Digital Scholarship & Emerging Technologies

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Digital Scholarship at Swarthmore supports faculty and students in the critical use of digital networked technologies in research and teaching. From collaborative projects to workshops and training, from student programs to partnering with regional and national partnerships, we work across disciplines to promote technologically, critically, and socially engaged scholarship.

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  • consulting / on a range of research projects and digital assignments, whether at the idea stage, for a granting deadline, or for an upcoming course
  • connecting / faculty and students with expertise and resources whether in the library, across campus, or beyond
  • instructing / courses and workshops on digital tools and critical literacies for digital environments
  • managing / projects including teams, timelines, data, and other resources
  • building / projects that incorporate online exhibits, data visualizations, interactive mapping, text analysis, and other tools for research and teaching
  • integrating / emerging technologies into your teaching and research, such as virtual reality, augemented reality, 3D modeling, and artificial intelligence

DS Staff List

Amanda Licastro

Head, Digital Scholarship Strategies

Libraries

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8543
  2. McCabe Library 104A

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Schedule an appointment

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Roberto Vargas

Head, Research & Instructional Services

Libraries-Research & Instruction

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6107
  2. McCabe Library 120

Links

  1. Profile

Subject specialist for Art & Art History, Classics, English Literature, Latin American & Latino Studies, Linguistics, Philosophy, Religion, and Spanish.

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Roberto Vargas

Liz Hogrefe

Emerging Technologies Fellow

Libraries

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8326
  2. McCabe Library

Links

  1. Profile
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Lib/Lab Fellows

Interdisciplinary opportunity in the fall semester exploring the theory and praxis of digital environments. Students learn web development while engaging emerging issues in technology and society.

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The Struggle to Preserve Philadelphia's Chinatown

Explore a story map of Chinatown then and now, which highlights spaces affected by gentrification & urban renewal, and centers of community, in order to better understand the significance of the Chinatown community and its history.

Friendship Gate to Philadelphia's Chinatown

From Local to Global: Consumption and the Quaker Body

Explore an exhibition curated by the students of ARTH083 - Object, Media, Matter - Introduction to Material Culture and Material Histories. Objects selected represent the nuanced history of Quaker culture.

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