In addition to the main campus groups highlighted in this guide, other groups do research on topics related to digital humanities concerns or work with technology that can be applied to digital humanities projects. Please visit their sites below for more details on their work and opportunities for collaboration.
UF College of Journalism and Communications
UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS)
If you have any suggestions to add to this list, please email me at tcesteban@ufl.edu.
"The overall aim of this new working group and initiative is to facilitate discussions of a critical and informed character on a broad range of issues related to what we call “Digital Africa”. While the reference to the “digital” implies a particular focus on the role that social media and the emergences of new digital technologies and innovations – including Artificial Intelligence – play in the African context, our use of the term “digital” implies a broader thematical and geographical attention. In addition to recognizing and exploring the role that numbers, data and indicators play in the many processes that various actors engage in to create new possible and virtual futures in Africa, we intend to move beyond a digital in Africa perspective. More specifically we will include a focus on the networks and mobilities of people, things, ideas, and viruses (digital as well as biological) that move out of, and to Africa – and which often are fueled and facilitated by digital innovations and social media. By creating this working group we hope to bring together faculty and students from diverse backgrounds and to facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration on a wide range of issues that are fundamental for understanding the role of Africa in a new digital age."
"UF’s Digital Worlds Institute is on the cutting edge of digital arts and sciences — both in our research initiatives and innovative approach to education. We are a recognized leader in combining arts, communications, engineering and science, with a focus on advanced media systems." You can view a list of their research and production projects on their website. For researchers interested in working with them, they offer design and production services at various rates through Digital Worlds Studios.
"The Atlas Lab at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications is a recognition that digital media has become a primary channel for our civic and commercial dialogue, and a powerful communications platform in advertising, news and public relations. Fueled by sophisticated, AI-driven digital media analysis tools, the lab provides students with invaluable, real-world experience in data analytics, researchers with a treasure trove of data to develop new insights for industry, and best-in-class tools to help our immersion venues provide additional value to customers and the community."
"The Media Effects and Technology Lab (METL) is a new state-of-the-art facility dedicated to investigating human-technology interactions across multiple platforms. The METL will serve as a collaborative space for interdisciplinary teams of faculty, students, and industry professionals to design, disseminate, and evaluate the effects media content, while also producing socially impactful insights. Projects currently under development investigate the future of advertising in virtual reality (VR), the impact of immersive journalism, and the influencing of pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors through customized digital experiences. Powered by the latest eye-tracking, facial expression, and physiological monitoring technology, the METL seeks to position UF at the forefront of communication research, nationally and globally."
"The UF African Networks Lab studies trade and politically violent networks. We use social network analysis to visualize the structure of social networks and model their temporal evolution and spatial patterns."
"The University of Florida has a rich resource of scholars in departments as varied as English, History, Women’s Studies, Anthropology, Psychology, Law, Art, Engineering, Philosophy, Computer Science, and Statistics who are interested in interdisciplinary work on medicine and culture. Albert Brick Professor of English Dr. Pamela Gilbert, Shands clinical faculty member Dr. Paulette Hahn and Nina Stoyan-Rosenzwieg of the Health Science Center Library have found that many faculty at the College of Medicine are interested in integrating input from scholars outside of medicine into the clinical and educational process. However, the sheer size of UF, while offering advantages in sheer numbers of talented participants, has sometimes made finding those in other departments of UF difficult. We therefore collaborated to create a new collective, the Collective for Interdisciplinary Scholarship on Medicine and Culture (CISMaC). We hope this website will form a locus for communication and discussion across departmental boundaries. The main purpose for this site is to facilitate projects that transcend disciplinary barriers and connect medical study with other fields, promoting work on the history of medicine, literature and medicine, medicine and the arts, health and ethics, intersections of health and gender, ethnicities and race, and, ideally, new inquiries not yet imaginable."
"We work on a computer-enhanced analysis of the Ancient Greek and Latin languages to study the Greco-Roman worlds, their culture, and societies. Our work aims at making historical research accessible and helping everyone understand the past, learn from ancient civilizations’ lived experiences, and prepare for the future from a more informed position. Under the aegis of the Digital Epigraphy and Archaeology Project, we work on 3D digitization, digital preservation, dissemination, and advanced automatic analysis of historical artifacts."
"The Geospatial Network Analysis and Visualization (GeoNAVI) Lab is led by Dr. Yujie Hu, Assistant Professor of Spatial Networks, in the Department of Geography at the University of Florida. We are a research group with interests in studying urban–such as transportation, human mobility, and accessibility–from a geographic perspective. Geography and GIScience are the disciplinary foundations of our research, but our research also draw on many other fields that study urban, such as transportation engineering, network science, urban planning, public health, criminology, and environmental science and policy."
"Housed within the Department of Anthropology, the Laboratory of Southeastern Archaeology (LSA) is the physical and intellectual base for faculty and students devoted to the archaeology of Florida and the greater American Southeast. Active field projects offer research opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students seeking careers in professional archaeology. The LSA houses research collections from sites in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, as well as the equipment and space for analysis and reporting. Headed by Professor Kenneth E. Sassaman, the LSA is a beneficiary of the Hyatt and Cici Brown Endowment for Florida Archaeology."
"The Land Use and Environmental Change Institute (LUECI) works to coalesce an interdisciplinary community of researchers that appreciate the anthropogenic influence on and the cultural consequences of global environmental change. Our location in Gainesville is ideal for using the changing environment of Florida as a practical laboratory and sentinel of global change. LUECI was developed cooperatively by the Departments of Geological Sciences, Geography, Anthropology, and the Center for Latin American Studies to support basic and applied research on environmental change caused by natural phenomena and human activities."
"SPOHP is an award-winning, social-justice research center engaged in experiential learning initiatives all over the world. Our team of student researchers, interns, volunteers, and staff are dedicated to gathering, preserving, and promoting living histories of individuals from all walks of life. SPOHP is committed to using critical historical inquiry and digital humanities production to encourage civic engagement and dialogue between the past, present and the future."
"The Spatial Epidemiology & Ecology Research Laboratory (SEER Lab) is an interdisciplinary research laboratory jointly housed in the Emerging Pathogens Institute and the Department of Geography at the University of Florida. SEER Lab is focused on questions addressing the ecology and spatio-temporal patterns of diseases. SEER Lab research is focused primarily on bacterial zoonoses, those bacterial diseases that affect both animals and humans."
"The Trace innovation initiative is a research endeavor developed and maintained by the University of Florida’s Department of English. Trace works at the intersection of writing studies, digital media studies, and ecocriticism. Providing an interdisciplinary forum for scholars, we focus on the ethical and material impact of media. Trace acts as a hub for several distinct projects including an online journal, Sequentials, ARCs, and MassMine for which we are always seeking submissions. We welcome submissions that contribute to the theorization and invention of nature, technology, and culture."
"The Center for Instructional Technology and Training (CITT) is part of the Office of Academic Technology within UF Information Technology. We empower customers with knowledge, skills and technologies to successfully meet their teaching and learning needs. To do this, we foster a customer-oriented approach to service delivery, facilitate collaborative partnerships with internal and external constituents, provide resources to support teaching, learning, and student success, and promote and support University of Florida mission and strategy."
"The Circular Health Humanities Lab is an experiential learning opportunity offered by the One Health Center where students can research and learn how the humanities intersect and apply to the fields of health."
"The US Caribbean & Ethnic Florida Digital Newspaper Project is a collaborative project between the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries, the library system at the University of Puerto Rico–Rio Piedras, and the University of the Virgin Islands, as part of the state and territories’ involvement in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). With funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the project will digitize approximately 100,000 pages of historic newspapers published through 1963. The US Caribbean & Ethnic Florida Digital Newspaper Project builds on work completed for the Florida and Puerto Rico Digital Newspaper Project, a $923,000 NEH-funded project which ran from 2013 to 2019 with the primary goal of digitizing newspapers from Florida and Puerto Rico. The latest project (funded in 2019) expands the scope of the FPRDNP, by expanding the content for Florida to include ethnic press and by bringing on the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) as a new partner to include digitization of newspapers published on the islands. NEH funding of the Caribbean & Ethnic Florida project brings the combined project total to over $1.2 million."
"In setting the standard for an AI university, the University of Florida is preparing AI-capable students in every discipline for the 21st century workforce while fueling life-changing discoveries by research faculty in every college. This work, guided by a strong foundation in ethics, is driving the creation of a diversified, technology-driven, high-wage economy in Florida and strengthening the country's competitiveness in a global market."
"The Informatics Institute aims to develop and nurture integrative informatics research and education studies at the University of Florida. UFII brings together preeminent researchers that explore many contemporary application areas from our institution. From science and medicine, or humanities to engineering, UF experts develop the tools and technologies to support and complement these studies. These collaborative efforts result in important conclusions across different disciplinary fields."
"UFIT Research Computing provides comprehensive training, consulting, advanced software, and proposal support for researchers that use HiPerGator, the University of Florida supercomputer. Multiple training sessions are available each semester, and consultant expertise is available daily through established “walk-in” hours or by appointment. Staff also maintain proposal support documentation, including sample letters of commitment and facilities descriptions, to allow researchers a tighter focus on their projects. Investment rates are arranged to accommodate the entire range of research funding, including projects that engage restricted data."
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