Professor Anne Hunnell Chen Recognized by Wikimedia
Professor Anne Hunnell Chen.
Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture Anne Hunnell Chen was recognized with the 2025 Award for “Outstanding Professional Advancing Open Access to Cultural Heritage” from the Wikimedia Foundation. This international award was given for Chen’s work on the International Digital Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA), which she founded. IDEA is an initiative using digital tools and a Linked Open Data set (LOD) to facilitate archaeological knowledge about the Dura-Europos site in Syria, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The awarding committee said, “Anne Chen’s work is worthy of the highest recognition, by the advanced use of LOD methods, the sheer scope of collaboration between the digital humanities and across Wikimedia projects, and the focus on an immensely important and underrepresented cultural geography like Syria.” They also recognized the importance of her work at the present moment, “when the organizations that helped fund this work are currently being severely defunded.”
The Art History and Visual Culture Program at Bard introduces students to visual material across a broad range of periods and societies.
Post Date: 11-18-2025
The awarding committee said, “Anne Chen’s work is worthy of the highest recognition, by the advanced use of LOD methods, the sheer scope of collaboration between the digital humanities and across Wikimedia projects, and the focus on an immensely important and underrepresented cultural geography like Syria.” They also recognized the importance of her work at the present moment, “when the organizations that helped fund this work are currently being severely defunded.”
The Art History and Visual Culture Program at Bard introduces students to visual material across a broad range of periods and societies.
Post Date: 11-18-2025