What GIS Can Do for the Humanities

GIS provides a framework for us to organize our knowledge – geographically. GIS reveals patterns, relationships and processes – broadens our knowledge and deepens our understanding. GIS helps us conceptualize, represent and communicate ideas – reconstruct history, illustrate the present, or plan for the future.

What GIS Can Do for the Humanities GIS provides a framework for us to organize our knowledge – geographically. GIS reveals patterns, relationships and processes – broadens our knowledge and deepens our understanding. GIS helps us conceptualize, represent and communicate ideas – reconstruct history, illustrate the present, or plan for the future.

Mapping the US Southeast during the Civil War

Modeling Population Distribution in Chinese History: a case study of Zhejiang Province in twelfth century

Methodology - Four Modules: Locate urbanized area Estimate the population of each urbanized area Outline the extent of each urbanized area Distribute rural population

What GIS Can Do for the Humanities GIS provides a framework for us to organize our knowledge – geographically. GIS reveals patterns, relationships and processes – broadens our knowledge and deepens our understanding. GIS helps us conceptualize, represent and communicate ideas – reconstruct history, illustrate the present, or plan for the future.

Africa Map: A Framework to Support Collaborative Research and Teaching Build a common online resource which people can use to: a) map Africa at high resolution, b) see the whole of Africa yet also zoom to particular places, c) accumulate contemporary and historical data supplied by researchers and make it permanently accessible online, d) work collaboratively with spatial information about Africa.

Africa Map: A Framework to Support Collaborative Research and Teaching

Mike McCormick Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History FAS Department of History A Web-Based Geodatabase for Teaching and Researching the Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Medieval Europe