The Data Institute for Societal Challenges hosted “Directions in Digital Humanities” in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Forum on Friday, October 13 in the Zarrow Hall Community Room. During the event, Sam Huskey, a professor of Classics and Letters in the Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences and an affiliate member of the Digital Humanities Community of Practice, presented resources he developed as a fellow in the Center for Faculty Excellence.
“I’ve built these Canvas resources to support the OU Digital Humanities Community of Practice,” Huskey said. “I was interested in creating a starting place for the community to add its own expertise. This series of modules is a place for the community to go to find information related to digital humanities.”
Resources Huskey has developed include tools for coding, data analysis and information visualization. He’s also added tips for sharing and publishing digital humanities research and scholarship, as well as suggested readings and resources.
“I’ve spent the bulk of my time over the past semester working on the suggested readings because the bibliography in this field can be pretty overwhelming,” Huskey said. “I thought it would be helpful for people to have a listing of seminal reading and key subfields of digital humanities.”
Huskey joined the University of Oklahoma in 2002 and worked as the webmaster for regional and national academic associations. A decade later we began working on the Digital Latin Library for the Society for Classical Studies.
“That’s really where everything I did started to merge into digital humanities,” Huskey said. “Over the past 10 to 12 years, really, I've turned into a digital humanist, but I've always had a leaning towards the technical side of it.”
Learn more about the DISC Digital Humanities CoP and access Huskey’s resources.
