Digital Humanities @ UF Archives - Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

“Look at the Water Coming!” — Remembering the 1896 Hurricane in Florida and Imagining the Storms to Come

The storymap “Look at the Water Coming!” — Remembering the 1896 Hurricane in Florida and Imagining the Storms to Come is an interdisciplinary public humanities project led by five UF faculty and supported by graduate students. Developed as part of the Mellon Foundation-supported Coasts, Climates, the Humanities, and the Environment Consortium (CCHEC), the project integrates archival research and public engagement to model humanities-informed responses to environmental challenges.

Archive of Haitian Religion and Culture: Collaborative Research and Scholarship on Haiti and the Haitian Diaspora

Collaborator: Dr. Laurent Dubois at the University of Virginia.
Description: The Archive of Haitian Religion and Culture, “The Vodou Archive”, collects cultural artefacts from Haiti and its Diaspora for free public access.

Movable Book Project

The movable book project is a long-term project to support curious makers in their research on movable and pop-up books in our Rare and Baldwin Historic Children’s Book Collection.

Digital Humanities Resources indexed by the Digital Collections at Smathers Libraries

Murphy’s Well-Being – Jack Stenner, Art and Technology

SPOHP YouTube Channel – Samuel Proctor Oral History Program

Digital Archives – Samuel Proctor Oral History Program

LAC DH Symposium – Melissa Jerome, Sarah Tew, Hélène Huet

Latin American & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium – Guides @ UF at University of Florida.
Read the Smathers Library Article.

Guts & Ambition: 50 years of The Independent Florida Alligator – Melissa Jerome and April Hines

(Published 2024) Digital exhibit highlighting important stories told by student journalists and the publication’s impact on the university and local community through the past 50 years.

Recetas de las Américas – Melissa Jerome and Sarah Tew

(Published 2022) A digital humanities project that allows for browsing, searching, and filtering recipes (in Spanish and English) from newspapers.