On Tuesday, March 18, I had an opportunity to observe my ODH colleague, Jason Rhody, give a presentation on digital humanities at the NEH to the 2008 liaisons meeting of The Independent College Office, an organization of liberal arts colleges.   At other meeting sessions, staff members from the Division of Research Programs and the Office of Challenge Grants spoke about their work.

I thought that Jim Boelkins, the Provost at Hope College did a nice job of introducing Jason. Jim reaffirmed that the NEH is not just interested in supporting work on digital humanities that orginate from research universities (although those projects are still welcome).  He reminded the audience that Christian Spielvogel at Hope College received a Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant in 2007 for his project to develop a web-based simulation based on the online Valley of the Shadow archive. Among the many issues that Jason discussed, one that I thought was parti ... Read More »