Christopher Cantwell, University of Missouri, Kansas City, and I organized an unique panel for the AAR this year. We gathered together several folks exploring how digital humanities projects can aid in their teaching, scholarship, or communication. The format is a bit different as well – each participant will be spend about 5 minutes (PechaKucha style) introducing their digital project to the audience in laypersons terms and explain the logic behind employing digital tools or mediums.

The format of the session is as follows:

1. Introduction – Christopher Cantwell & Kristian Petersen
2. Research Projects

3. Scholarly Communications

4. Teaching

5. What’s next?

Each section will have a brief Q&A and the final portion (about 25 minutes) will be an open floor discussion including all the participants and attendees. Overall, our goal is to spark an interest in the digital in all realms of our scholarly life and give some practical signals of the variety of ways academics can deploy these types of projects or tools in their daily routine.

During the session, I will be introducing our co-edited volume (with Cantwell), Introductions to Digital Humanities: Research Methods in the Study of Religion (de Gruyter), which aims to serve as a comprehensive introduction to researching religion through digital humanities methods. We hope to discuss the project with potential contributors and future readers. Hope to see you there but if you can’t make it please be in touch if you’re interested.