Dr. Troy Smith of the History Department is the 2024 College of Arts & Sciences Innovative Teaching Award recipient. Dr. Smith is recognized for his Digital Humanities course which is a key part of the Digital Humanities minor. After an introduction to the approaches and tools of digital humanities, students worked as an interdisciplinary team to produce a digital product. They produced an interactive county map of Tennessee that could be used to access statistics and relevant news stories about every death penalty case in the state’s history by location of crime. At the end of the course, the students received Rural Reimagined grant funding to add additional information to the map.