Digital Sources

Features digital projects, initiatives, and conferences previously developed or co-developed by the Transborder Digital Humanities team. These works reflect years of collaborative scholarship across institutions, disciplines, and communities, and represent the intellectual groundwork that informs the current TBDH initiative.

Many of these projects were created in partnership with other scholars, artists, technologists, and community organizations, centering local, cross-border, transnational or global perspectives and methodologies. They serve not only as examples of innovative digital humanities practice, but also as valuable resources for researchers, educators, and students working at the intersection of technology, culture, and social justice.

We invite you to explore this  work as a source of inspiration, methodological guidance, and scholarly citation.

Borderlands Archives Cartography. BAC, is a project that features a digital map showcasing the locations of U.S.-Mexico border newspapers. It records the geographic location of periodicals published from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. BAC locates, maps, and facilitates access to borderland periodicals, allowing to visualize newspapers from both sides of the border to better understand the dynamics of the region and its communities before and after it became a division line. Founded by Dr. Maira E. Álvarez and Dr. Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla in 2017.

Torn Apart / Separados. A rapidly deployed critical data & visualization intervention in the USA’s 2018 “Zero Tolerance Policy” for asylum seekers at the US Ports of Entry and the humanitarian crisis that has followed. Dr. Maira E. Álvarez and Dr. Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla are part of the TA team.

United Fronteras. A digital record that compiles a collection of active and inactive works that leverage digital components to document the borderlands from various perspectives, including literature, archives, art, oral histories, music, from pre-colonial times to the twenty-first century. TBDH’s Co-Principal Investigators Dr. Carolina Alonso, Dr. Maira E. Álvarez, Dr. Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla, and Dr. Laura Gonzales are part of the UF team.

African Digital Humanities. Based at the University of Kansas, African DH@KU presents opportunities for engaged discussions that center on African perspectives and projects in the digital humanities. Our programs include an annual African Digital Humanities Symposium and regular Digital Indabas and events that explore the intersection of traditional humanistic inquiry in Africa and digital media. Brian Rosenblum co-leads this initiative with KU professor of African & African-American Studies James Yékú.

Institute for Globally Engaged Librarianship. Through sustainable and mutually beneficial partnerships with academic libraries worldwide, KU’s Institute for Globally Engaged Librarianship (IGEL) promotes knowledge exchange, professional development, innovation, and collaborative research. These efforts enhance academic libraries’ collective ability to address global challenges. Brian Rosenblum serves as Director of IGEL.

Public Digital Humanities Institute (PDHI). The PDHI brought together teams of academics and community partners from 12 community-based digital humanities projects for an intensive week of digital humanities training and discussion at the University of Kansas (KU) in Lawrence, Kansas. The PDHI was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities through the Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program. It was organized and carried out by KU’s Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities (IDRH), under the direction of co-PI’s Brian Rosenblum and professor of communication studies Dave Tell.

The Humanities Mapping Working group is part of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and TBDH. We welcome people interested in mapping at any level and from any professional background. We have a database of readings and projects that the participants are welcome to contribute to and we select a reading and/or a project to discuss once a month for an hour. Participants are invited to lead the discussion if they are interested in the readings or topics selected, or if they want to discuss their own work. The conveners are willing and able to pick meeting materials and facilitate discussion if no other participant has volunteered.

We meet multiple times during the year with the goal to create a community of support around the mapping inquiries and work each of us are doing or are interested in learning.  The main goal of this group is to stabilize a regular meeting infrastructure and welcome additional participants to learn and share expertise related to all aspects of the digital mapping project life cycle. Among the group there are faculty, library professionals, students from different disciplines and institutions. Our primary goals are:

  1. Aim to provide feedback of the work we share by discussing different mapping tools, practices, resources, models of labor and credit, collaboration, project management, data access and structure, and more. 
  2. Foster an understanding of inter, trans, and multi disciplinary perspectives to mapping in the humanities, where we share our expertise through our meeting conversations.
  3. Build a database of resources that include group readings and projects of interest that others can reference and/or share. Additional sources that are referenced during the working group are also included.

If you have any questions or would like to be part of the reading group, please contact Dr. Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla (sylvia.fernandez@utsa.edu) and Dr. Bryan Winston (bryan.winston@princeton.edu).