U.S. Latino Digital Humanities Program to Launch at University of Houston with $750,000 Mellon Foundation Grant

From the University of Houston:

A $750,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has been awarded to the University of Houston to establish a first-of-its-kind U.S. Latino Digital Humanities Program in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.

The program will give scholars expanded access to a vast collection of written materials produced by Latinos and archived by the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literacy Heritage (“Recovery”) program and UH’s Arte Público Press, the nation’s largest publisher of contemporary and recovered literature by Hispanic authors from the United States.

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The grant provides opportunities for these scholars to use computational tools such as data curation, visualization, spatial analysis and metadata creation to discover new knowledge from the materials located by the Recovery program. The program has digitized hundreds of thousands of documents once at risk of being lost forever — from books and newspapers to manuscripts and personal papers — and made them available for international distribution.

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