Austin Mason

Dr. Austin Mason is founding Director of the Digital Arts & Humanities minor program, Assistant Director of the Humanities Center for Digital Humanities, and Lecturer in History at Carleton College, where his responsibilities include integrating digital methods deeply into the Liberal Arts curriculum and co-supervising Digital Humanities Associate and Digital Scholarship Intern undergraduate programs. He holds a PhD in History from Boston College, with an emphasis on religious history, material culture, archaeology, spatial humanities and the digital humanities, and an M.St. in Medieval British History from Oxford University. His work has been supported by grants from the ACLS, Mellon Foundation, and National Endowment for the Humanities, among others. He is the co-PI for an NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant to develop the Virtual Viking Longship Project: A Study in the Future of Liberal Arts Teaching and Research. He teaches courses on the history of early medieval Europe, experimental archaeology, and Digital Humanities methods, and is currently working on a number of DH initiatives ranging from photogrammetry and 3D scanning to GIS, Virtual Reality, and educational video game projects.