There's a lot of innovative research projects that you can make with geospatial information systems. One example of this is story maps. A few examples of different story maps are below. To get support for your GIS related projects, visit the CGA located on the 2nd floor of Swem library.
Geographical Research in the Digital Humanities by
The richness of social and cultural theory in the humanities offers countless opportunities for using theory-informed concepts in data-based analysis workflows. The contributors to this volume thus encourage further research utilizing out-of-the-box models and approaches to space and place in the field of Digital Humanities. The collection follows the two complementary goals of providing promising conceptualisations of space and place for a broad audience from Digital Humanities, and of presenting current work in Digital Humanities using different conceptualisations of space and place or offering innovative methods for their analysis.