American Studies major Joanna Hejl ’20 has been named the University of Richmond’s first ever Beinecke Scholar. The scholarship provides recipients with $34,000 to support graduate studies in the arts, humanities, or social sciences. Learn more.
Lauren Tilton was promoted to professor of digital humanities and was appointed the E. Claiborne Robins Professor of Liberal Arts. Tilton specializes in analyzing, developing, and applying digital and computational methods to the study of 20th and 21st century documentary expression and visual culture.
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Lauren Tilton, E. Claiborne Robins Professor of Liberal Arts and Digital Humanities, and undergraduate student Mia Lazar, '24, have received a grant from Virginia Humanities for their project, Digital Documerica: Picturing the Environment in 1970’s America. Digital Documerica is a joint project of The Digital Scholarship Lab and the Distant Viewing Lab.
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Photogrammar, a project led by Lauren Tilton, associate professor of digital humanities; and Taylor Arnold, associate professor of statistics; along with colleagues in the Digital Scholarship Lab at UR and American Studies at Yale University, was awarded the American Studies Association's 2022 Garfinkel Prize in Digital Humanities.
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Lauren Tilton, associate professor of digital humanities, and Taylor Arnold, associate professor of statistics, received a $485,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation for their Distant Viewing Toolkit project. Learn more.
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The Digital Scholarship Lab’s popular mapping project now includes more locations, city introductions, and teaching resources.
Ariel Clemmer, ’05, heads the Center for Social Justice, which designs and implements innovative pro bono services in Springfield, Massachusetts.
The University of Richmond is included on the list of U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most Fulbright U.S. Students and Scholars for 2022–23.
American Studies professor Laura Browder has been named a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, which is located in Scandinavia.
American studies professor Laura Browder is quoted.
Lauren Tilton, professor of liberal arts and digital humanities, is quoted.
The Digital Scholarship Lab’s “Mapping Inequality” project is highlighted.
Historian and president emeritus Ed Ayers is quoted.
Mailing address:
American Studies Program
Carole Weinstein International Center, Room 306
211 Richmond Way
University of Richmond, Virginia 23173
Phone: (804) 484-1471
Fax: (804) 484-1577
Program Coordinator: Laura Browder
Academic Administrative Coordinator: Lynn Hardwicke