Projects
See open scholarship in action! Look here to celebrate open scholarship work and get ideas for incorporating open scholarship into your own work.
Climate Justice in Your Classroom
As the inequitable impacts of climate change become more evident and destructive, it is essential for climate and environmental justice, as well as methods of civic engagement, to be taught at a high-level to college-level students. This book provides real examples of how professors at the University of Washington integrated these critical issues into their teachings, both in targeted lessons and as throughlines across an entire course. These samples of how environmental and climate justice have been successfully integrated into higher-level education can serve as both a record of the UW's progress towards centering JEDI at the heart of all students, and as a model for future instructors to use as they work to incorporate more aspects of justice and engagement into their own material.
Visit the Climate Justice in Your Classroom Pressbook >
Our Voices: A Guide to Citing Personal Experience and Interviews in Research
Our hope is that this guide to citing personal experience and interviews meets our goal of supporting students to produce their own knowledge, as well as honoring the academic value of their lived experience and the experiences of their families and communities. Through the use of a set of guidelines we created for students to cite personal experience and interviews, we found students self-reported increase in engagement and success in academic assignments. We propose this set of guidelines are an important practical tool for critical, feminist, and anti-racist pedagogy, as well as a method for teaching ethical research.
Visit the Our Voices Pressbook >
Introducing Digital Humanities
Showcase from an undergraduate class exploring current digital humanities projects, methods, tools, and debates. Students gathered datasets of primary source material, curated, cleaned, and analyzed it using a range of quantitative and qualitative digital tools. Results are shared on this site.
Tutankhamun Centenary 1922-2022
Showcase combining work of University of Washington Master's of Library and Information Science Capstone students and students in NEAR East 485.
Visit the Tutankhamun Centenary 1922-2022 Site >
Data Science for Social Good
eScience Institute's Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) brings together students, stakeholders, and data and domain researchers to work on projects for societal benefit.
Visit the eScience Institute's DSSG website >
Digital Humanities Summer Fellowships
Funded projects by UW faculty and graduate students through the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities.
Visit the Simpson Center for the Humanities website >
Incubator Program
Enables new science by bring together data scientists and domain scientists to partner on quarter-long research projects.
Visit the eScience Institute's Incubator Program website >
Hackweeks
A powerful tool for fostering the exchange of ideas in research and computation facilitated by 3 core components: tutorials on state-of-the-art methodology, peer-learning, and project work in a collaborative environment.
Visit the eScience Institute's Hackweek website >
Graduate Research Clusters
Graduate student driven and Simpson Center for the Humanities funded, clusters foster crossdisciplinary collaboration and inquiry among graduate students.
Visit the Simpson Center for the Humanities website >
What Does Art Do?: Understanding Caribbean and Gulf Coast Embodied Oral History and Performing Arts Expressions through the Humanities
Ethnographies of historical experience produced by students in UW Honors 212 B in Spring of 2022.
Visit the SPLOTBox project website >
FACE-ing Incarceration
Virtual exhibit featuring the art and poetry of people incarcerated in Washington State. This exhibit is possible through the joint efforts of HOPE (Huskies for Opportunities in Prison Education, a UW RSO), the UW Libraries, and the staff and men at the Monroe Correctional Complex. The exhibit will be expanded, but we hope you enjoy the initial contributions from these talented artists.
Visit the Omeka project website >
Entanglements: Mapping the History of Asian Migration onto Coast Salish Lands
Interactive mapping project exploring migration and histories of Coast Salish and Asian American peoples.
Visit the Omeka project website
Reclaiming Venus: The Many Lives of Alvenia Bridges
Reclaiming Venus is a multimodal project that tells the extraordinary story of Alvenia Bridges through an ethnographic memoir and a story map walking tour.
Visit the WordPress project website
How to Host Your Own MisinfoDay
A toolkit, created by the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public, for Colleges and Universities to host their own annual event to teach high school students, teachers, and librarians how to identify and combat online misinformation.
Visit the Manifold project website
Jacob Lawrence in Seattle
Students in ART H 400 worked alongside librarians from a variety of specialties to create a class book about the meaning of Lawrence's work in Seattle.
Visit the Pressbooks project website
English 131: Key Concepts in Contemporary America
Student project that explores and explains the social and historical contexts of particular concepts and why they still matter.
Visit the Manifold project website
Bow Down to Washington
Explore the history of the University of Washington's fight song "Bow Down to Washington" through the archives of the UW Music Library Special Collections.
Visit the Omeka project website
LIS 598 Applied Digital Humanities
Student research result presentations from this graduate-level course that introduced concepts & methodologies for answering research questions, based on historical primary source documents.
Visit the Omeka project website
How to FOIA
A guide to filing Freedom of Information Act requests.
Visit the Pressbooks project website
Digital World Wars
Example of successfully integrating digital tools into a course in order to understand the world WWI and WWII shaped.
Visit the WordPress course website
Mill on the Floss
A digital edition of the Mill on the Floss prepared by students in Jesse Oak Taylor's English 440/529 course, Spring 2020.
Visit the Manifold project website
We Are History Keepers Workshop Guidebook
Created by UW Libraries’ Special Collections, this digital book guides community members to organize and preserve documents, photos and recordings of the facts of their experiences to create concrete records of Northwest history.
Visit the Manifold project website