Digital Humanities Summer Fellowships

scholars in the fellowship program having a lively discussion at the conference table

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.

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2026 - 2027 Digital Humanities Summer Fellows

Mal Ahern looks at a roll of film that has been unwound.
Assistant Professor
Cinema & Media Studies
Ashfaq Ahmed
PhD Candidate
Jackson School of International Studies
Vanessa de Veritch Woodside
Associate Professor
School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Tacoma
Andrew Hedding
Assistant Professor
Linguistics
Meichun Liu
Assistant Professor
School of Art + Art History + Design
Nikoloz Nadirashvili
PhD Candidate
School of Art + Art History + Design
Paul Jason Perez
PhD Candidate
Information School
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PhD Candidate
Asian Languages & Literature
Jingrui Yan
PhD Candidate
Cinema & Media Studies

2021 - 2022 Digital Humanities Summer Fellow

Jin-Kyu smiling at the camera in a blue sweater with blurred book stacks in the background

Jin-Kyu Jung (he/him/his)

Associate Professor

Unmapping and Remaking Digital Health Data (in collaboration with Nora Kenworthy, School of Nursing & Health Studies)

Crowdfunding is a mediated digital archive of corporate interests and also safety net failures. We propose to remake crowdfunding data more meaningfully and ethically, and unmap that re-made data in order to make its nuances more accessible, visible, and publicly engaged. We will use digital humanities tools to “disrupt” the affects, narratives and ontologies of crowdfunding platforms by creating transformative ontogenetic spaces for new affective engagements, knowledges, and narratives to emerge.