Here we share a sampling of the Scholars’ Lab scholarship in its many states and forms, from incipient ideas to formal projects with their own laptop stickers.
Projects
3D Cultural Heritage Informatics Website
3D Cultural Heritage Dataverse Repository
LhasaVR
A11-A12 Rally and Community Response
Bibliographic Society of Virginia
Collective Biographies of Women
Community Standards for 3D Data Preservation: Best Practices Working Group
Design Pedagogy
Digital Yoknapatawpha
Equity Atlas
The Falmouth Project
Faulkner at Virginia: An Audio Archive
For Better for Verse
Geoloader
GIS Data
A Humanist's Cookbook For Natural Language Processing In Python
Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia
Latvian Dainas
Makergrounds
Mapping Afidna
Mapping the Holocaust in Eastern Europe
Mapping the Catalogue of Ships
Mark Twain and His Times
The Mind is a Metaphor
Mountain Lake Biological Station collaboration
Montpelier Archaeology
Neatline
Numismatic Collection at the University of Virginia Art Museum
Omeka Plugins
Praxis Program
President’s Commission on Slavery and the University
Project Blacklight
Salem Witch Trials
The Scholars' Lab (Is a Project!)
Slavery Images
Solrmarc
Spatial Humanities
Speaking In Code
Take Back The Archive
THL Place Dictionary
Year of Blogging
Zine Bakery @ Scholars' Lab
Student Projects
3D Cultural Heritage Informatics Documentation
The Age of Lead
Archaeology of the 19th-Century Bras d'Eau, Mauritius
Architectural Adaptation in the Roman West
Being and Place in(between) Video Game Worlds
Building Back The Blacktop
ClockWork
Community Listening in Isle Royale National Park
Connection Established
Dash-Amerikan
Digital Skriker
Gertrude Stein's Grammars
Ivanhoe
Kingdom of Code: Cryptography and the New Privacy, 1975-1993
Digital edition of La Vie de sainte Marie l'Égyptienne
Land And Legacy
Mapping Borges in the Argentine Publishing Industry
Measured Unrest in the Poetry of the Black Arts Movement
Prism
Reading Silent Woolf
Songs of the Victorians & Augmented Notes
Stylistic Variation In Online Political Discourse
Unclosure
UVA Reveal
Virtual Garden Dining In Pompeii
Your Name Here
Other Scholarly Activities
Our collaborators at UVA
Schools, departments, and other major groups we've collaborated with and supported, at the University of Virginia.
Science, technology, engineering
- School of Medicine (including: Neuroscience; Plastic Surgery; Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics; Medical Simulation Center)
- UVA Hospital
- Nursing
- Biology
- Physics
- Engineering (including Civil Engineering; Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering; Engineering & Society)
Social sciences
- Psychology
- Economics
- Law
- Environmental Science
- Education
- Politics
Arts & Humanities
- Art History
- Architecture & Architectural History
- Archaeology
- Media Studies
- Music
- Religious Studies
- English
- History
Languages & cultures
- East Asian Studies
- Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
- Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
- Slavic
- German
- French
- Classics
Special offices, museums, and pan-university work
- All of UVA’s GIS/spatial technologies support needs (entire campus)
- Makergrounds alliance of all UVA makerspaces
- COVID-19 Engineering+Medical+Making Relief Network
- Fralin Museum of Art
- Kluge-Ruhe Museum of Aboriginal Art
- UVA Facilities
- UVA President’s Commissions (e.g. on the University in the Age of Segregration; on Slavery)
- UVA Office of the Architect
- UVA Provost’s Office
- UVA Research Computing Data Analytics Center
- Lighting of the Lawn
- Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures
- Women in CS (WiCS) Hackathon
- Women in Data Science Symposium
UVA student groups with significant support beyond a consult
- #Charlottesville Syllabus student collaborative
- UVA First-Year Student Engineering Design Team
- UVA Immersive group (student-run VR working group)
- Cosplay Costuming & Crafts Club
- Virginia Motorsports Education club (a UVA School of Engineering student org)
- UVA English Department Annual Graduate Conference (GradCon)
- UVA Retro Gaming Club
- Many grant-project (e.g. UVA Biology Infectious Diseases in 3D student research team members and related classes) and project (e.g. Take Back the Acrhive project student interns) teams that include[d] UVA student collaborators
External community collaborations & fieldwork sites
- Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
- Mountain Lake Biological Station
- Charlottesville city monuments
- Poplar Forest
- Villa la Rotonda (Vicenza, Italy)
- Montpelier Descendants Committee & Montpelier Archaeology Lab (at James Madison’s Montpelier)
- Arcola Former Enslaved Quarter (Loudon County, VA)
- Bremo Plantation, Enslaved Cooking Spaces and Chapel (Fluvanna County, VA)
- Pine Grove Rosenwald School (Cumberland County, Va)
- St. John Rosenwald School
- Dunbar Rosenwald School (Spring 2025)
- Newtown Rosenwald School
- Barboursville Plantation House
- River View Farm
- Fluvanna Old Stone Jail
- Cuckoo African-American Schoolhouse
- Pat Oliphant Studio
- Anne Spencer House and Garden Museum
- Historical societies: Preservation Piedmont, Fluvanna Historical Society, Orange County Historical Society
- Fluvanna High School African-American Studies classes
- Building Goodness Foundation
- The Haven, Charlottesville
- Ablemarle County Public Schools (e.g. Scholar Studios Advisory Committee)
External scholarly leadership
External international scholarly organizations and editorial boards we've held elected or appointed service on.
- The Association for Computers and the Humanities elected or appointed roles (10: 5 while SLab staff or students, 5 while SLab alum)
- The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (1 staff)
- The Programming Historian (peer-reviewed DH journal; 4 staff)
- Modern Language Association appointed roles (4: 3 staff, 1 while SLab alum)