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Victoria Szabo serves as Research Professor of Art, Art History, & Visual Studies at Duke University's Trinity College of Arts & Sciences since 2019. She additionally holds appointments as Research Professor in Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies (2021-present) and Core Faculty in Innovation & Entrepreneurship (2018-present). Currently, she directs the PhD Program in Computational Media, Arts & Cultures and serves as Associate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society.
Education:
- Ph.D., University of Rochester (2000)
- M.A., University of Rochester (1996)
- M.A., Indiana University at Bloomington (1992)
- B.A., Williams College (1990)
Professor Szabo's research focuses on the intersection of digital humanities with spatial, immersive, and interactive media forms, histories, and cultures. Her current projects emphasize extended reality (XR) experiences in urban, exurban, and exhibition contexts, with particular attention to location-based augmented reality (AR), digital storytelling, and artificial intelligence applications. She approaches these technologies through critical and creative lenses, examining how they reshape cultural heritage interpretation and public engagement.
Her publications reveal a consistent trajectory toward establishing methodological frameworks for evaluating digital humanities scholarship in emerging media formats, particularly XR. Her work bridges technical implementation with humanistic inquiry, developing standards that honor both scientific and humanities values in digital scholarship.
Major Awards and Recognition:
- Director of Duke Digital Humanities Initiative (John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, 2015 with renewal in 2018)
- Co-Director of FHI GreaterThanGames Lab (Franklin Humanities Institute, 2011)
- Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship (University of Virginia Scholar's Lab/NEH, 2010)
- RENCI Visualization Grant (2010)
- Exhibiting Hidden Histories grant from J. Paul Getty Trust (2022-2024)
- American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellow (2020-2021)
As Director of Graduate Studies for the PhD Program in Computational Media, Arts & Cultures, Professor Szabo oversees doctoral education at the intersection of technology and humanities. Her major grants demonstrate significant external funding for projects exploring digital cultural heritage, with recent support from the J. Paul Getty Trust and Johnson C. Smith University focusing on XR applications for public engagement with historical narratives.
Professor Szabo manages staff and resources in the Computational Media, Arts & Cultures Labs at Smith Warehouse and co-directs the FHI GreaterThanGames Lab. Her leadership extends to Bass Connections projects like 'Building Duke: The Architectural History of Duke Campus' which employs digital tools to document campus evolution through interactive 3D models and augmented reality tours.
