Digital and Data Humanities Summer Fellowships
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.
2026 - 2027 Summer Fellows
2022 - 2023 Digital Humanities Summer Fellow
Jasmine Mahmoud (she/her/hers)
Digitizing Black Curatorial Practice: Dr. James Washington, Jr. at MOHAI
Digitizing Black Curatorial Practice supports the Winter 2023 exhibition at MOHAI about the works and world of Dr. James Washington, Jr., the Black Mississippi-born artist who spent most of his life living and working in Seattle’s Central District. Rooting this project is the development of a microseminar -- engaging in Black and Digital Curatorial Studies -- to query how digital tools animate and extend the exhibition’s display, history, aesthetics, and community engagement, and how interactive spaces themselves act as sites of archival work, historiography, and anti-racist curatorial practice.