“Parthenon at Illinois” Digital Humanities Project Launches with Support from the Campus Research Board
May 13, 2026
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A group of scholars and professionals from across the University of Illinois campus has come together to create a new digital humanities project: Parthenon at Illinois. The team includes two Library faculty, Mary Ton, Assistant Professor and Digital Humanities Librarian, and Elias Petrou, Assistant Professor and Classical Studies Librarian, along with Victoria Austen, Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, and Christa Deacy-Quinn, Senior Collections Manager at the Spurlock Museum. The project has received a $30,000 financial award from the Illinois Campus Research Board, which was established in 1932 to serve the campus as a conduit for the distribution of funding to support faculty members’ research projects and creative activities.