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

2021 - 2022 Digital Humanities Summer Fellow

Jin-Kyu smiling at the camera in a blue sweater with blurred book stacks in the background

Jin-Kyu Jung (he/him/his)

Associate Professor

Unmapping and Remaking Digital Health Data (in collaboration with Nora Kenworthy, School of Nursing & Health Studies)

Crowdfunding is a mediated digital archive of corporate interests and also safety net failures. We propose to remake crowdfunding data more meaningfully and ethically, and unmap that re-made data in order to make its nuances more accessible, visible, and publicly engaged. We will use digital humanities tools to “disrupt” the affects, narratives and ontologies of crowdfunding platforms by creating transformative ontogenetic spaces for new affective engagements, knowledges, and narratives to emerge.