Purpose

The Chesapeake Digital Humanities Consortium (CDHC) is an association of people and institutions committed to the cooperative development of teaching, learning, research, and community partnerships in the digital humanities. Because place and space shape collaboration, CDHC is focused on supporting digital humanities in the D.C, Virginia, and Maryland region.

CDHC has three guiding goals:

• Identifying, developing, and communicating opportunities for members to pursue the digital humanities.
• Building accessible, diverse, and equitable digital humanities communities.
• Fostering sharing, collaboration, and innovation among people, places, and institutions.

Join

Joining CDHC is simple, just fill out our membership form! You will have the option to make your information available in a public membership directory to facilitate collaboration amongst our members.

Want to stay up to date on what’s happening at other institutions? Sign-up for our email list.

We can also be found on the #chesapeakedh channel on the Digital Humanities Slack or on Twitter @chesapeakedh.

Members

View our public membership roster to learn more about our members and find collaborators.

Conference

Save the date! The Chesapeake Digital Humanities Consortium will hold its third annual conference Digital Pandemic Studies: Public Health and Structural Oppressions virtually on Zoom in two half-day sessions, March 3 and 4.

Check out our 2022 Conference page for more details!

Governance

• Steering Chair - Corinne Guimont, Digital Scholarship Coordinator, Virginia Tech
• Communication chair - Alex Kinnaman, Digital Preservation Coordinator, Virginia Tech
• Membership & Outreach chair - Shayna Maskell, Associate Professor in the School of Integrative Studies, George Mason University
• Annual Program committee:
  • Shayna Maskell, steering liaison - George Mason University
  • Tonya-Marie Howe - Marymount University
  • Junjie Luo - Gettysburg College
  • Michael Davis - Hampton University
  • Riddhima Rajesh Sharma - Bowling Green State University
  • George Oberle - George Mason University
  • Sara Woodbury - College of William and Mary
  • Jonathan Newby - College of William and Mary
  • Donna Schaefer - Marymount University

History

With the help of funding from the Associated Colleges of the South, Washington and Lee University, and University of Virginia Scholars’ Lab, the Consortium formed in March 2018 to encourage collaboration across liberal arts colleges and Carnegie classification Research I universities. The scope quickly expanded to focus on people, rather than institutions, in the Washington D.C, Maryland, and Virginia region.

On May 29, 2019, a group met at the University of Richmond to solidify the consortium. At this meeting, we established a governance structure and finalized the statement of purpose. We hosted our first annual conference in February 2020. See the 2021 CFP for more details on last year’s events.

Credits

Header image:

U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service. Annapolis Field Office. Chesapeake Bay wetlands: take pride in Chesapeake Bay. [Annapolis, Md.?: The Service, ?, 1973] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/94683953/.