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. 

Note: applicants 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. 

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).

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.

An ad hoc committee will be convened to review proposals.

Criteria

Awards are based predominantly on the scholarly merit of the applications. The level of preparation demonstrated by applicants to undertake the project will also be considered.

Terms of Award

The fellowship carries a stipend of $7,500.

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 online courses presented at the annual Digital Humanities Summer Institute. A budget and a rationale for these expenses must be included in the proposal.

Projects do not necessarily have to be completed during the summer fellowship term.

Summer Residency

In-person participation in the 6 weekly late afternoon meetings of the Digital Humanities Commons is an expectation of the program. This fellowship is not appropriate for those whose projects require time away from the university during the period of the meetings of the fellows. In Summer 2025, the meetings are anticipated to take place from the beginning of A term through the end of July.