University College London’s Centre for Digital Humanities recently posted the following “infographic” that attempts to quantify the state of the “digital humanities” field. Though built upon imperfect evidence, the graphic gives a sense that digital history and the digital humanities more broadly are on the rise. I post this mainly to suggest the real-world relevance of the skills we’re building together through your course project.
About Mark Souther
I am an associate professor of history at Cleveland State University and public history director of the Center for Public History + Digital Humanities. I'm the author of New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City, editor of American Tourism: Constructing a National Tradition (forthcoming), and am researching a new book on perceptions of decline in postwar Cleveland. Apart from my involvement in CPHDH, I authored a recent successful National Register of Historic Places nomination and serve on the Cleveland Heights Landmark Commission. My history interests include urban and suburban history, 20th-century U.S. political and cultural history, leisure and tourism, and architecture and historic preservation, not to mention that I'm a self-indulgent hunter-gatherer of antiques and ephemera.
