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
Nora Kenworthy
Unmapping and Remaking Digital Health Data (in collaboration with Jin-Kyu Jung, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences)
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.