1. Digital Humanities at Small Liberal Arts Colleges: Innovation and Integration Rebecca Frost Davis, Program Officer for the Humanities National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education We help liberal arts colleges integrate inquiry, pedagogy, and technology.

2. What is NITLE? http://www.nitle.org

3. Session Plan Context for Engagement—Defining Digital Humanities State of Digital Humanities at Small Liberal Arts Colleges Digital Humanities and the Undergrad Avenues of Engagement for Institutions (Case Studies) Challenges, Strategies & Practices

4. Your turn . . . What are the two most salient ways your institutions have engaged with the digital humanities? Twitter hashtags #NITLE #cni10f

5. Defining Digital Humanities “a nexus of fields within which scholars use computing technologies to investigate the kinds of questions that are traditional to the humanities, or, as is more true of my own work, who ask traditional kinds of humanities-oriented questions about computing technologies.” --Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Professor of Media Studies, Pomona College in Profhacker blog

6. Uses of Computational Methods for Research (Humanities Computing) Media Studies folks studying "New" Media The way new technology is reshaping research and the profession Archive Building Using Technology for Public Programming Using Technology in the Classroom Six rings in the big tent of digital humanities, as described by Chris Forster & Brett Bobley http://www.hastac.org/blogs/cforster/im-chris-where-am-i-wrong

7. Defining Liberal Education, Jo Ellen Parker, “What’s So Liberal about Higher Ed?” Academic Commons the study of the liberal arts and sciences pedagogical methodology & practices active learning, faculty/student collaboration, independent inquiry, & critical thinking; group study, undergraduate research, faculty mentoring, student presentations Preparation & skills for democratic citizenship literacy, numeracy, public speaking, scientific & statistical literacy, social & political science, critical thinking small, residential, private, bachelors granting college

8. Digital Humanities Conferences Digital Humanities 2010: 2 small liberal arts colleges out of 140 institutions Digital Humanities 2009: 5 presenters and two posters out of 360 participants Digital Humanities 2011?

9. Summary Findings of NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants (2007 - 2010)

10. NITLE Network Engagement in Digital Humanities

11. Increasing Activity Project Bamboo Workshops, 2008-2009 NITLE Summit Session, March 2010 Digital Scholarship Seminar Series, Fall 2010 Hamilton, Occidental, Wheaton and Willamette Publishing TEI for Small Colleges IMLS planning grant Dickinson, Mt. Holyoke and Wheaton Colleges THATCamp LAC: June 4-5, 2011, St. Norbert College Collaborative proposals to Digital Humanities 2011

12. Appeal of the Digital Humanities undergraduate research pedagogical practices, especially active and collaborative learning, project based and applied learning learning about the changed digital environment or context and how to exercise liberal arts abilities (critical thinking, writing, etc.) in that context preparing undergraduates to be citizens in a networked world interdisciplinarity and other types of collaboration revitalizing the humanities

13. UndergraduateEngagement Digital Humanities in Practice

14. Undergraduate Research Blackwell, C., & Martin, T. R. (2009). Technology, Collaboration, and Undergraduate Research, Digital Humanities Quarterly. 3(1). Early Novels Database (END), Swarthmore College Students

15. Mooring Gaps: Marianne Moore’s Bryn Mawr Poetry Jen Rajchel, Bryn Mawr College

16. Learning from Undergraduate Research Videos from Interview with Jen Rajchel Digital Humanities and the Undergrad Learning from an Undergraduate Digital Humanities Project Re: Humanities A Symposium of Digital Media in Academia Video Recap

17. Internships, Hamilton College Gabriela Arias HASTAC scholar Soweto ‘76 Archive with Angel Nieves Homovisiones Archive Center for Puerto Rican Studies Web intern for neighborhood museum in Spanish Harlem

18. Teaching Digital Humanities at Wheaton Diderot Encyclopedia Translation Project Students of Kirk Anderson, Wheaton College Wheaton College Digital History Project Transcribing & encoding archives with TEI Students in history methods course Kathryn Tomasek

19. Digital Humanities Courses & Assignments Humanities 250: Digital Humanities University of Puget Sound, Humanities Program Cf. Undergraduate Digital Scholarship Seminar: Digital Humanities Courses

20. Institutional engagement Digital Humanities in Practice

21. Institutional Structures Occidental College: Center for Digital Learning and Research Hamilton College: Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi) University of Richmond: Digital Scholarship Lab Wheaton College: Digital Scholarship Working Group Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Swarthmore: Tri-Co Digital Humanities Consortium University of Puget Sound: Humanities Program

22. Internal Factors Library and Archives University of Puget Sound, Willamette University, Lewis and Clark College, Occidental College, Wheaton College Merged Organizations Hamilton College, Wheaton College, Occidental College Curricular Structures University of Puget Sound, Hamilton College, Wheaton College

23. Lexomics, Wheaton College Connections Combining computer science, statistics & Old English texts http://wheatoncollege.edu/lexomics/ English-Computer Science Team-Teaching Computing for Poets (Comp 131) Connection (Computing and Texts)

24. External Factors People Grants External Organizations & Opportunities Project Bamboo, NITLE (Digital Scholarship Seminar series) Partnerships, especially with nearby large institutions Wheaton & Brown Occidental & USC & UCLA Swarthmore & Penn

25. Challenges Tradition Isolation Sustainability

26. TAPAS Project

27. Why should you care? Small liberal arts colleges are potential partners. Same problems in microcosm Undergraduate perspective link digital humanities to the curriculum connections to the general public. They care deeply about the liberal arts and the humanities, and are committed to preserving them in a networked world.