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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2025 - 2026 Digital Humanities Summer Fellows

Paul Atkins
Professor
Asian Languages & Literature
Adrienne Mackey
Assistant Professor
School of Drama
Anna Preus
Assistant Professor
English
Mark Letteney
Assistant Professor
History
Rhema Hokama
Assistant Professor
English
Runjie Wang
Graduate Student
Cinema & Media Studies
Siddharth Bhogra
Graduate Student
English
Sikose Sibabalwe Mjali
Graduate Student
English
Herman Chau
Doctoral Candidate
Mathematics
Nikki Yeboah
Assistant Professor
School of Drama

2014 - 2015 Digital Humanities Summer Fellow

Portrait of Michelle Habell-Pallán

Michelle Habell-Pallán (she/her/hers)

Professor

This collaboration with Sonnet Retman brings together scholars/archivists, musicians, media-makers, performers, artists, and activists to document and archive the role of women and popular music in the creation of cultural scenes and social justice movements in the Americas and beyond.

During summer 2014 the Women Who Rock team will: build out the archive by processing digital assets and materials; theorize the use of keywords as an intervention in knowledge production; create effective meta-data information that allows for more nuanced and responsive archive searches; devise an effective workflow plan, including individual roles and responsibilities; and develop a vision of use and access based on our exploration of CONTENTdm 6.