Grants from the Hewlett and Keck Foundations and Xerox are helping to transform the way the humanistic fields are taught.

by Bridget Meeds '91

What’s the connection between an online annotated copy of Sense and Sensibility and a virtual gallery of images of Islam in 19th-century European art?

Both are projects created by Ithaca College students in the humanities, as part of a $670,000 initiative funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the W. M. Keck Foundation, and Xerox. Since the digital humanities project was initiated in 1998, students and faculty in departments in the School of Humanities and Sciences have been using technologies in the classroom in ways they might never have tried before.

Photos by George Sapio