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Victoria Szabo

Research Professor of Art, Art History, & Visual Studies
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Box 90766, Smith Warehouse, Bay 10, Durham, NC 27708
114 S Buchanan Blvd Bay 10, Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours Spring 2023: Fridays 9-11AM in Teams and by appointment (email)  

Research Interests


Critical and creative approaches to digital and computational media through annotated archives and exhibitions, location-based/urban experience design, immersive media and interactive storytelling and critique, artists' games. Special interest in future of higher education, libraries, museums, in the digital age.

Selected Grants


Exhibiting Hidden Histories: Bringing Projects to Publics through Digital Exhibitions and XR

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by J. Paul Getty Trust · 2022 - 2024

A Virtual Sense of Place - African American Urbanism

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Johnson C. Smith University · 2021 - 2024

American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellow

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Council of Learned Societies · 2020 - 2021

Virtual and Augmented Reality for Digital Humanities Institute (VARDHI)

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities · 2017 - 2020

Advanced Topics in Digital Art History: 3D and (Geo)Spatial Networks

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by J. Paul Getty Trust · 2017 - 2020

Exhibiting Hidden Histories: Bringing Projects to Publics through Digital Exhibitions and XR

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by J. Paul Getty Trust · 2022 - 2024

A Virtual Sense of Place - African American Urbanism

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Johnson C. Smith University · 2021 - 2024

American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellow

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Council of Learned Societies · 2020 - 2021

Virtual and Augmented Reality for Digital Humanities Institute (VARDHI)

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities · 2017 - 2020

Advanced Topics in Digital Art History: 3D and (Geo)Spatial Networks

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by J. Paul Getty Trust · 2017 - 2020

Fellowships, Gifts, and Supported Research


Reckoning with Race, Racism, and the History of the American South Initiative: The Community of Ar-Razzaq (“The Provider”) in Durham · 2021 Co-Lead · Duke Office of the Provost The Community of Ar-Razzaq (“The Provider”) in Durham: Recalling the Transformational History of North Carolina’s First Mosque. https://facultyadvancement.duke.edu/new-faculty-research-explore-race-south-diverse-angles

External Relationships


  • ACM SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia
  • John R. Evan Leaders Fund Innovation Canada
  • University of Padua, Italy
  • Washington University in St. Louis

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