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
Yandong Li (he/him/his)
Mediating Energy Past and Present: Infrastructures of Standard Oil
This digital curation will serve as a resource for the general public and scholars who share interests in the emerging academic fields of energy humanities and media infrastructure. Specifically, this online project uses the history of Standard Oil to rethink the histories of media and infrastructure in California and China. By borrowing methods from the fields of (media) infrastructure studies, energy humanities, and research on media and the environment, this project emerges as a complement to my dissertation project on the history of petroleum infrastructures. This digital platform will contain three components: curations of images and films, an interactive map, and a collection of recent scholarly works.