The best collaborations start before you have it figured out. Please come with a tingling of an idea, a half-formed question, a sense of an aesthetic, or a project you’re not sure is even possible. We want to help brainstorm possibilities from the outset!
Whether you’re a teacher looking for a digital home for a class project, a student bringing an assignment to life, or a researcher showcasing your latest work, we can help you move from idea to reality.
We’re especially eager to help faculty and students explore how AI tools lower the floor and raise the ceiling of the technical components to digital humanities work. You don’t need a technical background or a fully formed idea—just a question or a hunch. Maybe you have a collection of texts you’d like to search in new ways, or you’re wondering whether AI could help students engage differently with primary sources.
If you’re wondering what AI can actually do for humanities work, our AI + Humanities page walks through real use cases—from searching across archival collections to helping students build projects that would have required a development team a few years ago. And if you’re skeptical or cautious about AI (good—you should be), our AI Fluency page makes the case that humanists are better prepared for this moment than they realize. The critical skills you already have—evaluating sources, recognizing bias, asking whose voices are missing—are exactly what separates meaningful AI use from mechanical AI use.
If you’re more of a scheduler, use our bookings page. This also helps ensure you get dedicated attention, especially during crunch times of the semester. Please describe as much as you can what you’re interested in discussing or doing so we can be most prepared to help.
Many grants—from the NEH, Mellon, NSF, and others—now expect or encourage a public engagement component: a way for research to reach audiences beyond the academy. We can help you design and build that component.
If you’re writing a grant proposal, we can work with you to plan a realistic digital deliverable—a project website, a collection of ScrollStory essays, an interactive archive, an oral history series—and provide a credible description of the technical infrastructure and support for your proposal. We’ve helped faculty articulate digital components that strengthen applications by demonstrating concrete plans for public impact.
If you already have funding, we can serve as a production partner for the public-facing side of your project. We provide the design thinking, technical infrastructure, and hands-on support to turn research into something that communicates to a broader audience—without requiring your team to learn web development or manage hosting. Everything we build is open-source, sustainable, and yours to keep.
This kind of collaboration works best when it starts early. If you’re even thinking about a grant that might have a digital or public-facing dimension, reach out—the earlier we can talk about possibilities, the stronger the proposal.