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Starting in Fall 2020, Clemson history majors will have the option to enroll in a 15 credit undergraduate digital history emphasis area. Basic digital methods will increasingly be used by all historians and museum professionals and are relevant to many other fields.
Digital history includes:
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Graduate
Digital history utilizes computer technology to foster new ways to collaboratively collect, preserve, and share historic artifacts and voices with a variety of publics. The creation of computational methodologies also provides historians with new ways of developing and investigating historical research questions. It allows historians to conduct textual, spatial, and network analysis and visualize these results over time and space. This type of research training will become necessary for historians of the future who will conduct research in digital archives and examine emails, social media posts, and other digital sources. Historians must be able to recognize the built-in biases of digitized collections and the algorithms used to create and access their content.
In the Spring of 2019, the Clemson Board of Trustees approved a new Ph.D. program in Digital History. The program as currently envisioned will accept students with master's degrees, not necessarily in history, and require them to do a field in digital history, a major field in some area of history, and a minor field, usually in an area of history. More information will be available after final approval. If you are interested in learning more about opportunities for faculty or as an inaugural student, please contact Dr. Douglas Seefeldt at wseefel@clemson.edu.
Current Digital History Faculty: