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.
2025 - 2026 Digital Humanities Summer Fellows
2021 - 2022 Digital Humanities Summer Fellow
Maya Angela Eipe Smith (she/her/hers)
Reclaiming Venus: Story Map Walking Tour
This multimodal project relies on an ethnographic memoir, a documentary film, and an ArcGIS story map walking tour to bring the Rock and Roll contributions of unsung hero Alvenia Bridges to life. Her incredible story is best told using multiple formats to display a living archive, which includes over 30 hours of interviews, 200 photographs, and countless pieces of memorabilia.