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The College of Liberal Arts is committed to the development of the digital humanities at Texas A&M University. College faculty have a long history of collaborative digital humanities research in many venues: through the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, participating in the Digital Humanities Working Group and the Digital Humanities Steering Committee, and through working with the Center for the Study of Digital Libraries and other groups outside the College. The current, incubating environment for digital humanities projects, built by the early pioneers in this field, has become the digital humanities commons.

The University has historically operated with a loose federated model, and the digital humanities are no exception. Through this site, the College hopes to preserve the freedom of that model while also recognizing the commons that everyone can share. The College also hopes to provide certain resources that can not be provided by any one department alone1.

Through these resources and synergies, the College is working to develop a digital research environment based on open standards and a robust toolset to allow faculty to create extensive and reusable digital collections capable of advancing research on digital humanities at the next level.

Several groups within the College also provide support to digital humanities faculty.

The Glasscock Center for Humanities Research provides some startup funding and supports inter-disciplinary communication through funding various working groups and other activities.

In September of 2006, Charles A. Johnson, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, appointed an ad hoc committee concerning digital humanities. At the recommendation of the committee, the Digital Humanities Program was created under the inaugural Director, Eduardo Urbina. The College also established a Digital Humanities Lead Developer position in the Dean’s Office to further strengthen support for digital humanities in the College.

The Digital Humanities Program encourages faculty to consider digital aspects of their research through a project approval process and facilitates efforts to gain access to internal resources and external grant support.

1 John Unsworth. Digital Humanities Centers as Cyberinfrastructure