Digital Humanities Summer Fellowships Cohort Archive
The Simpson Center offers annual summer fellowships for faculty and doctoral 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
UW faculty and doctoral candidates are eligible to apply either on an individual basis or in teams for Digital Humanities Summer Fellowships every fall. Where research in the humanities is often undertaken by a single scholar, this program enables faculty and graduate students to collaborate with each other as well as with designers, information technologists, and librarians. Applications from scholars using the open-source multimodal authoring and publishing platforms are particularly encouraged; the Simpson Center is an affiliate of the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture. Review additional eligibility and application information for faculty and graduate students.
Up to 8 scholars—4 faculty and 4 doctoral students—will be selected each year; they will be required to be in residence for 6-8 weeks during the summer and will meet weekly to share their research. In addition to summer salary, each will have a research budget that can be used for expenses such as hourly support and software.
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.
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
2014 - 2015 Digital Humanities Summer Fellow
P. Joshua Griffin (he/him/his)
Archiving the Future: Politics and Possibilities for Climate-Induced Relocation in Northwest Alaska
This dissertation is a multi-sited ethnography of climate change that considers experience, affect, and ethics in an age of planetary uncertainty. The Summer Digital Humanities Commons Fellowship will support this project's continued collaboration with ReLocate Kivalina (ReLocate), a multi-disciplinary research collective working with the Native Village of Kivalina and the City of Kivalina to support a culturally specific climate-induced village relocation. Through two years of pilot fieldwork and community consultation, several themes have emerged as critical to transforming the relocation process. First, there exists a politics of knowledge and representation that consistently works against the community’s efforts to be heard and understood by governmental agencies. Secondly, the project's partners in Kivalina have identified the need to situate the contemporary relocation process in the context of history, culture, and place. With these objectives in mind, this proposal will support the project's work on an interactive, multimedia, open-data archive of Kivalina's recent relocation history, and a Scalar project rendering visible "A History of Dwelling-Site Selection in the Kivalina Region" over the last 100 years.