Overview
The Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) is an office within the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Our primary mission is to help coordinate the NEH's efforts in the area of digital scholarship. As in the sciences, digital technology has changed the way scholars perform their work. It allows new questions to be raised and has radically changed the ways in which materials can be searched, mined, displayed, taught, and analyzed. Technology has also had an enormous impact on how scholarly materials are preserved and accessed, which brings with it many challenging issues related to sustainability, copyright, and authenticity. The ODH works not only with NEH staff and members of the scholarly community, but also facilitates conversations with other funding bodies both in the United States and abroad so that we can work towards meeting these challenges.
Read "Why the Digital Humanities?," [PDF] adapted from a presentation given to members of the National Council on the Humanities about the creation of the NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities.
Contact
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Join the "ODH Update" listserv to receive periodic announcements from NEH about digital humanities grants, programs, issues, and events.
To reach us via e-mail, please contact odh@neh.gov.
ODH Staff
Digital humanities projects are funded and administered by staff throughout the NEH in all of our grantmaking offices and divisions. The ODH Staff works to promote and coordinate digital humanities programs and outreach on an NEH-wide basis.
Brett Bobley, Director
Jason Rhody, Senior Program Officer
Jennifer Serventi, Senior Program Officer
Visiting the NEH in Washington, DC
- Address
The Old Post Office Building
1100 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20506
Room 402
- Directions via Metro (Subway)
Take the Red line to Metro Center and exit at 12th Street. Walk south on 12th to Pennsylania Ave. Old Post Office is on Pennsylvania between 11th and 12th.
or
Take the Blue or Orange line to Federal Triangle. Cross 12th Street to Old Post Office which is on Pennsylvania between 11th and 12th.