Todd Presner

日耳曼语言，比较文学和犹太研究系教授  教育家 作家 数字人文学科的创始人

对有些人来说，历史不只存在于书中

人文学科副教授Todd Presner通过向静态的主题添加交互式的诠释改变我们理解文化和历史的方式。他的Hypercities项目是一个研究和教育平台，给用户提供了一种身临其境的3维体验，用户能够探索过去和未来的城市的街道，建筑和风景。这样情况下，他融合了地理空间，数字出版暂时性和技术媒体，从而开创了数字人文学科。

他是第一个创建交互式，超媒体的教学环境的教授，这帮他在“数字媒体和学习”方面获得麦克阿瑟奖，他也是第一个荣获“谷歌数字人文学科研究奖”的人。

Todd Presner

Professor of Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature & Jewish Studies

For some, history is not in the books.

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–pioneering the digital humanities.

He’s also the first professor to provide an interactive, hypermedia educational environment–earning him a MacArthur prize for “digital media and learning,” as well as becoming the first recipient of a Google Digital Humanities Research Award.