Projects
At the Center for Research Frontiers in the Digital Humanities, we work collaboratively with educators, researchers, students, and other schools to create projects that combine innovative technology with both the liberal arts and sciences. Check out some of our projects!
Digital Exhibits
A series of exhibits at the Kraemer Family Library which preserve and celebrate the campus community and the community of Colorado Springs. They attempt to leave attendees with a deeper understanding of their context and a more expansive way of thinking about how contextually specific stories can be told.
Illuminating the Past
Initially designed as an NEH Summer Institute on multispectral imaging and non-destructive cultural heritage preservation, the projected pivoted with federal funding changes in April 2025. Now, anyone interested in starting their own multispectral imaging project can follow a complete tutorial online.
Urban Animations
A project by CRFDH Affiliate, John Harner. Here we share geographic information system (GIS) images documenting Colorado Springs’ urban development from 1860 to 2021. Professor Harner created this through archival research at the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum. We’ve included five themed collections of animated maps that visualize the city’s evolution across dimensions including urban growth, infrastructure development, population changes, street grid patterns, and transportation routes.
Graphic Medicine
An analysis of the Graphic Medicine comics and the representation of empathy towards patients from medical students through graphic narratives.
Historia Cartarum
A comprehensive collection of resources related to medieval maps and mapping, serving as a valuable guide for scholars, students, and enthusiasts interested in cartography during the medieval period.
The Lazarus Project
A collaborative, interdisciplinary initiative that brings together experts to recover the lost stories of our collective past and fill in the gaps in the record of human knowledge.
Multispectral Imaging
The practice of taking multiple images of the same object in several different wavelength bands to reveal physical characteristics lost to time.
Videntes
A cross-disciplinary collective of scholars, which uses multispectral imaging and photogrammetry to recover things lost or unseen in medieval manuscripts.