DHI Special Interest Groups
Peer-Driven Communities of Scholarly and Technical Practice
DH Incubators are self-organizing groups of students, faculty, and staff who gather around shared technical methods or research interests — whether in texts, images, datasets, audio, video, or virtual environments.
The DHI supports Incubators by helping surface connections. Events, workshops, courses, and resources on this website are tagged by technical practice and data type, informally connecting people with overlapping interests. Incubators grow organically, sustained by their members’ energy, while drawing strength from the larger community of digital humanities at UVA.
In addition, the DHI is responsive to emerging interests: we welcome suggestions for speakers and workshops, support mailing lists, and encourage collaborative resource pages that share established, vetted workflows with others.
Related Organizations
- DH Center
- Research Data Services
- Subject Liaisons
- Library IT
- Center for Digital Editing
- eLabs
- Humanities and AI Lab
- Research Computing
Connect with the DHI
Connect with the DHI through the Graduate DH Certificate Program, Events and Workshops, and DH Incubators. And be sure to subscribe to the DH Initiative Bulletin. This newsletter is designed to keep our broader Digital Humanities community aware of news and upcoming opportunities!