Deep Mapping and the Spatial Humanities

In 2012, the Virtual Center for Spatial Humanities (VCSH) held an advanced institute in Indianapolis, Indiana, on spatial narratives and deep maps. Sponsored by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a U.S. government agency that funds humanities research, the institute invited twelve scholars—seven from the U.S. and five from Europe—whose work at the intersection of digital technologies and their disciplinary domains (history, religious studies, literary studies, geography and geographic information science, archaeology, and museum studies) promised to advance an institute aim of re-envisioning the theories and technologies of spatialization to serve the needs of humanities research more completely.