A presentation exploring various digital humanities projects focused on social justice.

1. Near final photogrammetry solve for the Temple of Bel in Palmyra. Part of the
Arc/k Project’s 3D cultural heritage reconstruction work for the site.
Digital
Humanities
and Social
Justice
Sarah E. Bond & Tom Keegan
@SarahEBond & @tmkeegan
University of Iowa

2. “To my mind, the most significant contribution
of digital humanities is to developing and
sustaining the digital cultural record of
humanity. We can debate about definitions and
methods, but, fundamentally, the faculty,
librarians, archivists, students, and those who
work in galleries and museums who are
equipped with digital humanities skills are
uniquely poised to assemble this digital cultural
record.”
-- Roopika Risam, Salem State University
Critical DH / Social Justice and the Digital
Humanities

3. “The postulate of social justice is that a society is responsible
for the underserved suffering of its members. From this one
may draw the conclusion that society as a whole should repair
the deprivation and should construct social means to ensure
that such harm is avoided.”
-- K.D. Irani, Social Justice in the Ancient World, 4.
Bronze dupondius of Tiberius (22-23 CE). Obverse: IVSTITIA - Bust of
woman as Justice (Image via the American Numismatic Society under a CC-
BY-NC 4.0).

4. Greek Manumissions Project
(IATH; Elizabeth Meyer)

5. Addressing Social Justice
Through Material Culture:
The Case of Monticello

6. Digital Archaeological Archive of
Comparative Slavery
(Monticello, NEH, Mellon)

8. Graphic from 2015, showing number of
deaths of workers in Qatar as compared
to other major sporting events. Image via
the Washington Post.

9. Augmented Reality, 3D Modeling, And Photogrammetry

10. • Humanitarian UAV Network:
Unmanned aerial vehicles and
humanitarian aid [Draft code of
conduct].
• Issues for UAV (and, really, all
DH Projects:
• 1. Code of Conduct
• 2) Data Ethics
• 3) Community Engagement
• 4) Principled Partnerships
• 5) Conflict Sensitivity.
Aerial model of a refugee camp (likely
in Syria, but the exact location is
undisclosed) using a UAV (DJI
Phantom 2 Vision+) and Sketchfab.
The goal is to facilitate better camp
management.

11. CyArk and Trimbl’s Atlantic Slave Trade Project
(Using Trimble RealWorks for point cloud
processing, Sketchup and GIS)

15. GIS and Visualization
Colored Conventions Project, interactive map of
conference attendees using StoryMapJS

16. Mapping the names and identifying data
of the Jews who lived in Lviv ghetto
“gives scholars a clearer understanding
of how the Holocaust was perpetrated at
the local level.”
Map courtesy of Waitman Beorn,
Department of History, University of
Virginia.

17. Visualizing Emancipation

18. Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis

19. WOAH: Women of Ancient History

22. The bullet points of the
1977 study on the status
of Women and Minorities
in the field.
APA Newsletter
Spring 1978
2013-2014 SCS Study

25. Arlene Roberts Morris graduated from the
University of Iowa in 1946, and later earned
an M.A. in psychology from Drake University
in Des Moines. She worked as a clinical
psychologist at Broadlawns Medical Center
from 1967 to 1991. She was the first African-
American woman psychologist to be licensed
by the Iowa State Board of Psychology.
The University Of Iowa and
Digital Social Justice

26. Equity at Iowa

28. A screenshot from the ‘Mapping Decline
website’ developed by historian Colin Gordon
and the University of Iowa Libraries.
Mapping Decline

29. An interactive map of Washington D.C. in
1860 shows the segregation of people of
color within the city through a new
project called 'Placing Segregation’
by Rob Shepard

30. Women read in
the Latin Library
U. of Iowa,
Iowa City, Iowa
1928
Thank You!