About the Digital Humanities Center

Exterior room sign labeled 61 Digital Humanities Center


The Digital Humanities Center is a unique place on campus that brings people together across the disciplines. We advance critical digital literacy through exploration, experimentation, and play. We encourage throughtful engagement with, through, and against emerging digital technologies, always keeping humans at the center of our work. The DH Center is a transformable, multi-modal open area for all members of the SDSU community to experience. We are home to mulitple professional-grade podcast production studios, and the host of many collaborative works and events relating to the digital humanities. 
Two sets of open double doors with a banner that reads Digital Humanities Center surrounded by colorful dots
Two sets of open double doors with a sign above that reads Media Center
The DH Center officially opened its doors in November 2017, transforming the Library's former Media Center into the space we know today. Read more about the history of the DHC and broader DH Initiative.
Small groups of college students having an avid class discussion
The DH Center was created through a series of community design sessions with faculty, staff, and students in 2016-2017. Together, we imagined the DH Center as a collaborative, ever-shifting space of possibilities for our interdisciplinary work. The DH Center was intentionally designed to be flexible and responsive, shifting configurations to meet the needs and curiosity of our community. Through ongoing formal and informal design sessions, we continue building new studios and spaces as new technologies arise. We are a national leader in podcasting, support a growing electronic-literature program, advance digital ethnic studies, and contribute to a range of digital pedagogy approaches and resources. 

Read more about the DH Center:
  1. Pamella R. Lach, “Centering our Values: A Framework for Digital Humanities in the Library,” in Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists, Revised Second Edition, eds. Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Laura Braunstein, Liorah Golomb. Association of College and Research Libraries, 2024, pp 43-68. https://doi.org/10.17613/t8eh-p365 
  2. Pamella R. Lach and Jessica Pressman, “Digital Infrastructures: People, Place, and Passion, a Case Study of SDSU,” in People, Practice, Power: Digital Humanities Outside the Center, eds. Anne McGrail, Angel David Nieves, and Siobhan Senier. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021, pp 189-201.
  3. Pamella Lach, “Launching a Library Digital Humanities Center: Reflections and Lessons Learned,” Library Connect (October 2019): n.p.

The Digital Humanities Center website was redesigned by Sydney Bowen in 2026.