Our Projects

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

3D Cultural Heritage Informatics Documentation

The Age of Lead

The Age of Lead

Archaeology of the 19th-Century Bras d'Eau, Mauritius

Archaeology of the 19th-Century Bras d'Eau, Mauritius

Architectural Adaptation in the Roman West

Architectural Adaptation in the Roman West

Being and Place in(between) Video Game Worlds

Being and Place in(between) Video Game Worlds

Building Back The Blacktop

Building Back The Blacktop

ClockWork

ClockWork

Community Listening in Isle Royale National Park

Community Listening in Isle Royale National Park

Connection Established

Connection Established

Dash-Amerikan

Dash-Amerikan

Digital Skriker

Digital Skriker

Gertrude Stein's Grammars

Gertrude Stein's Grammars

Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe

Kingdom of Code: Cryptography and the New Privacy, 1975-1993

Kingdom of Code: Cryptography and the New Privacy, 1975-1993

Digital edition of La Vie de sainte Marie l'Égyptienne

Digital edition of La Vie de sainte Marie l'Égyptienne

Land And Legacy

Land And Legacy

Mapping Borges in the Argentine Publishing Industry

Mapping Borges in the Argentine Publishing Industry

Measured Unrest in the Poetry of the Black Arts Movement

Measured Unrest in the Poetry of the Black Arts Movement

Prism

Prism

Reading Silent Woolf

Reading Silent Woolf

Songs of the Victorians & Augmented Notes

Songs of the Victorians & Augmented Notes

Stylistic Variation In Online Political Discourse

Stylistic Variation In Online Political Discourse

Unclosure

Unclosure

UVA Reveal

UVA Reveal

Virtual Garden Dining In Pompeii

Virtual Garden Dining In Pompeii

Your Name Here

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

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.