You never quite know what historical treasures you’ll find when you peruse Madison Historical: The Online Encyclopedia and Digital Archive […]

While her scholarly interests have evolved through her academic career, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Jessica DeSpain’s commitment to work rooted […]

The Digital East St. Louis project is featured in the new special issue of PUBLIC: A Journal of Imagining America. […]

Student leaders from over a dozen middle and high schools in Madison County attended the second summit on Jan. 9 […]

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded Southern Illinois University Edwardsville a two-year $100,000 Humanities Access Grant for […]

Dr. Jessica DeSpain and IRIS scholars lead digital humanities clubs for students from Madison and Venice as part of the […]

This summer, local students have been exploring East St. Louis’s history and culture in a program run by the IRIS […]

Hi all!  My name is Katie Knowles, and I am the new Lab Technician for the IRIS Center.  I am […]

Of the more than 6,000 languages spoken in the world today, only about 20% of these have established and community-embraced […]

On January 28th, IRIS hosted its annual open house. Faculty and students from across the university came to the Center to […]