Box 90766, Smith Warehouse, Bay 10, Durham, NC 27708

(email)

Education

M.A. and Ph.D. in English	University of Rochester	2000
Ph.D.	University of Rochester	2000
Certificate in Gender and Women's Studies	University of Rochester	1996
M.A.	University of Rochester	1996
M.A.	Indiana University at Bloomington	1992
B.A.	Williams College	1990

Areas of Research

new media, visual studies, digital humanities, digital heritage

Areas of Interest

virtual worlds
digital mapping
games
database driven narratives
experience design

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University

Program Director, Information Science + Information Studies, August 01, 2006 - August 31, 2009

Staff adminstrative director.

Stanford University

Academic Technology Manager and IHUM Lecturer, Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, 2001 - 2006

Academic Technology program manager and team leader. Also Lecturer in the Introduction to the Humanities Program. http://ihum.stanford.edu

Academic Technology Specialist, Introduction to the Humanities/Stanford University Libraries, 1999 - 2001

Grinnell College

Instructional Multimedia Specialist, 1997 - 1998

University of Rochester

Electronic Editor and Library Assistant, Robbins Library, 1992 - 1996

Electronic editor for TEAMS Medieval Teaching Texts Series and The Camelot Project Arthurian archive.

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Director, Duke Digital Humanities Initiative, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
Co-Director, FHI GreaterThanGames Lab, Franklin Humanities Institute, April, 2011
Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship, University of Virginia Scholar's Lab/NEH, May, 2010
Co-Convener, Interdisciplinary Working Group - Experiencing Virtual Worlds, Franklin Humanities Institute, 2009-2010; renewed for 2010-11
Grant: RENCI VIsualization Grant, Renaissance Computing Institute, 2010

Recent Grant Support

• Exhibiting Hidden Histories: Bringing Projects to Publics through Digital Exhibitions and XR, J. Paul Getty Trust, 2022/11-2024/12.      
• A Virtual Sense of Place - African American Urbanism, Johnson C. Smith University, 2021/03-2024/08.      

Professional Service

Chair, Chair. Art Advisory Group. ACM SIGGRAPH. 2019, 1 January 2019  

Chair, Chair. Art Papers. SIGGRAPH Asia. 2022 - 2023, 2022-23  

Selected Recent Invited Talks

Contested Histories: Cultural Heritage and the Digital Archive, Collegeville, PA, 30 October 2018  

Collaborative Approaches to Modeling the Past in 3D/VR: The Interdisciplinary Lab Model for Teaching, Research, and Public Outreach, Norman, Oklahoma, 8 March 2018  

The Future of Digital Teaching and Learning, Delmenhorst, Germany, 15 November 2017  

Humanities, Science & Technology: The Interdisciplinary Lab and the City, Venice International University, 20 September 2017  

Visualizing the City: Objects, Landscapes, Networks, Barcelona, Spain, 5 July 2017  

Cultural Approaches to Digital Heritage, Rochester, NY, 2 March 2017  

Visualizing Venice: Digital Cultural Heritage Concepts and Opportunities, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1 November 2016  

Augmented Reality Experience Design for Digital Heritage, Padua, Italy, 21 June 2016  

Augmented Reality Experience Design for Digital Heritage., Padua, Italy, 10 June 2015  

The Presence of the Past: Augmented Reality for Digital Heritage, Lewisburg, PA, 26 March 2015  

Wired! Approaches to Digital Scholarship (with Kristin Lanzoni), Philadelphia, PA, 21 October 2014  

On Site and On Location: Digital Heritage and the 21st Century Museum, Barcelona, Spain, 26 June 2014  

he Lives of Places and Cities: New models of representation and their conceptual implications for the past and present (with Caroline Bruzelius), Padua, Italy, 1 June 2014  

Visualizing the Past: Database-Driven Exploration in Hybrid Reality Systems, Chicago, IL, 1 January 2014  

Critical Media Studies: Hybrid Reality Systems, Duke University, 8 August 2013  

Plenary Session IV: Digital Future: The Research Teaching Nexus. (with Katherine Rowe), Charlotte, NC, June 29, 2013  

Visualizing Venice panel presentation at "Florentia Illustrata. Digital Mapping and Techniques of Visualizing the Pre-modern Italian City.", Florence, Italy, 17 June 2013  

"Building the Digital City: New Media Theory Meets Digital Humanities Practice" at HASTAC 2013., Toronto, Ontario, April 27, 2013  

Building the Digital City: New Media Theory Meets Digital Humanities Practice at HASTAC 2013., Toronto, Ontario, 27 April 2013  

Social Media ad Art Markets: Amateurism and Expertise, Duke Art, Law and Markets Meeting, Duke University, 31 October 2012  

The City Talks Back: Traversing Annotated Landscapes, Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, Kitchener, Ontario, 28 September 2012  

Digital Cities, Mapping a Common Platform: Digital Cartography in the FHI Humanities Labs, Duke University, 9 September 2012  

Visualizing Art, Law, and Markets, College Arts Association, Los Angees CA, 24 February 2012  

Digital Durham 3.0, CHAT Festival 2012, 6 February 2012  

Digital Humanities as the Object of New Media Studies Critique, Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA, 7 January 2012  

The Ethics of Virtual Cultural Representation (Poster Session), Big Tent Digital Humanities Conference, Stanford, CA, 20 June 2011  

Writing in 3D: Immersive Virtual Writing as Authorship and Critique, NC Symposium on the Teaching of Writing, 5 February 2011  

Analog and Digital: Texts, Contexts, and Networks, special session organizer, Modern Language Association conference, Los Angeles, CA, 7 January 2011  

Virtual Worlds and Community Medicine, Graduate Medical Education, Duke University School of Medicine, 12 July 2010  

Visual Studies and Digital Humanities, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 30 March 2010  

Games and Digital Storytelling, moderator, CHAT Festival, Chapel Hill, NC, 17 February 2010  

Avatar: Techno-Embodiment(?), John Hope Franklin Center, Durham, NC, 22 January 2010  

A Primer for Digital Media Authorship, MLA Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 29 December 2009  

Virtual World Building as Collaborative Knowledge Production: The Online Crystal Palace, MLA Convention 2009, Philadelphia, PA, 28 December 2009  

Multimedia Mapping for Research and Discovery in Muhuru Bay, Kenya, Educause, Denver, CO, 5 November 2009  

Teaching and Learning in Second Life, CIT Lunchtime Demonstration (Duke), 1 May 2009  

Multimedia Mapping for Engagement and Discovery, CIT Instructional Technology Showcase, 3 April 2009  

Digital Media Writing as Academic Authorship, New Media Consortium Conference, Princeton, NJ, 13 June 2008  

Second Life in Undergraduate Education at Duke, CIT Instructional Technology Showcase, 24 April 2008  

Designing and Implementing Podcasting (Webcast), Academic Impressions - Online, 6 January 2008  

Publications

Articles Published

1. Szabo, V, Evaluating XR: Standards for an emerging DH medium, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 36 no. Supplement_2 (October, 2021), pp. II273-II276, Oxford University Press (OUP)
2. Szabo, V, Critical and creative approaches to digital cultural heritage with augmented reality, in The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media Art (July, 2020), pp. 448-461, ISBN 9780367197162
3. Jaskot, P; Jacobs, H; Szabo, V; Olson, M; Triplett, E, Shaping the Discipline of Digital Art History: A recap of an advanced summer institute on 3-D and (geo)spatial networks (December, 2018), The Iris: Behind the Scenes at the Getty
4. Szabo, V, Knowledge in 3D: How 3D data visualization is reshaping our world (July, 2018), Parameters: Knowledge Under Digital Conditions. Social Science Research Council.
5. Szabo, V, Apprehending the Past: Augmented Reality, Archives, and Cultural Memory, in The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities, vol. 1 (May, 2018), Routledge, ISBN 9781138844308
6. Szabo, V, Psychasthenia studio and the gamification of contemporary culture, Media and Communication, vol. 6 no. 2 (January, 2018), pp. 90-102, Cogitatio
7. Szabo, V, Guidebooks and mobile applications: a new mode of communication., in Visualizing Venice Mapping and Modeling Time and Change in a City (October, 2017), Routledge, ISBN 9781138285996
8. Szabo, V, Visualizing Venice summer workshops for for graduate students and beginning scholars., in Visualizing Venice Mapping and Modeling Time and Change in a City (April, 2017), Routledge, ISBN 9781138285996
9. Szabo, V; Lacedelli, SZ; Pompanin, G, From Landscape to Cities: A Participatory Approach to the Creation of Digital Cultural Heritage, International Information and Library Review, vol. 49 no. 2 (April, 2017), pp. 115-123
10. Szabo, V, Introduction, ACM SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, SIGGRAPH 2015, vol. 48 no. 4 (July, 2015), pp. 328-329, ISSN 0024-094X
11. Szabo, V, Introduction, vol. 48 (January, 2015), pp. 328-329, MIT Press - Journals
12. Lanzoni, K; Olson, M; Szabo, V, Wired! and Visualizing Venice: Scaling up Digital Art History, Artl@s Bulletin, vol. 4 no. 1 (2015), pp. 20-39
13. Szabo, V, Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History, AMERICAN LITERATURE, vol. 87 no. 2 (2015), pp. 418-420, ISSN 0002-9831
14. Szabo, V, From Literature to Biterature: Lem, Turing, Darwin, and Explorations in Computer Literature, Philosophy of Mind, and Cultural Evolution, AMERICAN LITERATURE, vol. 87 no. 2 (2015), pp. 418-420, ISSN 0002-9831
15. Timothy, J; Wiencek, F; Szabo, V, Digital Cities: A collaborative engagement with urban heritage, Proceedings of the DigitalHeritage 2013 - Federating the 19th Int'l VSMM, 10th Eurographics GCH, and 2nd UNESCO Memory of the World Conferences, Plus Special Sessions fromCAA, Arqueologica 2.0 et al., vol. 2 (December, 2013), pp. 349-352, IEEE
16. with Szabo, VE; Senior, T; Wiencek, F, Digital Cities: A Collaborative Engagement with Urban Heritage, in Proceedings of the 2013 International Digital Heritage Congress, IEEE Catalog Number: CFP1308W-USB, vol. 2 (November, 2013), pp. 349-352, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., ISBN 978-1-4799-3169-9 (Digital Heritage 2013 Scientific Papers Proceedings from 28-31 October in Marseilles, Frances.)
17. Szabo, V, Introduction, Leonardo, vol. 46 no. 4 (August, 2013), pp. 389, MIT Press - Journals, ISSN 0024-094X
18. Szabo, VE, XYZN: Scale, Leonardo, vol. 46 no. 4 (2013), pp. 386-417, ISSN 0024-094X (Special Issue for SIGGRAPH 2013.)
19. Szabo, VE, Transforming Art History Research with Database Analytics: Visualizing Art Markets, Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, vol. 31 no. 2 (Fall, 2012), pp. 158-175
20. Jenson, D; Szabo, V; Team, TDFHIHHLSR, Cholera IN Haiti, edited by Control, CFD; Prevention,, Emerging Infectious Diseases, vol. 17 no. 11 (November, 2011), pp. 2130-2135, CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL, 1600 Clifton Rd NE Mailstop D61 Atlanta, GA 30333, ISSN 1080-6059 (http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1711.110958.)
21. Hansen, MBN; Mitchell, WJT, Introduction, in Critical Terms for New Media (2010), pp. 328-329, ISBN 9781450333238
22. Szabo, V, On the Algerian Sands: Reviving Cigarette in Under Two Flags, in Nineteenth-century Women at the Movies Adapting Classic Women's Fiction to Film (January, 1999), Popular Press, ISBN 9780879728052
23. Szabo, V; Jones, AD, The Uninvited Guest: Erase of Women in Ordinary People, in Vision/re-vision Adapting Contemporary American Fiction by Women to Film (1996), Popular Press, ISBN 9780879727147

Other

1. Szabo, VE; Rudinsky, J, Psychasthenia 2 (February, 2012)
2. Technology, MLACFI, Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media (January, 2012) (Modern Language Association Committee for Information Technology Advisory Guide.)
3. Szabo, VE, Augmented Reality Gallery Guide, CHAT Festival 2012 (2012)
4. Szabo, VE, Augmented SIGGRAPH/Vancouver (August, 2011) (Augmented Reality experience juxtaposing Art Gallery work with local Vancouver sights via an augmented reality browser..)
5. Szabo, VE, Assistant Editor, Special Issue, Leonardo, vol. 44 no. 4 (August, 2011), MIT Press, ISSN 0024-094X (special issue.)
6. Rudinsky, J; Szabo, V; Copolsky, J; Mark Robinson, EK, Psychasthenia (February, 2010)
7. with Szabo, VE; Lerner, Z; Tobin, M; Poplawski, E; Michal Koszycki, LK, Virtual Duke Tour (2010)
8. with Szabo, VE; Broverman, S; student, N; collaborators, C, Multimedia Mapping: Muhuru Bay (2010)
9. Szabo, VE, Kenan Institute for Ethics "Good Question" Brochure (Spring, 2010)
10. Dobin, H; al, E, Technology Fluency and its Place in Liberal Education, Teagle Foundation White Paper (2007)

Others

1. Szabo, V; Rudinsky, J, Psychasthenia 3: Dupes (2018)
2. Szabo, V; Rudinsky, J, Psychasthenia 2 (2012)
3. Szabo, V; Jenson, D; Cloninger, E; Corbett, P; Hoyle, M; Ivker, J; Jernigan, E; Mitril, S; Neville, A; Patel, D; Duke University Haiti Laboratory, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, , 19th-Century Caribbean Cholera Timemap (2011)