Our faculty and students collaborate on innovative digital humanities projects and research that pushes the boundaries of scholarship and technology. From digital archives and text mining to community partnerships and interactive storytelling, we’re creating new ways to explore, preserve, and share human knowledge.

View the following ongoing research projects:

• The American History Textbook Project
• Englewood Makes History
• Jane Addams Papers Project
• Mapping the Ramapough Munsee Lenape Nation
• Memorializing Women: The Penny Colman Collection of Historical Landmarks of Women

The American History Textbook Project

A project to digitize, organize, and create thematic digital exhibits from a special collection in the Peter Mercer Learning Commons, curated by Christina Connor, Assessment and Instruction Librarian, of K–12 American history textbooks dating back to the 1820s.

Digital AHTP › 

Englewood Makes History

A collaborative history project on Englewood’s historic Fourth Ward was created by Associate Professor of Africana Studies David Colman, Principal Lamarr Thomas, and residents of Englewood, NJ.

Englewood Makes History ›

Jane Addams Papers Project

A scholarly editing project publishing the correspondence and writings of Jane Addams from 1901-1935 in a freely accessible digital edition and in a selected print edition. Working with editorial staff, Ramapo College students are building the site, adding documents, biographical information, educational resources, and data visualizations.

Jane Addams Papers Project ›

Mapping the Ramapough Munsee Lenape Nation

A collaborative digital mapping project created by Associate Professor of American Studies Sarah Koenig and Ramapough Munsee tribal member Muriyd “Two Clouds” Williams visualizing the history and legacy of the Ramapough Munsee people.

Mapping the Ramapough Munsee Lenape Nation ›

Memorializing Women: The Penny Colman Collection of Historical Landmarks of Women

A project to digitize, organize, and create thematic digital exhibits of the photographs and research of women’s historian Penny Colman, who for decades has traveled throughout the United States researching monuments and other historical landmarks of women.

The Penny Colman Collection ›