Our Research
Dictionary of Art Historians
The Dictionary of Art Historians started as a long-standing private research tool which joined the Wired! Lab in 2017. As an open-source public database, it…
Blue Devil Herbarium
The Duke Herbarium is slated to be rehomed at another institution in a couple of years. This decision has raised questions both at Duke and…
Mapping Occupied Krakow
As is well known, Krakow became a key location within the National Socialist plan for military expansion and the implementation of genocide in Eastern Europe…
Visualizing Lovecraft’s Providence
This project explores the use of historical and cultural visualization techniques to instantiate the imagined Providence, Rhode Island of author H.P. Lovecraft. H.P. Lovecraft famously…
World Building at Duke in an Emerging Durham: 1924-1932
This project is part of the 2023-2024 Bass Connections Duke’s Centennial popup theme. The establishment of the Duke Endowment in 1924 enabled the massive building…
Our research forms the dynamic center of our teaching, lab work, and outward-facing scholarship. Three thematic areas connect our research: study of objects, consideration of cultural spaces and systems, and questions of the scale of cultural analysis.
