VCDH supports and encourages the use of digital technologies for scholarship and teaching. We do this on a number of fronts. By employing graduate and undergraduate students, VCDH allows them explore the ways that technology can enhance their own scholarly work, while teaching them the skills that will enable them to produce their own digital projects.

Aaron C. Sheehan-Dean
(Graduate Arts & Sciences '99)

"Working in a collegial fashion with top scholars is terrific and impossible to find elsewhere. We are continually challenging each other on the work we do here, which carries over into our own research."
-Aaron C. Sheehan-Dean
(Graduate Arts & Sciences '99)


"At VCDH I learned a number of things that I could never have learned in a 'traditional' history course: how to read, digitize, and archive primary sources online; how to create and design a Web site in HTML; and how to create a narrative in hypertext that allows the browser to participate in the narrative -building process"
-Sonja Czarnecki (College '98)

"The intellectual climate at VCDH has challenged me to question traditional divisions between political, economic, and social history as well as between public and academic history. VCDH has provided me with the technological skills, which will allow me to create additional research and teaching projects in the rest of my career as a historian."
- Susanna Lee (Graduate Arts & Sciences '99)


Sonja Czarnecki (College '98)


Susanna Lee
(Graduate Arts & Sciences '99)