Digital Humanities Summer Fellowships Cohort Archive
The Simpson Center offers annual summer fellowships for faculty and graduate students to pursue research projects that use digital technologies in innovative and intensive ways and/or explore the historical, social, aesthetic, and cross-cultural implications of digital cultures. The program has three primary goals:
- To animate knowledge—using rich media, dynamic databases, and visualization tools
- To circulate knowledge—among diverse publics
- To understand digital culture—historically, theoretically, aesthetically, and generatively
The Simpson Center gratefully acknowledges the support of a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as well as many donors to the endowment which is underwriting these fellowships.
2025 - 2026 Summer Fellows
2024 - 2025 Summer Fellows
2023 - 2024 Summer Fellows
2022 - 2023 Summer Fellows
2021 - 2022 Summer Fellows
2020 - 2021 Summer Fellows
2019 - 2020 Summer Fellows
2018 - 2019 Summer Fellows
2017 - 2018 Summer Fellows
2016 - 2017 Summer Fellows
2015 - 2016 Summer Fellows
2014 - 2015 Summer Fellows
2022 - 2023 Digital Humanities Summer Fellow
Leah Rubinsky (she/her/hers)
Cuéntame, Mamá: An Auditory Archive of Mothering Across Borders
This Digital Humanities project compiles ethnographic audio narratives of stories and sounds of mothering to be recorded on a Chester Fritz-funded research trip to Colombia in the spring quarter of 2022. The material will support a scholarly podcast chapter of Leah's dissertation on motherhood, memory, and migration in circum-Caribbean women’s contemporary fiction. These recordings will be assembled into a digital archive of anecdotes and stories serving to amplify the voices of Latinx women mothering or being mothered across histories of displacement and migration.