Summary

GIS in the Humanities: Towards an educational strategy in Britain and America.

Recent years have seen a dramatic rise in interest in the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in historical research and this is increasingly spreading into other disciplines in the humanities including Literary Studies, Religious Studies, and Linguistics. A major stumbling block to the wide-spread adoption of Humanities GIS, as it is increasingly called, is a lack of skills in spatial literacy amongst potential users. This problem occurs at all levels from senior academics who are interested in managing such projects, to junior researchers, and post-graduate students. This fellowship draws on expertise in Britain and the US to investigate how we can enhance the teaching of spatial literacy on both sides of the Atlantic.