Humanities in the Digital Age

Digital and computational technologies are impacting scholarship across all disciplines, but nowhere is the transformation as dramatic as in the humanities. Researchers are tackling questions about history, the arts, and culture in radically new ways: from using computers to detect patterns in massive amounts of digitized writing, to applying GIS technology to develop interactive maps that describe complex histories, to recreating archaeological sites and artifacts through 3-D modeling.

The investment of substantial resources at Penn Arts and Sciences in the digital humanities will capitalize on significant momentum at the School and extend Penn's presence as a leader in vital new areas of humanistic research.

Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World doctoral student Lucas Stephens uses the Phantom 2 Vision + Quadcopter to map an ancient city.