Spatial Humanities
People and projects that approach Humanities questions through the lenses of space and landscape. GIS, GIScience, spatial analysis, text mining, networks and many others. Say hi if you want to be included!
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@geophilologist.bsky.social
@lscholz.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer (Assoc. Prof.) at Uni Manchester | History, Mapping & Data | lucascholz.com
@charlespletcher.org
Digital humanities, classical studies, and critical theory. I'm only, like, 50% this grumpy in real life.
@humap.bsky.social
🗺️ Bring your collections, data, and research to life with geospatial storytelling https://humap.me/ #GLAMA #DigitalHumanities #EdTech #CitizenScience #CitizenHumanities
@placesjournal.bsky.social
Architecture, landscape, urbanism. Independent nonprofit public scholarship on the built environment. Free & accessible to all. Read: http://placesjournal.org Sign up: placesjournal.org/newsletter Donate: https://placesjournal.org/donate/
@fdeblauwe.bsky.social
Mesopotamian archaeology (PhD UCLA); heritage (The Iraq War & Archaeology); digital humanities (Alexandria Archive Inst./Pleiades); spatial analysis of buildings; doodles; Belgian/American
@onslies.bsky.social
Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
@emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social
🗃️ Early Modern History at the University of York, FRHistS (and on Council) | 🎶 Music and post-Reformation Catholicism | 📚 Multilingualism, mobility, and exiled English convents | ✍️ Currently: Listening to Early Modern Travel Writing
@evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social
Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel at Helsinki (although I live in Sussex, UK). Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
@drchrishiggins.bsky.social
Head of History; Kent History Teacher of the Year; PhD (Birkbeck, London); research interests, women & travel in sixteenth/seventeenth century Europe & Countess of Arundel ‘Wide Wandring Weemen’ database: https://travellers.thedevroom.co.uk/
@catsporter.bsky.social
Geographer & Head of Subject @ULGeog.bsky.social | FHEA | IRC PI 'OS200' @IrelandMapped.bsky.social | Heritage Council PI 'Locating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage' | Historical Geography | Digital | GIS | DH | Spatial | Early Maps & Texts
@rmostern.bsky.social
World and Chinese history, environment and climate, space and place, World Historical Gazetteer, World History Association, Pitt World History Center. University governance nerd and union activist. Totorocialist, Bundist Jew, free 🇵🇸, 🏳️⚧️ally.
@dianajspencer.bsky.social
Dean of Liberal Arts & Natural Sciences, Birmingham (UK), Professor of Classics; When not at work, I'm home in Dublin (or Italy) 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 Personal account. Also @dianajspencer@mastodon.ie, @dianajspencer
@oneplacestudies.bsky.social
For excellence and enjoyable engagement in #OnePlaceStudies – where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite. Studying and celebrating places, their people, and their shared histories. Post about your OPS on #OnePlaceWednesday! www.one-place-studies.org
@joguldi.bsky.social
Professor of Quantitative Methods at Emory. Data scientist, writer, historian. Newest: The Long Land War (2022), The Dangerous Art of Text Mining (2023).
@mkschumacher.bsky.social
Digital Humanities @ University of Stuttgart, Themen: Computational Literary Studies, Public Humanities, Erzählforschung, Digital Gender Studies.
@epp.cdli.network
Data Engineer, Archaeology Data Service, University of York Research Associate, University of Oxford Co-Director, Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative https://cdli.earth Vegan, cyclist, data lover...
@jamiefolsom.bsky.social
Partner at @performant.bsky.social (Performant Software), developing software for the digital humanities. Boston, Vermont and sometimes Maine.
@mnotarian.bsky.social
Roman archaeologist / classicist / Big Lebowski enthusiast @Hiramcollege. Co-director www.sentinumproject.org. #DigitalArchaeology. #3D Modeling. Roman urbanism. Numismatics. Suburbium. Epigraphy.
@regan008.bsky.social
Asst Prof of History at Clemson. Co-Director of Mapping the Gay Guides. I study Fitness culture; history of women, gender, sexuality; digital history. She/her.
@layersoflondon.bsky.social
https://www.layersoflondon.org/ Mapping London's history & heritage through time using maps, images, films & Londoners' stories. Part of @chppc.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social
@vchlondon.bsky.social
Begun in 1899, the Victoria County History is an encyclopaedic record of England’s places & people. https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history
@chppc.bsky.social
Based in @ihr.bsky.social, @sasnews.bsky.social. Engaged, outward-facing and co-produced research into place and history: rural to urban & parish to metropolis. Home to Victoria County History & Layers of London. Posts by team.
@dgplacenames.bsky.social
Place-names, maps, languages. dgplacenames.wordpress.com auldnorse.wordpress.com/owersettins/
@adamwickberg.bsky.social
Director Centre of excellence for Anthropocene History at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. https://www.kth.se/anthropocenehistory Research on data and modelling of climate and environment in its social, political and historical dimensions
@fredericofreitas.org
Historian NC State. DH, Environment, LatAm. PhD: Stanford. BA: USP. Book http://www.cambridge.org/9781108844833. Brasileiro e Paulista. New project on Brasília (PT and EN)
@docuracy.co.uk
Technical Director & Lead Software Developer, World Historical Gazetteer @whgazetteer.org Research Associate, Unlocking Upcycled Medieval Data @ihr.bsky.social GIS Consultant, Layers of London @layersoflondon.bsky.social
@electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy
prof of DH at carleton u. Archaeologist of things Digital, Roman, and Outer Space. Editor of epoiesen.carleton.ca. Sometimes blog at […] [bridged from https://scholar.social/@electricarchaeo on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@ekotov.pro
Spatial Data Scientist, Doctoral Researcher #HumanMobility #geospatial @mpidr.bsky.social, @imprs-phds.bsky.social, @upf.edu #rspatial #rstats dev of #rstats github.com/rOpenSpain/spanishoddata 🌐: www.ekotov.pro datasci.social/@EgorKotov
@claireboardman.bsky.social
People/Places; Spatial/Cultural Informatics; Arch/Heritage Sci; Data & Design. PhD - WIP. Views own. Digital Trustee: @DunollieOban. Advisory Board: @goodorgcic.bsky.social (she/her)
@archaeofer.bsky.social
Roman archaeologist using Landscape Archaeology, Household Archaeology, GIS and Network Analysis. Roma Tre University ENG/ESP/ITA https://uniroma3.academia.edu/FernandoMorenoNavarro
@patymurrieta.bsky.social
🌟 Digital Humanist | Historical Archaeologist 📜 🤖 Developing #MachineLearning for Cultural Heritage 🐾 Proud mum of YubYub Commander (aka the cutest pupper) 🧸✨ 🌍 Co-director of DH Centre | FASS Director of #AI @LancasterUni #DigitalHumanities #NLP #Mexico
@sinai-rusinek.bsky.social
@kgeographer.bsky.social
Karl Grossner. Geographer, nomad (still), co-instigator and former lead dev of whgazetter.org #place, wannabe #stoic, looking into #folklore with AI-ish methods. On the move as usual. In Bloomington, IN for a spell.
@infralives.bsky.social
The official account of the ERC project Regionalizing Infrastructures in Chinese History (RegInfra) and the NWO project The Lives and Afterlives of Imperial Material Infrastructure in Southeastern China (InfraLives) https://www.infrastructurelives.eu/
@whgazetteer.org
WHG is a platform for linking records about historical places, allowing people to make spatial connections across time and language. Project Director: @rmostern.bsky.social Technical Director: @docuracy.co.uk #DH #LOD #DigitalHumanities #GIS #GIStory
@dh-dev.com
Tools for Digital Humanists, and web applications to publish their work. Spatializing catalogues, Digital editions, TEI-Pblisher, Omeka/s... DH related profile of @GilShalit.bsky.social .
@aboutgeo.bsky.social
A collector of things worth knowing and things not worth knowing. Freelance software developer. Web/UI/Maps/Visualization/Image Annotation/Open Source. https://rainersimon.io
@irelandmapped.bsky.social
@irishresearch @ahrcpress joint funded. Digitally Remapping Ireland's Ordnance Survey Heritage. @UniOfLimerick.bsky.social @QUBelfastOfficial.bsky.social @ULGeog.bsky.social @QUBGeography
@viabundus.bsky.social
This is the international viabundus-project, digitally recreating Northern Europe's route-network around 1500. 🇩🇪🇳🇱🇩🇰🇫🇮🇸🇪More on http://www.viabundus.eu
@performant.bsky.social
We partner with humanities scholars to build software tools for research and teaching. Also at @performant@mastodon.cloud https://www.performantsoftware.com/
@pelagios.bsky.social
The Pelagios Network (https://pelagios.org/) is a community of researchers, scientists and curators using Linked Data methods and tools to investigate the past.
@shgordin.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Assyriology and Digital Humanities at #DigitalPastsLab. Interested in NLP for ancient languages, History of the ANE, Human-machine coop and LOD #questseeker
@gimenadelr.bsky.social
Digital Humanities and Open Science in Argentina HD Lab: https://hdlab.space/ AAHD: http://aahd.net.ar/ Proud DOAJ Ambassador
@gretahawes.bsky.social
Mythologist, MANTOneer, MEep, Macquarier, needlewoman, gardener. Secretly just wants to be a cowgirl.
@emdigit.bsky.social
Account for the Early Modern Digital Itineraries Project, transforming printed itineraries into tools for understanding the history of travel 🧭 Find out more at https://emdigit.org
@toffolosandra.bsky.social
Historian of mobility, space, and the circulation of people, objects, and ideas in the early modern period, particularly Venice. Works at Italian-German Historical Institute, Trento
@nottinauta.bsky.social
Digital Humanities Lecturer at University of Sheffield Talks about LOD, Gazetteers, Digital Cultural Heritage, 3D, historical places.
@paregorios.bsky.social
Roman Historian and Human Digitalist. Works for NYU's https://isaw.nyu.edu, but lives in Pittsburgh. Editor/PI of the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places (https://pleiades.stoa.org). Primary social account: https://hcommons.social/@paregorios/
@nicolasperreaux.bsky.social
Medieval history & Data mining (CNRS LaMOP - Paris 1 Sorbonne). Medieval Europe, historical semantics, charters, Patrologia, AI, machine learning, text mining. Dir. CEMA (Cartae Europae Medii Aevi) and CARo (Corpus des actes royaux de la France médiévale).
@sebhth.bsky.social
Mediterranean & computational archaeologist. Spend time @ ISAW/NYU. Child of immigrants (though yeah, "homegrown"). Opinions/typos mine. Original work CC-By. Please reuse. DH(?) Knows no king.
@ardacraft.bsky.social
Minecraft build server recreating the world of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. Proud users of the Conquest Reforged mod. https://linktr.ee/ardacraft
@stuartdunn.bsky.social
Digital Humanist and Professor of Spatial Humanities, King's College London (@kingsdh.bsky.social). Also: Head of Humanities, @kingsartshums.bsky.social. Various other things too, e.g. @folkloresociety.bsky.social Council Member. https://stuartdunn.blog
@eltonteb.bsky.social
Prof of Greek Literature & Culture at The Open University | working-class Classicist | still delighting in Homer | dabbling in the digital | grappling with the politics of form & linked data | Pelagios partnership sec | hello to Jason | love the show Steve
@nowviskie.bsky.social
Dean, chief academic technology officer, and professor at a large, public American institution. Standard disclaimer: opinions offered here are solely mine.
@elijahmeeks.bsky.social
Principal Engineer at Confluent. Ex-Noteable, Apple, Netflix, Stanford. I write sometimes and talk too much.
@robkitchin.bsky.social
Prof, Maynooth Univ https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/rob-kitchin PI Data Stories https://datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/ Author: Researching Digital Life, Digital Timescapes, Data Lives, The Data Revolution PDFs papers/chs https: www.kitchin.org
@hildedw.bsky.social
Professor Chinese & Global History KULeuven | IISH Amsterdam global intellectual history | social history of infrastructures | digital research design https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9670-674X
@kmcdono.bsky.social
History + DH @ Lancaster University. MapReader. Formerly Living with Machines/Alan Turing Institute. Writing a book about people & highways in 18th c. France. https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/history/about/people/katherine-mcdonough
@walterscheidel.bsky.social
Historian @ Stanford | https://sites.google.com/view/walterscheidel/home
@rmidura.bsky.social
Digital historian of early modern Europe in Virginia. Posts on historical travel, mail, diplomats, spies 🕵️ Author of Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cornell, 2025). Now on #17thC conspiracy.
@sarahebond.bsky.social
Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/ Pasts Imperfect: https://pastsimperfect.substack.com
@geophilologist.bsky.social
#digitalhumanities, #classics, ancient geographies, text alignment, #machinelearning, and #Tolkien. Yogi and coffee drinker in my spare time.