Digital Humanities Summer Fellowship

Eligibility

UW doctoral students who have completed their master's degrees by the deadline for application and who will receive no other funding during the term of the award. Graduate students who have already received digital humanities fellowships may apply again to continue work in the digital humanities. Please contact the Simpson Center if you have questions about your eligibility. Note: graduate students who are interested in the Digital Humanities Summer Fellowship and the Barclay Simpson Scholars in Public Fellowship may only apply for one of these opportunities in any given funding round.

Description

The Digital Humanities Summer Fellowships for Graduate Students support scholars whose projects use digital technologies in innovative and intensive ways and/or explore the historical, social, aesthetic, and cross-cultural implications of digital cultures. We have expanded our call for proposals to also include projects focused on digital humanities pedagogy.

Digital projects may be conceived as a complement to a print project, and projects that incorporate digital components into dissertations are strongly encouraged. For example, we encourage proposals from students who are experimenting with videographic criticism (see [in]Transition: A Media Commons Project).

Projects in digital humanities pedagogy might explore any number of platforms and tools for use in (and beyond) the undergraduate classroom. What use might students make of digital technologies for exploring and creating online archives and exhibits, timelines and visualizations, mapping, and multi-modal storytelling and research, including podcasts and rich video and image content?      

Joint applications for collaborative projects are encouraged. This may take the form of two doctoral students working together, each with a full fellowship, or one faculty member and one doctoral student working together, each with a full fellowship.

Criteria

Awards are based predominantly on the scholarly merit of the applications as well as the level of preparation demonstrated by applicants to undertake and complete the project. Projects do not necessarily have to be completed during the summer fellowship term.

Terms of Award

Students will receive $7,500 in summer salary (including benefits).

Students are encouraged to request additional project support of up to $2,500. Funds may be used, for example, to support travel to present the research in question at a conference or to enroll in courses presented at the University of Victoria’s well-known Digital Humanities Summer Institute, held annually in June. Funds may also be used to purchase digital tools, including software, licensing agreements, etc.; it should be noted that with regard to digital tools, it is required that major hardware remains in the Simpson Center. A budget and a rationale for these expenses must be included in the proposal.

Summer Residency

Participation in the six to eight weekly late afternoon meetings of the Digital Humanities Commons is required; this fellowship is not appropriate for those whose projects require time away from the university in the summer.