For some, history is not in the books.
Todd Presner
Professor of Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature & Jewish Studies
Humanities Associate Professor Todd Presner is redefining the way we assimilate culture and history by adding an interactive spin on a usually static subject. His Hypercities project is a research and educational platform that provides users with an immersive, 3D experience to explore the streets, buildings and landscapes of cities from the present day to how they existed hundreds of years in the past. In doing so, Presner fused geospatial web applications, digital publications, temporality, GIS and technical media鈥損ioneering the digital humanities. He鈥檚 also the first professor to provide an interactive, hypermedia educational environment鈥揺arning him a MacArthur prize for 鈥渄igital media and learning,鈥� as well as becoming the first recipient of a Google Digital Humanities Research Award.