Transborder
Digital
Humanities
Dedicated to fostering collaboration across borders to promote innovative scholarship.
About Us
The Transborder Digital Humanities (TBDH) initiative is a Mellon Foundation-funded project that fosters community-engaged research and collaboration on transborder and borderlands cultures. We focus on the U.S.-Mexico border and transborder experiences across the Americas. TBDH supports scholars at all levels–especially first-generation and international researchers–through mentorship, community building, engagement of digital resources, and public scholarship. Our work is rooted in community-engaged critical border studies, ethnic and race studies, heritage language and translingual studies, gender and sexuality studies, and digital and public humanities.
By bringing together interdisciplinary researchers, educators, and community partners, TBDH seeks to expand ethical and responsible approaches to representing border stories in the digital cultural record. Our work is grounded in a commitment to social justice, inclusion, and community collaboration. Our goal is to ensure border narratives are represented with care, accuracy, and respect for the lived experiences of those who navigate borderlands, as well as for those who are not familiar with the borderlands.
We acknowledge that the TBDH group is operating on ancestral and ceremonial territories of Indigenous peoples.
As we engage in transborder work, we honor and respect the enduring relationships that Indigenous peoples maintain with their lands and communities. We commit to listening, learning, and working towards justice and reconciliation in our efforts to depict contemporary and past experiences of what are now borderlands. We honor the experiences of the original stewards of this land and acknowledge the ongoing impacts of colonization.
We recognize the work that has been done on Native Land to expand the understanding of borderlands and Indigenous communities across the world.