Membership

Join ACH to Support a Professional Community for Digital Humanities

Founded in 1978, ACH provides a welcoming intellectual community and support for professional activities across the range of DH disciplines, practices, and cultures. As a member organization of ADHO (the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations), ACH connects the international DH community through conferences, discussion, and publications. Your ACH membership helps to fund student bursaries, open-access journal publication, mentoring services, development microgrants, and other important DH initiatives such as the ACH Guidelines for Assessment of Digital Scholarship in Tenure and Promotion

Membership Levels

Join ACH by visiting our membership site and selecting the appropriate option:

ACH Membership
Regular members ($40)
Student and senior members ($26)

Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) Membership
Joint membership in all constituents of ADHO ($40)

Having problems signing up? Email membership@ach.org

Benefits of Membership

Membership in ACH is open to anyone with an interest in digital humanities. Benefits include:

• The satisfaction of supporting a robust professional community for DH scholars and practitioners
• Discounted members-only subscriptions to Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (4+ issues per year)
• A variety of benefits targeted especially to students (whose membership fees are a very affordable $26!) and junior scholars, including:
  • Eligibility for travel funding and ACH bursaries at the annual DH Conference <!–and other events, like DHSI (Digital Humanities Summer Institute)

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  • Mentorship opportunities connecting you directly with friendly, experienced DHers in our community
  • DH Conference newcomer dinners to welcome first-time conference attendees
• Ongoing discounts of up to 40% off of list price of DH books from university presses such as University of Minnesota Press
• Eligibility for occasional support, as available, of conferences and other events relevant to the Digital Humanities, including the biannual ACH Conference
• DHQ (Digital Humanities Quarterly), a free, open-access, online digital humanities journal supported by your membership fees
• Digital Humanities Questions and Answers (@DHanswers), a free and friendly resource for the DH community
• Significantly reduced registration fees at conferences sponsored by ADHO, the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (as well as many other events)
• Opportunities to meet and work with a wide range of DH scholars and practitioners in our worldwide community
• The chance to get involved and make a difference in the research, scholarship, and working lives of digital humanists

Getting Help with Your Membership

A FAQ is maintained by ADHO for all its member organizations. If you have any questions about ACH membership, please contact our membership officers.

Some Membership Numbers

ACH is a small but committed and vibrant professional association. Between 2015 and 2020, our membership has held between 350 and 460 individual members, among the 600-800 members of the various ADHO constituent organizations.

ACH members hail from 21 countries worldwide, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Japan, Ireland, Spain, Finland, Mexico, Switzerland, Norway, the Netherlands, Italy, France, Belgium, New Zealand, the Russian Federation, Portugal, Luxembourg, and China. In 2012, North American members represent about 75% of the whole, with 17% of ACH members hailing from European countries and 8% from the Asian/Pacific region.

We welcome new members from all over the world, and encourage you to contact membership@ach.org with any questions, or to let us know how ACH and ADHO can better serve you.