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
Jocelyn Moon (she/her/hers)
Going Mobile: Reciprocating Field Research with Sharable Media
In the course of this project, I seek to create several short digital stories based on my ethnographic research about an instrument from the borderlands of Zimbabwe and Mozambique called matepe. The purpose of these videos is to share the ideas of my dissertation project with the people in Northeastern Zimbabwe who participated in the research. I will share them primarily through private social networks on mobile phones as well as through my research blog in order to reach diasporic, community music, and academic audiences.