Projects
Anchored by the Digital Scholarship Group, the NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science, and the Humanities Center, the space hosts digital project teams, student and faculty research groups, and resources for digital experimentation and research. The CDS provides physical infrastructure, in the form of dedicated project spaces, to these projects.
3D Black Boston
A project that uses immersive technologies to create virtual reality experiences of nineteenth-century African American heritage sites on Beacon Hill.
African Built Heritage Hub
The African Built Heritage Hub is a collaborative research initiative spearheaded by faculty and researchers from Northeastern University in collaboration with L’Ecole du Patrimoine African (Porto Novo, Benin).
Center for Transformative Media
The Center for Transformative Media is an interdisciplinary research network dedicated to investigating the potential of emerging media technologies for creativity and social change.
Digital Archive of Indigenous Language Persistence
DAILP is a community-based digital archive created to support indigenous peoples’ knowledge, interpretations, and representations of the past.
Digital Transgender Archive
The purpose of the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) is to increase the accessibility of transgender history by providing an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world.
Early Black Boston Digital Almanac
The Early Black Boston Digital Almanac is a collection of digital exhibits, as well as exciting and edifying material about the vibrant Black communities of Boston during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Early Caribbean Digital Archive
The Early Caribbean Digital Archive (ECDA) is an open access collection of pre-twentieth-century Caribbean texts, maps, and images.
Mapping Black London
The Mapping Black London digital project recentres and recovers the presence of people of colour across the city’s long history.
NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science
The NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science fosters interdisciplinary collaboration, bridging the gaps between technology, the humanities, and social science.
Reckonings
The Reckonings Project seeks to reckon with, uncover, preserve, and honor the histories and cultures of BIPOC Boston and New England through practices of co-creation and co-curation between colleges, community members, and local organizations.
The Humanities Center
Northeastern University’s Humanities Center, spanning our global campus network, promotes collaborative, innovative, and publicly-engaged humanities research and programming.