Director's Welcome

Welcome to Spatial Humanities, a website created by the Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia Library to open disciplinary conversations, foster crowdsourced resource-sharing, and contribute to methodological training and investigation into geospatial approaches to the humanities. We invite you to learn more about our NEH-supported Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship and to join our community of contributors.

About the Institute

In 2009 and 2010, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia Library hosted three tracks of an “Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship.” This website — which our participants dubbed not a clearinghouse but a “sharing-house” — was released in 2011 to serve as a community-driven resource for the spatial humanities.

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Spatial Humanities made possible by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to the Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia Library. It does not necessarily represent the views of the NEH. Learn more about the Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship.