Digital 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 Digital Humanities Summer Fellows
2018 - 2019 Digital Humanities Summer Fellow
Verena Kick (she/her/hers)
Revolutionizing the Public Sphere: The Invasion of the Working Class in the Media of the Weimar Republic
My dissertation employs a combination of methods that also apply to my digital project. At the core of each chapter and my digital project (a Scalar book) is a close analysis of the primary work. I focus on the interaction of text with visual media and concentrate on the triangulation of the essayists, their reader/viewer and the portrayal of a German public sphere. In my second chapter, that forms the basis for my digital project, I investigate how text-image-combinations can be understood as functional montages that educate the reader to view photographs less as authentic documents for mass consumption, but as powerful means to change the public sphere.