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
Zhifan Sheng
PhD Candidate
Asian Languages & Literature
Jingrui Yan
PhD Candidate
Cinema & Media Studies

2019 - 2020 Digital Humanities Summer Fellow

Portrait of Ellen Y. Chang standing in front of a blurred background and wearing a blue collared shirt.

Ellen Y. Chang (she/her/hers)

Graduate Student

Untitled Vignettes: Multisensory Encounter, Audiovisual Symphony, and the Contemporary Multimedia Art of Taiwan

Untitled Vignettes is a multisensory journey that traces the footsteps of the social movements taking place in Taiwan that rebel against social issues and injustices rampant on the island. The site-specific audio walk and its digital companion audiovisual book interweave spontaneous reflection with history, personal recollection, music, cinematic soundtracks, and local soundscapes. It turns the virtual encounter initially mediated by the cyberspace into an interdimensional experience through a series of audiovisual storytelling, listening, and viewing.