This Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, ECDS is highlighting three projects that reflect the richness and diversity of Asian and Asian American histories, cultures, and communities.
From the Georgia Asian American Community Archive Initiative, to a digital Manifold edition on the Javanese dance form gambyong, to a Southern Spaces article on South Asian Muslim and African American communities in Atlanta, these projects show how digital scholarship can preserve stories, expand access, and deepen public understanding.
Swipe to explore the featured projects, and read the full blog post at the link in our bio.
#aapiheritagemonth #asianamerican #digitalhumanities #publicscholarship #emoryuniversity
🚀 Happy National Space Day!
Space is having a moment—from NASA Artemis program to Project Hail Mary—and we’re celebrating by highlighting one of our own projects:
🌕 Apollo 15 Learning Hub (Web: apollo15hub.org)
Created by Emory Center for Digital Scholarship with @prof.t.l.scott and astronaut David Scott, the Hub lets you explore the Apollo 15 mission through archives, 3D models, and more.
✨ Ready to explore the Moon?
🔗 Learning more about this project through our new blog and through the project website: apollo15hub.org (both links in bio)
#nationalspaceday #spaceexploration #apollo15 #nasa #artemisii
Celebrating the new ECDS website! 🎉💻
We’re excited to share the launch of the newly redesigned website for the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship! The new site makes it easier to explore our workshops, project blog, contact information, and the wide range of digital scholarship projects we support.
As we celebrate this new chapter, we’re also reflecting on the growth of ECDS over the years—from long-standing projects like SlaveVoyages to newer collaborations like Open World Atlanta—and looking ahead to exciting initiatives on the horizon.
Read more about the new website, the history of ECDS, and some of the projects featured on the site through our new blog at the link in bio.
#emoryuniversity #digitalscholarship #digitalhumanities
This April marks the 30th anniversary of National Poetry Month, a celebration launched by the Academy of American Poets in 1996. This month, we’re highlighting Poets in Place, an ongoing Southern Spaces series featuring original videos of poets reading and discussing their poems in the very places they write about. 
Supported in part by a research collaboration award in the humanities from Emory University’s Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, the series is edited by Natasha Trethewey and Allen Tullos. 
Explore the series through the link in bio.
#nationalpoetrymonth #poet #digitalhumanities
Happy International Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️⚧️
Today, we’re proud to highlight Intarsia: Undergraduate Journal of Queer and Feminist Inquiry @intarsiaundergradjournal — a student-led, peer-reviewed, open-access journal created to support critical engagement with queer and feminist theory at the undergraduate level.
ECDS was honored to support this project through website design and technical guidance, helping bring this important platform to life.
Explore the journal: intarsiajournal.org/#
Learn more about the project through our past blog: https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/ecds/intarsia/
#transdayofvisibility #tdov2026 #queerstudies #emoryuniversity
On March 25, we observe the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
In recognition of this day, ECDS is spotlighting a past project on the 3D reconstruction of the Marie-Séraphique, a slave ship involved in the transatlantic slave trade.
Created through collaboration among historians, museum staff, and digital scholarship practitioners, including ECDS’s Steve Bransford, the project helps make this history more visible and accessible to broader publics. At the same time, it reminds us that no model can fully convey the violence and suffering endured by the captives onboard.
This blog post looks back on the project, the collaboration behind it, and the role digital scholarship can play in interpreting difficult histories.
Read more at the link in bio.
#internationaldayofremembrance #transatlanticslavetrade #digitalhumanities #emoryuniversity
Stories connect us. 🌍🎧🎥
This World Storytelling Day (March 20), ECDS is celebrating the many ways stories can be shared — through podcasts, video essays, digital storytelling, and more.
Want to create your own audio or video project? ECDS offers free training modules on audio recording, video editing, captioning, and digital storytelling to support your work in the classroom and beyond.
We also have resources for:
✨ Digital Storytelling
✨ Podcast Assignments
✨ Video Essay Assignments
✨ Creating Instructional Videos
Start learning at the link in bio or through this website: training.ecds.emory.edu/courses/audio-and-video-editing/
#worldstorytellingday #digitalstorytelling #emoryuniversity #openeducation
Celebrating Irish American Heritage Month with digital literary history. 🍀
This Irish American Heritage Month, ECDS is highlighting the literary legacy of Irish writer Samuel Beckett through digital scholarship.
The Interactive Index to the Letters of Samuel Beckett in Public Archives (Chercher) is a public archive project that opens new ways of exploring Beckett’s life, writing, and global connections through his correspondence.
Built on decades of research at Emory, the project allows students, scholars, and the public to search rich metadata from Beckett’s letters held in archives around the world. By tracing the people, places, publications, and events that shaped his world, Chercher makes Irish literary history more discoverable, connected, and accessible.
🔗 Explore the archive at the link：chercherbeckettletters.emory.edu
#irishamerican #irishamericanheritagemonth #emory #digitalhumanities
🌷 International Women’s Day Project Spotlight
This International Women’s Day, we’re highlighting the story of activist Kipp Dawson, whose life reflects the power of women’s organizing and collaborations across social movements.
For more than 60 years, activist Kipp Dawson has worked across civil rights, anti-war, feminist, labor, and LGBTQ movements, building coalitions and fighting for social justice.
The Kipp Dawson Project, supported by ECDS Digital Publication Specialist @baileybetik with a team of scholars, brings together archival documents, photographs, and oral histories to tell the story of her life and activism.
Through an interactive website, the project highlights the idea of “women’s radical collaboration” and explores how different social movements have overlapped and shaped one another since the 1950s.
🔗 Visit the project website to explore the story: kippdawson.com
#womensday #internationalwomensday2026 #digitalhumanities
🌍 Open Education Week (March 2–6)
ECDS is celebrating Open Education Week @openedglobal by highlighting digital projects that are free and open to access. Open educational resources support collaboration, accessibility, and student engagement around the world.
ECDS works closely with @emorylibrary , including Scholarly Communications, to preserve and share open-access resources for research and teaching.
This week we’re featuring several ECDS projects that support open learning:
✨ ECDS Training Website – curated courses and digital skills resources
🚀 Apollo 15 Learning Hub – primary source materials from the Apollo missions
🏙 Open World Atlanta – digital research on Atlanta’s past and present
💃 The Tango Companion Website – audio-visual resources accompanying the Cambridge Companion to Tango
🔗 Read more on the ECDS blog (link in bio)
#oeweek26 #openeducation #digitalscholarship #publicscholarship #emory
☕ The Buzz! — Spring 2026 ECDS Event
Curious about digital scholarship at Emory? Join us for coffee and short presentations on exciting digital projects from across campus.
📅 March 17, 2026
⏰ 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
📍 Jones Room, Woodruff Library
Hear from faculty and ECDS staff about projects using tools like LiDAR, ArcGIS StoryMaps, and digital archives, and stay to chat about their work.
Coffee will be provided.
#emory #emoryuniversity #digitalscholarship
📖 Black History Month Spotlight: Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation @jhumrehab
As Black History Month comes to a close, we take a moment to highlight work from the Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation that centers Black identity, representation, and lived experience in healthcare.
Together, these works center voice, vulnerability, and vision — reminding us that equity in healthcare is not only structural, but deeply human.
🔗 Learn more from our new blog (link in bio)
#blackhistorymonth #medicalhumanities #publicscholarship
