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
2022 - 2023 Digital Humanities Summer Fellow
Leah Rubinsky (she/her/hers)
Cuéntame, Mamá: An Auditory Archive of Mothering Across Borders
This Digital Humanities project compiles ethnographic audio narratives of stories and sounds of mothering to be recorded on a Chester Fritz-funded research trip to Colombia in the spring quarter of 2022. The material will support a scholarly podcast chapter of Leah's dissertation on motherhood, memory, and migration in circum-Caribbean women’s contemporary fiction. These recordings will be assembled into a digital archive of anecdotes and stories serving to amplify the voices of Latinx women mothering or being mothered across histories of displacement and migration.