In advance of ACH 2026, we'll be piloting a pre-conference virtual workshop series offering low-cost opportunities for teaching and learning on digital humanities topics that matter to the community. Note: workshops will be taught in English.

Schedule at a Glance

Monday, June 22, 2026

• DH Pedagogy Studio: Creative and Critical Assignment Design
  • 10am-5pm Eastern / 7am-2pm Pacific
  • 6 contact hours with a break from 1-2pm Eastern

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

• Get Started Preserving your Web Content and Data
  • 10am-5pm Eastern / 7am-2pm Pacific
  • 6 contact hours with a break from 1-2pm Eastern
• Envisioning DH at your Teaching-Focused Institution
  • 1-4pm Eastern / 10am-1pm Pacific
  • 3 contact hours

Registration Fees

Full day workshop - ACH member: $15
Full day workshop - Non-member: $25
Half day workshop - ACH member: $10
Half-day workshop - Non-member: $20

Workshop registration fees and processes are separate from the overall conference. Registering for a workshop does not come with conference registration, and vice versa. You may register to attend a pre-conference workshop without registering for the full ACH2026 conference. If you plan to attend the full conference, you must also register for that separately.

Registration Process

Registering for a workshop is a two-step process:

• Step 1: Complete the pre-registration form by May 22
• Step 2: Register and pay for the workshop via the conference registration website by June 17

Space is limited! To reserve your seat, complete our brief pre-registration interest form by May 22. Workshop organizers will contact you closer to the event with additional information about how to complete your registration process. We will maintain a wait list for each workshop.

Completing the pre-registration form does not commit you to paying for a workshop. You must complete the full registration process (details forthcoming) to attend a workshop, at which time your participation is expected. Those who do not complete the full registration process by June 17 may lose their spot. Individuals on the waitlist will be permitted to register as space allows.

You may register to attend a pre-conference workshop without registering for the full ACH2026 conference. If you plan to attend the full conference, you must also register for that separately.

Questions? Contact Pam Lach (plach AT sdsu DOT edu) and Brandon Walsh (bmw9t AT virginia DOT edu).

Workshop Details

DH Pedagogy Studio: Creative and Critical Assignment Design

Monday, June 22, 2026
10am-5pm Eastern / 7am-2pm Pacific
6 contact hours with a break from 1-2pm Eastern
Instructors: Danica Savonick and Chelcie Juliet Rowell
Enrollment Max: 25

Description
In this interactive workshop, you will design or revise a digital humanities assignment that fosters creativity, transferable skills, and critical engagement with digital platforms. Aimed at instructors new to or experienced in digital humanities pedagogy, the session combines short “lecture snacks” (40%) with hands-on activities (60%). During our time together you will:

• appreciatively examine sample assignments
• evaluate digital tools using a structured power analysis—e.g., who benefits, who is harmed, who makes decisions, and who is excluded
• iteratively design your own assignment

We will conclude with a “pedagogy jam session,” where you will share works-in-progress and offer feedback. Throughout, we will emphasize minimalist approaches—creating manageable, sustainable assignments for both students and instructors.

Bring an assignment idea or draft! You will leave with a plan for revision, including ideas for scaffolding and assessment.

Get Started Preserving your Web Content and Data

Tuesday, June 23, 2026
10am-5pm Eastern / 7am-2pm Pacific
6 contact hours with a break from 1-2pm Eastern
Instructors: Danica Savonick and Chelcie Rowell
Enrollment Max: 20 Instructors: Anna E. Kijas and Allison Fischbach

Description
In this workshop, participants will be introduced to concepts and best practices in web archiving and digital preservation. Aimed at participants who are brand new to or recently started working in web archiving and digital preservation, attendees will develop an understanding of the digital scholarship lifecycle, popular web archiving tools and approaches, and digital preservation practices. Brief instruction will be combined with hands-on activities and discussion to build an understanding of archiving and preservation concepts, provide time to practice approaches, and reflect on the application of various tools in their current roles.

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Describe the digital scholarship lifecycle;
• Explain basic web archiving concepts and practices;
• Describe basic digital preservation practices;
• Determine which concepts are most appropriate to their workflows or projects.

Participants are encouraged, but not required, to bring their personal DH projects and directly apply web archiving and preservation concepts and practices to their work.

Envisioning DH at your Teaching-Focused Institution

Tuesday, June 23, 2026
1-4pm Eastern /10am-1pm Pacific
3 contact hours
Instructors: Mackenzie K. Brooks and Lisa Boutin-Vitela
Enrollment max: 25 max

Description
In this workshop, attendees will develop a vision for Digital Humanities at their teaching-focused institution. The workshop will involve identifying and setting goals, conducting an environmental scan, and sharing best practices. Instructors will provide perspectives from their community college and small liberal arts college settings. Discussion topics will include space, funding (including grants), managing projects, partnerships, tools for teaching, and working with faculty, students, and staff. Attendees will leave the workshop with an articulated set of goals and strategies for moving forward. This workshop is intended for DH practitioners of all levels (DH could be in your job title or just one of a long list of job responsibilities).

Learning outcomes:
Attendees will be able to…

• Develop a vision for DH at a teaching-focused institution.
• Identify strategies for building a community of practice.
• Articulate next steps for achieving the goals of DH initiatives/projects at their institution.

Meet our Instructors

Lisa Boutin-Vitela

Lisa Boutin-Vitela is Professor of Art History at Cerritos Community College in Norwalk, California. At Cerritos College, she teaches art history courses and also serves as co-chair of the Women’s and Gender Studies Department. In terms of DH, she has contributed to digital projects related to the Renaissance collector Isabella d’Este. She was a participant in a Digital Art History workshop at George Mason University funded by the Getty Foundation and received an EPIC fellowship through Global Studies at Stanford University focused on incorporating digital projects into research projects. She also completed a sabbatical project focused on researching digital humanities and digital innovation spaces in a variety of educational institutions.

Mackenzie K. Brooks

Mackenzie K. Brooks is Professor & Digital Humanities Librarian at Washington and Lee University. At W&L, she is the Program Head for the Digital Culture and Information minor, leads DH initiatives on campus, and teaches courses on humanities data, born digital archives, and scholarly editing. Previously, she worked as Metadata Librarian at W&L and at Loyola University Chicago. She received her MLIS from Dominican University. Her research focuses on digital pedagogy, text encoding and publication, and metadata.

Allison Fischbach

Allison Fischbach is Digital Repositories Manager at the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries where she oversees digital access to scholarly and archival collections and leads the development of digital preservation policy. Previously she worked as Digital Archivist at the Hopkins Chesney Medical Archives and in the Special Collections and Archives at Towson University. She received her MLIS from the University of Maryland. Her work focuses on open, ethical, and sustainable access in institutional repositories and digital archival collections.

Anna E. Kijas

Anna E. Kijas is Assistant Director of Digital Scholarship and Lilly Music Library at Tufts University. She co-founded Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online, an initiative focused on safeguarding and preserving the digital cultural heritage of Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War. Anna's work is centered on principles of social justice, access, and sustainability in relation to digital humanities, historical (music) research, cultural heritage, and information studies. Recent publications include a co-authored chapter, “Nimble Tents and Bunkers: The Role of Libraries in Rapid-Response DH,” in The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities and open-access digital projects, including Documenting Teresa Carreño and Rebalancing the Music Canon. She has served in numerous leadership roles, including as the Administrative Chair of the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) Board (2022-present), Executive Council Representative for the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) (2019-2023) and as founding co-chair of the MEI Digital Pedagogy Interest Group (2020-2024).

Chelcie Juliet Rowell

Chelcie Juliet Rowell is Associate Head of Digital Collections Discovery at Harvard Library and the GLAM Skills Research Fellow for the Summer Educational Institute for Digital Stewardship of Visual Information. They received their MSIS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Their research interests include ethical stewardship, digital project sustainability, and digital humanities pedagogy.

Danica Savonick

Danica Savonick is Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies at SUNY Cortland. Her research and teaching focus on multicultural and African American literature, women writers, feminist pedagogy, and digital humanities. She is the author of Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College (Duke University Press, 2024). Her research has appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, MELUS, American Literature, Radical Teacher, Keywords for Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities, Public Books, and The Chronicle of Higher Ed. She is an editor of The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy and a special topics editor of Reviews in DH focused on social justice pedagogies.